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Record W2803014519 · doi:10.7939/r3vq2sg2c

The Relationship of Sexual Orientation and Depression

2016· article· en· W2803014519 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Roger L. Scott

Bibliographic record

VenueUniversity of Alberta Library · 2016
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicLGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSexual orientationPsychologyDepression (economics)Orientation (vector space)Social psychologyDevelopmental psychologyEconomicsMathematics

Abstract

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Depression a disabling chronic illness that crosses borders, cultures, and elements of society. It is well known that there are a number of risk factors for depression including younger age, racial minority status, female sex, presence of substance abuse disorders, chronic illness, and lower socio-economic status. Sexual minorities have been identified as being another group at higher risk for depression, but there have been methodological issues with much of the existing research on sexual orientation and depression. In this work, methodological issues such as grouping different mental illnesses, failing to differentiate by sex, and failing to differentiate by sexual orientation have been overcome to describe the relationship between sexual orientation and depression. Three population representative samples were analyzed using regression techniques to examine the relationship of depression and sexual orientation. The results were combined with existing literature in a meta-analysis. The findings were that overall lesbians, gay men, and bisexuals do not have higher prevalence of depression than heterosexuals. There were three important findings: 1) heterosexual identified men who have same-sex activity have highest risk for depression, 2) gay men may have lower risk for depression than heterosexual men, and 3) gay men in the Canadian Armed Forces differ from civilian counterparts with higher prevalence of depression. This work adds to the existing literature on mental health in sexual minority populations. Further research is needed to examine other mental health disorders and to identify differences in risks based on more complex measures of sexual orientation.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.052
Threshold uncertainty score0.538

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.021
GPT teacher head0.268
Teacher spread0.246 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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