Department of Social Work and Social Administration, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Department of Psychiatry, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; Division of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.
J Formos Med Assoc. 2020 Jan;119(1 Pt 1):150-156. doi: 10.1016/j.jfma.2019.03.011. Epub 2019 Apr 3.
The aims of the study were to examine the role of mental health in peoples' attitude toward same-sex marriage in Taiwan, as well as the moderating effects of gender, age, and sexual orientation on the association between mental health and attitude toward same-sex marriage.
In total, 3235 participants were recruited through a Facebook advertisement. Each participant completed a questionnaire assessing attitude toward same-sex marriage and a 5-item Brief Symptom Rating Scale (BSRS-5). Multiple regression analysis was performed to investigate the association between mental health and attitude toward same-sex marriage.
Poor mental health was significantly associated with a low level of support for same-sex marriage. Age and sexual orientation moderated the association between mental health state and support for same-sex marriage. A significant association between poor mental health and a low level of support for same-sex marriage was observed only in older participants but not in younger participants. Moreover, a significant association between poor mental health and a low level of support for same-sex marriage was indicated only in heterosexual participants but not in non-heterosexual participants.
Our findings suggest that poor mental health was significantly associated with opposition to same-sex marriage. This relationship is more pronounced among older and heterosexual people.
本研究旨在探讨心理健康在台湾民众对同性婚姻的态度中的作用，以及性别、年龄和性取向对心理健康与对同性婚姻的态度之间的关系的调节作用。
共招募了 3235 名参与者，通过 Facebook 广告进行招募。每位参与者完成了一份关于对同性婚姻的态度和 5 项Brief Symptom Rating Scale（BSRS-5）的问卷。采用多元回归分析来研究心理健康与对同性婚姻的态度之间的关系。
心理健康状况较差与对同性婚姻的支持度较低显著相关。年龄和性取向调节了心理健康状况与对同性婚姻的支持之间的关系。只有在年龄较大的参与者中，而不是在年龄较小的参与者中，心理健康状况较差与对同性婚姻的支持度较低之间存在显著关联。此外，只有在异性恋参与者中，而不是在非异性恋参与者中，心理健康状况较差与对同性婚姻的支持度较低之间存在显著关联。
我们的研究结果表明，心理健康状况较差与反对同性婚姻显著相关。这种关系在年龄较大和异性恋者中更为明显。
