Juuri valmistuneen tutkimuksen mustat lesbot, homomiehet, ja biseksuaalit ovat psyykkisesti terveempiä kuin hetero-valkoiset.
Heidän keskuudessaan on vähemmän mielenterveyden häiriötä ja itsemurhayrityksiä kuin muilla.
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Black gays, lesbians mentally healthier than whites
Last Updated: 2007-10-05 13:00:59 -0400 (Reuters Health)
By Anne Harding
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Black lesbians, gay men and bisexuals are less likely to suffer from mental disorders than their white or Latino counterparts, a new study shows.
The findings call into question the "double jeopardy" theory, which argues that black homosexuals would actually be at greater risk of such problems due to suffering both racial discrimination and homophobia.
"It doesn't seem to confirm those social stress theories," Dr. Ilan H. Meyer of Columbia University in New York City, the study's lead author, told Reuters Health. Perhaps, he suggested, black individuals who are homosexual have dealt with racial discrimination from an early age, and have thus developed healthier ways of coping with discrimination based on sexual orientation later in life.
Meyer and his team sought to better understand the prevalence of mental disorders and suicide attempts among homosexual individuals based on ethnicity by surveying 388 lesbian, gay and bisexual people who identified themselves as black, white or Latino.
Latino and white study participants had a similar prevalence of mental disorders, but blacks had significantly less. This mirrors the general population, Meyer noted, in which blacks overall are less likely to have mental health problems than whites.
However, black and Latino study participants were more likely than whites to have attempted suicide. Such suicide attempts may have been more closely related to stress and trauma surrounding coming out -- attempts were made, on average, when individuals were 17.5 years old -- than underlying mental health problems, Meyers suggests.
"A lot of blacks and Latinos did report all kinds of events that surrounded their coming out," he noted, for example being kicked out of the house and rejected by their families.
On a more positive note, the researchers had hypothesized that younger study participants would be less likely to have mental disorders than older people given that they grew up in a generally more tolerant environment, and this was indeed the case.
SOURCE: American Journal of Public Health, November 2007.
Copyright © 2007 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable for any errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon. Reuters and the Reuters sphere logo are registered trademarks and trademarks of the Reuters group of companies around the world.
Heidän keskuudessaan on vähemmän mielenterveyden häiriötä ja itsemurhayrityksiä kuin muilla.
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Black gays, lesbians mentally healthier than whites
Last Updated: 2007-10-05 13:00:59 -0400 (Reuters Health)
By Anne Harding
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Black lesbians, gay men and bisexuals are less likely to suffer from mental disorders than their white or Latino counterparts, a new study shows.
The findings call into question the "double jeopardy" theory, which argues that black homosexuals would actually be at greater risk of such problems due to suffering both racial discrimination and homophobia.
"It doesn't seem to confirm those social stress theories," Dr. Ilan H. Meyer of Columbia University in New York City, the study's lead author, told Reuters Health. Perhaps, he suggested, black individuals who are homosexual have dealt with racial discrimination from an early age, and have thus developed healthier ways of coping with discrimination based on sexual orientation later in life.
Meyer and his team sought to better understand the prevalence of mental disorders and suicide attempts among homosexual individuals based on ethnicity by surveying 388 lesbian, gay and bisexual people who identified themselves as black, white or Latino.
Latino and white study participants had a similar prevalence of mental disorders, but blacks had significantly less. This mirrors the general population, Meyer noted, in which blacks overall are less likely to have mental health problems than whites.
However, black and Latino study participants were more likely than whites to have attempted suicide. Such suicide attempts may have been more closely related to stress and trauma surrounding coming out -- attempts were made, on average, when individuals were 17.5 years old -- than underlying mental health problems, Meyers suggests.
"A lot of blacks and Latinos did report all kinds of events that surrounded their coming out," he noted, for example being kicked out of the house and rejected by their families.
On a more positive note, the researchers had hypothesized that younger study participants would be less likely to have mental disorders than older people given that they grew up in a generally more tolerant environment, and this was indeed the case.
SOURCE: American Journal of Public Health, November 2007.
Copyright © 2007 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable for any errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon. Reuters and the Reuters sphere logo are registered trademarks and trademarks of the Reuters group of companies around the world.
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