Religious Education, Brigham Young University, United States of America.
Religious Education, Brigham Young University, United States of America.
J Affect Disord. 2023 Dec 1;342:182-191. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2023.09.011. Epub 2023 Sep 17.
Religiousness is often related to positive mental health for university students. Yet this may not hold for sexual and gender minority (SGM) students at religious universities. Some studies find religiousness protective for SGM students, some find no relationship, and some find religiousness a risk.
Using the Healthy Minds data (n = 135,344) student mental health (suicide ideation and anxiety) was compared across religious universities (Catholic, evangelical, and "Other Christian") and nonreligious universities, examining moderation by student religiousness and SGM identity.
Overall, there were no anxiety or ideation differences across religious and nonreligious universities except that students at "Other Christian" universities had slightly higher ideation than those at nonreligious universities. However, moderation analysis found SGMs at nonreligious universities at higher risk for anxiety compared to those at "Other Christian" universities. Student religious importance predicted lower ideation and anxiety across universities: though students for whom religion was unimportant were at greater risk for anxiety at nonreligious versus Catholic universities. Compared to SGMs at nonreligious universities, SGMs at evangelical universities who did not participate in extracurricular religious activities were at risk for ideation, but risk was low for SGMs who did participate.
Data were cross-sectional. Analyses were unable to control for whether students dropped out of a university.
There were few overall differences between religious and nonreligious universities. Though moderation found attending a religious university either a protective or risk factor for some groups. The relations between being SGM and mental health should be considered concert with religiousness.
宗教信仰通常与大学生的积极心理健康有关。然而，对于在宗教大学就读的性少数群体（SGM）学生来说，情况可能并非如此。一些研究发现宗教信仰对 SGM 学生有保护作用，一些研究则没有发现这种关系，还有一些研究发现宗教信仰是一种风险因素。
利用健康思维数据（n=135344），比较了宗教大学（天主教、福音派和“其他基督教”）和非宗教大学学生的心理健康状况（自杀意念和焦虑），检验了学生宗教信仰和 SGM 身份的调节作用。
总体而言，除了“其他基督教”大学的学生自杀意念略高于非宗教大学的学生外，宗教大学和非宗教大学之间在焦虑或自杀意念方面没有差异。然而，调节分析发现，与“其他基督教”大学相比，非宗教大学的 SGM 学生患焦虑症的风险更高。学生宗教重要性预测了不同大学学生的自杀意念和焦虑程度：尽管对宗教不重要的学生在非宗教大学比在天主教大学患焦虑症的风险更高。与非宗教大学的 SGM 学生相比，不参加课外宗教活动的福音派大学 SGM 学生有自杀意念的风险，但参加课外宗教活动的 SGM 学生风险较低。
数据是横断面的。分析无法控制学生是否从大学辍学。
宗教大学和非宗教大学之间几乎没有总体差异。尽管调节分析发现，对一些群体来说，上宗教大学既是保护因素，也是风险因素。SGM 与心理健康之间的关系应该与宗教信仰一起考虑。
