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Mental health differences between German gay and bisexual men and population-based controls
BACKGROUND: International studies have revealed that gay and bisexual men present more mental health problems than the general male population. Furthermore, there is evidence that minority stress predicts mental health problems in gay and bisexual men. The aim of the present study is to provide init...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5521135/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28732497 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-017-1435-7 |
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author | Sattler, Frank A. Franke, Gabriele H. Christiansen, Hanna |
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description | BACKGROUND: International studies have revealed that gay and bisexual men present more mental health problems than the general male population. Furthermore, there is evidence that minority stress predicts mental health problems in gay and bisexual men. The aim of the present study is to provide initial data on mental health differences in Germany and to analyze the effect of minority stress. METHODS: Mental health data on n = 1903 German gay and bisexual men and n = 958 men from a population-based sample were assessed using a shortened version of the SCL-90-S. The mental health of the two samples was compared. Furthermore, a linear regression was conducted for the gay and bisexual sample: mental health was used as the criterion and minority stressors as predictors. RESULTS: As compared to our population sample, gay and bisexual men demonstrated more mental health problems with a moderate effect size. In the regression, minority stress predicted mental health problems in the gay and bisexual sample. CONCLUSIONS: We observed pronounced mental health differences between gay and bisexual men versus the population sample. These differences could be at least partly due to the minority stress gay and bisexual men face. Research should focus on how to reduce and cope with minority stress. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12888-017-1435-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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spelling | pubmed-55211352017-07-21 Mental health differences between German gay and bisexual men and population-based controls Sattler, Frank A. Franke, Gabriele H. Christiansen, Hanna BMC Psychiatry Research Article BACKGROUND: International studies have revealed that gay and bisexual men present more mental health problems than the general male population. Furthermore, there is evidence that minority stress predicts mental health problems in gay and bisexual men. The aim of the present study is to provide initial data on mental health differences in Germany and to analyze the effect of minority stress. METHODS: Mental health data on n = 1903 German gay and bisexual men and n = 958 men from a population-based sample were assessed using a shortened version of the SCL-90-S. The mental health of the two samples was compared. Furthermore, a linear regression was conducted for the gay and bisexual sample: mental health was used as the criterion and minority stressors as predictors. RESULTS: As compared to our population sample, gay and bisexual men demonstrated more mental health problems with a moderate effect size. In the regression, minority stress predicted mental health problems in the gay and bisexual sample. CONCLUSIONS: We observed pronounced mental health differences between gay and bisexual men versus the population sample. These differences could be at least partly due to the minority stress gay and bisexual men face. Research should focus on how to reduce and cope with minority stress. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12888-017-1435-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2017-07-21 /pmc/articles/PMC5521135/ /pubmed/28732497 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-017-1435-7 Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Sattler, Frank A. Franke, Gabriele H. Christiansen, Hanna Mental health differences between German gay and bisexual men and population-based controls |
title | Mental health differences between German gay and bisexual men and population-based controls |
title_full | Mental health differences between German gay and bisexual men and population-based controls |
title_fullStr | Mental health differences between German gay and bisexual men and population-based controls |
title_full_unstemmed | Mental health differences between German gay and bisexual men and population-based controls |
title_short | Mental health differences between German gay and bisexual men and population-based controls |
title_sort | mental health differences between german gay and bisexual men and population-based controls |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5521135/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28732497 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12888-017-1435-7 |
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