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Public Seminar: Effects of general & sexual minority-specific COVID-19-related stressors on the mental health of lesbian, gay, and bisexual people in Hong Kong
2020年10月20日
19:00-20:00
Online Seminar (Link to Zoom webinar will be sent to you after registration)
Prof Suen Yiu Tung obtained his D.Phil. in Sociology from the University of Oxford where he was a 4-year fully funded Swire Scholar at St. Antony’s College. He read his Msc Sociology also at the University of Oxford at St. Hugh’s College with China Oxford Scholarship. Currently, he is Assistant Professor of the Gender Studies Programme, Associate Director of the Gender Research Centre, and Founding Director of the Sexualities Research Programme, at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His studies inform and are informed by critical current debates on sexual orientation and gender identity laws and policies, particularly with a view to provide empirical evidence which has been largely absent in Asia. His research is multi-disciplinary in nature. He has spearheaded and chaired a number of international conferences in collaboration with organizations such as the European Union and the United Nations Development Programme.
Tel: 3943-1429 Email: genderstudies@cuhk.edu.hk Website: http://www.gender.cuhk.edu.hk
The impact of COVID-19 on mental health has begun to be widely recognized, but there is an absence of studies on how the mental health of lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) people have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. A total of 857 LGB people in Hong Kong participated in a community-based survey study. Over one-fourth of them met the criteria for probable clinical depression (31.5%) and generalized anxiety disorder (27.9%). Besides general stressors, we identified sexual minority-specific stressors during the pandemic. 4.2% of the participants indicated that they had frequently experienced family conflict related to sexual orientation. One-third responded that they had largely reduced connection to the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender plus (LGBT+) community (34.7%). The results showed that sexual minority-specific COVID-19-related stressors explained significant variance in depressive and anxiety symptoms, above and beyond the contribution of general COVID-19-related stressors. Since LGB people are particularly vulnerable to poor mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic, LGB people-targeting organizations need to understand more about family, space, and privacy concerns in order to provide better support, and LGB safe spaces and shelters may be needed as a policy response.
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Language: English
