Psychiatric morbidity associated with same-sex sexual behaviour: Influence of minority stress and familial factors

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 315-324

  Frisell, T ^a   Lichtenstein, P ^a   Rahman, Q ^b,c   Langstrom N ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Environment; Genetics; Minority stress; Psychiatric symptoms; Sexual behaviour

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BISEXUALITY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GENETICS; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REGISTER; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICS; TWINS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; BISEXUALITY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMANS; MALE; REGISTRIES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TWINS;

EID: 76649086966     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291709005996     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. APA (2000). Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edn, text revision (DSM-IV-TR). American Psychiatric Association: Washington, DC.
2. Bailey JM (1999). Homosexuality and mental illness. Archives of General Psychiatry 56, 883-884.
3. Balsam KF, Beauchaine TP, Mickey RM, Rothblum ED (2005b). Mental health of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and heterosexual siblings: effects of gender, sexual orientation, and family. Journal of Abnormal Psychology 114, 471-476.
4. Balsam KF, Rothblum ED, Beauchaine TP (2005a). Victimization over the life span: a comparison of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and heterosexual siblings. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 73, 477-487.
5. Carlin JB, Gurrin LC, Sterne JA, Morley R, Dwyer T (2005). Regression models for twin studies: a critical review. International Journal of Epidemiology 34, 1089-1099.
6. Carpenter JS, Andrykowski MA, Wilson J, Hall LA, Rayens MK, Sachs B, Cunningham LL (1998). Psychometrics for two short forms of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression Scale. Issues in Mental Health Nursing 19, 481-494.
7. Cochran SD, Mays VM (2000a). Lifetime prevalence of suicide symptoms and affective disorders among men reporting same-sex sexual partners: results from NHANES III. American Journal of Public Health 90, 573-578.
8. Cochran SD, Mays VM (2000b). Relation between psychiatric syndromes and behaviorally defined sexual orientation in a sample of the US population. American Journal of Epidemiology 151, 516-523.
9. Cochran SD, Mays VM, Alegria M, Ortega AN, Takeuchi D (2007). Mental health and substance use disorders among Latino and Asian American lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 75, 785-794.
10. Cochran SD, Mays VM, Sullivan JG (2003). Prevalence of mental disorders, psychological distress, and mental health services use among lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults in the United States. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology 71, 53-61.
11. Conner M, Johnson C, Grogan S (2004). Gender, sexuality, body image and eating behaviours. Journal of Health Psychology 9, 505-515.
12. de Graaf R, Sandfort TG, ten Have M (2006). Suicidality and sexual orientation: differences between men and women in a general population-based sample from the Netherlands. Archives of Sexual Behavior 35, 253-262.
13. Fergusson DM, Horwood LJ, Beautrais AL (1999). Is sexual orientation related to mental health problems and suicidality in young people? Archives of General Psychiatry 56, 876-880.
14. Fergusson DM, Horwood LJ, Ridder EM, Beautrais AL (2005). Sexual orientation and mental health in a birth cohort of young adults. Psychological Medicine 35, 971-981.
15. First MB, Spitzer RL, Gibbon M, Williams JB (2002). Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV-TR Axis I Disorders, Research Version, Non-Patient Edition (SCID-I/NP). Biometrics Research Department, New York State Psychiatric Institute: New York.
16. Friedman RC, Downey JI (1998). Psychoanalysis and the model of homosexuality as psychopathology: a historical overview. American Journal of Psychoanalysis 58, 249-270.
17. Furberg H, Lichtenstein P, Pedersen NL, Thornton L, Bulik CM, Lerman C, Sullivan PF (2008). The STAGE cohort: a prospective study of tobacco use among Swedish twins. Nicotine and Tobacco Research 12, 1727-1735.
18. Gilman SE, Cochran SD, Mays VM, Hughes M, Ostrow D, Kessler RC (2001). Risk of psychiatric disorders among individuals reporting same-sex sexual partners in the National Comorbidity Survey. American Journal of Public Health 91, 933-939.
19. Heinrup M (2005). The HIV Epidemic in Sweden [in Swedish]. Smittskyddsinstitutet: Stockholm, Sweden.
20. Herek GM, Garnets LD (2007). Sexual orientation and mental health. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology 3, 353-375.
21. Herrell R, Goldberg J, True WR, Ramakrishnan V, Lyons M, Eisen S, Tsuang MT (1999). Sexual orientation and suicidality: a co-twin control study in adult men. Archives of General Psychiatry 56, 867-874.
22. Hospers HJ, Jansen A (2005). Why homosexuality is a risk factor for eating disorders in males. Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology 24, 1188-1201.
23. Kessler RC, Berglund P, Demler O, Jin R, Merikangas KR, Walters EE (2005). Lifetime prevalence and age-of-onset distributions of DSM-IV disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication. Archives of General Psychiatry 62, 593-602. (Pubitemid 40973434)
24. King M, McKeown E, Warner J, Ramsay A, Johnson K, Cort C, Wright L, Blizard R, Davidson O (2003). Mental health and quality of life of gay men and lesbians in England and Wales: controlled, cross-sectional study. British Journal of Psychiatry 183, 552-558.
25. King M, Semlyen J, See Tai S, Killaspy H, Osborn D, Popelyuk D, Nazareth I (2008). A systematic review of mental disorder, suicide, and deliberate self harm in lesbian, gay and bisexual people. BMC Psychiatry 2008, 8, 70.
26. La°ngström N, Rahman Q, Carlström E, Lichtenstein P (2008). Genetic and environmental effects on same-sex sexual behavior: a population study of twins in Sweden. Archives of Sexual Behavior. Published online: 7 June 2008. doi:10.1007/s10508-008-9386-1.
27. Lichtenstein P, De Faire U, Floderus B, Svartengren M, Svedberg P, Pedersen NL (2002). The Swedish Twin Registry: a unique resource for clinical, epidemiological and genetic studies. Journal of Internal Medicine 252, 184-205.
28. Lichtenstein P, Sullivan PF, Cnattingius S, Gatz M, Johansson S, Carlström E, Björk C, Svartengren M, Wolk A, Klareskog L, de Faire U, Schalling M, Palmgren J, Pedersen NL (2006). The Swedish Twin Registry in the third millennium: an update. Twin Research and Human Genetics 9, 875-882.
29. Mays VM, Cochran SD (2001). Mental health correlates of perceived discrimination among lesbian, gay, and bisexual adults in the United States. American Journal of Public Health 91, 1869-1876.
30. Meyer IH (2003). Prejudice, social stress, and mental health in lesbian, gay, and bisexual populations: conceptual issues and research evidence. Psychological Bulletin 129, 674-697.
31. Mills TC, Paul J, Stall R, Pollack L, Canchola J, Chang YJ, Moskowitz JT, Catania JA (2004). Distress and depression in men who have sex with men: the Urban Men's Health Study. American Journal of Psychiatry 161, 278-285.
32. Murphy P, Schachar R (2000). Use of self-ratings in the assessment of symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in adults. American Journal of Psychiatry 157, 1156-1159.
33. Sandfort TG, de Graaf R, Bijl RV, Schnabel P (2001). Same-sex sexual behavior and psychiatric disorders: findings from the Netherlands Mental Health Survey and Incidence Study (NEMESIS). Archives of General Psychiatry 58, 85-91.
34. Sandfort TG, de Graaf R, Bijl RV (2003). Same-sex sexuality and quality of life: findings from the Netherlands Mental Health Survey and Incidence Study. Archives of Sexual Behavior 32, 15-22.
35. Silenzio VM, Pena JB, Duberstein PR, Cerel J, Knox KL (2007). Sexual orientation and risk factors for suicidal ideation and suicide attempts among adolescents and young adults. American Journal of Public Health 97, 2017-2019.
36. Wamala S, Boström G, Nyqvist K (2007). Perceived discrimination and psychological distress in Sweden. British Journal of Psychiatry 190, 75-76.
37. Wichstrøm L, Hegna K (2003). Sexual orientation and suicide attempt: a longitudinal study of the general Norwegian adolescent population. Journal of Abnormal Psychology 112, 144-151.