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Membros da comunidade Lésbica, Gay e Bissexual (LGB) têm uma maior probabilidade de desenvolver problemas ao nível de saúde mental e uma pior qualidade de vida em comparação com a população heterossexual. A investigação sugere que o facto de pertencerem a uma minoria sexual representa per se um fator de risco para desenvolver patologias a nível da saúde. Este estudo pretender investigar se existe uma relação entre a meta-desumanização e a saúde mental geral, como também, analisar se a auto-desumanização e a fusão cognitiva podem ser mediadoras nesta relação. 162 participantes responderam a medidas de autorrelato dos construtos em estudo; 62 participantes identificados com o género feminino (42%), 81 participantes com o género masculino (50%) e 13 participantes como não binários (8%), com idades compreendidas entre os 19 e 54 anos de idade. As correlações de Pearson refletem correlações estatisticamente significantes e positivas entre as variáveis, como também, as análises de mediação sugerem que meta-desumanização é um preditor significativo da auto-desumanização, da fusão cognitiva e da saúde mental geral. Os resultados também sugerem que a auto-desumanização é um preditor da fusão cognitiva e esta, por sua vez, é um preditor da ansiedade e insónia, dos sintomas somáticos, da depressão grave, mas não do disfuncionamento social. Estes resultados sugerem que níveis elevados de meta-desumanização podem contribuir para uma pior saúde mental geral porque aumenta a vulnerabilidade dos membros desta comunidade à auto-desumanização e fusão cognitiva.
Members of the Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual (LGB) community are more likely to develop mental health problems and have a worse quality of life when compared to the heterosexual population. Research suggests that belonging to a sexual minority represents per se a risk factor for developing health pathologies. This study aims to investigate whether there is a relationship between meta-dehumanization and general mental health, as well as to analyze whether self-dehumanization and cognitive fusion can be mediators in this relationship. 162 participants responded to self-report measures of the constructs under study; 62 participants identified as female (42%), 81 participants as male (50%) and 13 participants as non-binary (8%), aged between 19 and 54 years old. Pearson correlations reflect statistically significant and positive correlations between variables, and mediation analyses suggest that meta-dehumanization is a significant predictor of self dehumanization, cognitive fusion and general mental health. The results also suggest that self dehumanization is a predictor of cognitive fusion and this, in turn, is a predictor of anxiety and insomnia, somatic symptoms, severe depression, but not social dysfunction. These results suggest that high levels of meta-dehumanization may contribute to poorer overall mental health because it increases the vulnerability of members of this community to self dehumanization and cognitive fusion.
Members of the Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual (LGB) community are more likely to develop mental health problems and have a worse quality of life when compared to the heterosexual population. Research suggests that belonging to a sexual minority represents per se a risk factor for developing health pathologies. This study aims to investigate whether there is a relationship between meta-dehumanization and general mental health, as well as to analyze whether self-dehumanization and cognitive fusion can be mediators in this relationship. 162 participants responded to self-report measures of the constructs under study; 62 participants identified as female (42%), 81 participants as male (50%) and 13 participants as non-binary (8%), aged between 19 and 54 years old. Pearson correlations reflect statistically significant and positive correlations between variables, and mediation analyses suggest that meta-dehumanization is a significant predictor of self dehumanization, cognitive fusion and general mental health. The results also suggest that self dehumanization is a predictor of cognitive fusion and this, in turn, is a predictor of anxiety and insomnia, somatic symptoms, severe depression, but not social dysfunction. These results suggest that high levels of meta-dehumanization may contribute to poorer overall mental health because it increases the vulnerability of members of this community to self dehumanization and cognitive fusion.
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LGB Meta-desumanização Auto-desumanização e a fusão cognitiva Saúde mental geral
