Saude mental, qualidade de vida, religiosidade e identidade psicossocial nas homosexualidades / Homosexuality: mental health and psychosocial identity

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

The following study has focused on the production of empirical knowledge regarding homosexualities in the Brazilian social-cultural environment. The following dimensions have been considered: mental health, life quality, religiousness and psychosocial identity. Quantitative and qualitative methods, as well as a comparison between the study group (subjects with homosexual orientation) and the contrast group (subjects with heterosexual orientation), according to gender, age and education have been applied. For the qualitative material, semi-structured interviews have been conducted. The quantitative data has been gathered through the appliance of M.I.N.I Plus and WHOQOL Bref. A higher prevalence of mental disturbances and attendance at mental health services by the group with homosexual orientation have been verified when compared to the contrast group, as well as the association between mental disorder and lower level of quality of life. The religiosity of the study group reveals the presence of ?religious individualism?, which takes part in the development of psychosocial identity of these individuals, as well as the integration in social groups. Such development process points to differences between the two genders in the study group. Since the identification of internalized homophobia, a possibility of impact of the experiences of discrimination on the mental health is suggested

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homosexualismo mental health homosexualism identity saude mental sexual identity homosexuality homosexualidade identidade sexual identidade

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