Health and happiness among homosexual couples in Europe

Data from five waves (2002–10) of the European Social Survey were examined to see the extent to which heterosexual and homosexual couples differ in their health and happiness. Homosexual people had lower levels of self-rated health and happiness. We suggest that those who experience discrimination a...

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Autores principales: van den Akker, Hanneke, Blaauw, Joris, Lubbers, Marcel, van der Ploeg, Rozemarijn, Scheepers, Peer, Verbakel, Ellen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2013
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Thematic Paper
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6735100/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31507723
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description Data from five waves (2002–10) of the European Social Survey were examined to see the extent to which heterosexual and homosexual couples differ in their health and happiness. Homosexual people had lower levels of self-rated health and happiness. We suggest that those who experience discrimination are more strongly integrated in their gay community, which, in turn, may bring positive effects in terms of happiness due to a sense of belonging, but may be accompanied by the specific health risks associated with this community.
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spelling pubmed-67351002019-09-10 Health and happiness among homosexual couples in Europe van den Akker, Hanneke Blaauw, Joris Lubbers, Marcel van der Ploeg, Rozemarijn Scheepers, Peer Verbakel, Ellen Int Psychiatry Thematic Paper Data from five waves (2002–10) of the European Social Survey were examined to see the extent to which heterosexual and homosexual couples differ in their health and happiness. Homosexual people had lower levels of self-rated health and happiness. We suggest that those who experience discrimination are more strongly integrated in their gay community, which, in turn, may bring positive effects in terms of happiness due to a sense of belonging, but may be accompanied by the specific health risks associated with this community. The Royal College of Psychiatrists 2013-05-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6735100/ /pubmed/31507723 Text en © 2013 The Royal College of Psychiatrists http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Non-Commercial, No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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