Eating attitudes and depressive symptoms in a LGBTIQ sample in Turkey

Hayriye Güleç and colleagues examined attitudes towards food and depressive symptoms in a group of LGBTIQ people from Turkey. The results were published in the journal Frontiers in Psychiatry. Find below what Hayriye and colleagues found!

December 2022 Hayriye Gülec

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersexual and queer (LGBTIQ) individuals are often stigmatized due to their minority status. In a recent study, we investigated (1) eating attitudes and depressive symptoms in a sexual minority sample from Turkey who identify themselves as LGBTIQ and (2) explored the role of sexual minority stressors beyond the potential predictors of eating attitudes and depressive symptoms in this population. Our findings indicated that:

disturbed eating attitudes were predicted by assigned female sex at birth, higher scores for depression, social isolation, and the total number of heterosexist experiences, and lower distress related to heterosexist experiences.

depressive symptoms were predicted by assigned female sex at birth, lesbian sexual orientation, disturbance in eating attitudes, increases in generalized anxiety, and distress related to daily heterosexist experiences.

These findings demonstrated the significant role of sexual minority stressors in the prediction of disturbed eating attitudes and depressive symptomatology beyond the general psychosocial vulnerability factors. They emphasize the need for developing strategies to reduce prejudicial attitudes at the societal level and to enhance the skills of LGBTIQ individuals in coping with sexual minority stressors in Turkey.

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How to cite this research?

Gulec, H., Torun, T., Prado, AS., Bauer, S., Rummel-Kluge, C., & Kohls, E. (2022). Eating attitudes and depressive symptoms in a LGBTIQ sample in Turkey. Frontiers in Psychiatry 13, 1014253. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.1014253

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