Using mental health screening instruments for understanding depression and personality profiles among Chinese transgender individuals

Q3 Social Sciences

China Journal of Social Work Pub Date : 2020-08-13 DOI:10.1080/17525098.2020.1803517

Jiwen Zhang, Peng-Chih Wang, Fei Zhang, H. Lo

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Abstract

ABSTRACT This study assessed the depression status of transgender individuals and their personality profiles for seeing the psychological functioning. We further compared their status with cisgender individuals and explored the role of personality profiles in explaining the variance of depression level among transgender and cisgender individuals. Seventy-one transgender individuals and seventy-three cisgender individuals were investigated in Shanghai Mental Health Centre. The general depression level and personality profiles of transgender individuals remained normative range, but percentages of transgender individuals who reported moderate or major symptoms and poor personality profiles were significantly higher than those of cisgender counterparts. Subscale scores of paranoia and psychopathic deviate significantly contributed to the variance of depression level among transgender people in multiple regression model. This study sheds light on the psychological needs of transgender people, which provided healthcare providers with the implications of developing psychological intervention programmes and mental health services.

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利用心理健康筛查工具了解中国跨性别者的抑郁和人格特征

摘要本研究旨在评估跨性别者的抑郁状况及其人格特征，以观察其心理功能。我们进一步比较了跨性别者与顺性别者的抑郁状态，并探讨了人格特征在解释跨性别者与顺性别者抑郁水平差异中的作用。对上海市精神卫生中心的71名跨性别者和73名顺性别者进行了调查。跨性别者的总体抑郁水平和人格特征保持在正常范围内，但报告中度或重度症状和不良人格特征的跨性别者比例显著高于顺性别者。在多元回归模型中，偏执分和变态分对跨性别者抑郁水平差异有显著影响。这项研究揭示了跨性别者的心理需求，为医疗保健提供者提供了制定心理干预方案和心理健康服务的启示。

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China Journal of Social Work Social Sciences-Sociology and Political Science

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