TY - JOUR
T1 - Using mental health screening instruments for understanding depression and personality profiles among Chinese transgender individuals
AU - Zhang, Jiwen
AU - Wang, Peng
AU - Zhang, Fei
AU - Lo, Herman Hay Ming
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Shanghai Mental Health Centre under Grant [2018-YJ-17].
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2020/8/13
Y1 - 2020/8/13
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Chinese transgender individuals
KW - Depression
KW - mental health screening
KW - personality profiles
KW - psychological functioning
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U2 - 10.1080/17525098.2020.1803517
DO - 10.1080/17525098.2020.1803517
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85089501025
SN - 1752-5098
VL - 13
SP - 283
EP - 298
JO - China Journal of Social Work
JF - China Journal of Social Work
IS - 3
ER -