@article{ref1,
title="Discrimination and suicide risk among transgender and gender-diverse adults: the moderating roles of self-compassion, self-coldness, and gender identity",
journal="Psychology of sexual orientation and gender diversity",
year="2023",
author="Boase, Ella-Rose and McLaren, Suzanne",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Transgender and gender-diverse (TGD) adults are disproportionately at risk of suicide. Discrimination is a key suicide risk correlate. Emerging evidence suggests transgender people may experience discrimination and suicide differently to gender-diverse people. No research has investigated whether self-compassion is protective against suicide within the TGD population. The present study examined whether self-compassion weakened and self-coldness strengthened the relationship between discrimination and suicide risk and whether these effects differed between gender groups (transgender or gender-diverse). An international sample of transgender (n = 240) and gender-diverse (n = 145) adults completed the Suicide Behaviors Questionnaire-Revised, the Self-Compassion Scale, the Transgender Discrimination Scale, and the Centre for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression Scale. <br><br>RESULTS indicated significant gender differences in the way that self-compassion and self-coldness moderated the discrimination-suicide risk relationship, with patterns indicating self-compassion, was a protective correlate for gender-diverse participants and a risk correlate for transgender participants. Self-coldness significantly strengthened the discrimination-suicide risk relationship for gender-diverse participants. Interventions that aim to reduce self-coldness may help reduce suicide risk for gender-diverse people. To understand how self-compassion may operate as a risk correlate for transgender adults facing discrimination, it is recommended future research investigate proximal factors that may explain the relationship between discrimination and suicide uniquely for this population through moderated-mediation models. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2329-0382",
doi="10.1037/sgd0000634",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/sgd0000634"
}