ArticleBMC psychology2025
Social rejection in minority groups and its impact on current and future mental health: a study in transgender people.
Article in BMC psychology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
1 citing paper in PubMed.
- Artistic and Playful Resources as Mental Health Support in the Life Trajectories of Trans and Gender-Diverse People: A Qualitative Study from a Public Health Perspective.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundMinority groups including transgender persons are frequently subjected to social rejection and ostracism, leading to minority stress. This stress may lead to a variety of adverse mental and physical health outcomes. Yet, the impact of this stress on underlying psychophysiology in transgender people has not been tested experimentally.
methodsUsing the "first impressions paradigm" this study examined psychophysiological feedback to experimentally-induced social rejection in hormone-naïve transgender people (37 trans men (TM) and 27 trans women (TW)) and cisgender comparisons (30 cis men (CM) and 36 cis women (CW)). Participants received positive and negative social evaluations (based on their own photograph) while eye movements (i.e., gaze behavior and pupil dilation) were recorded. All participants filled out questionnaires regarding mental health (e.g., depression, anxiety, resilience) before the task, and prior to commencing gender-affirming hormone treatment (T0) (GAHT) in trans people, and again after 6-10 months (T1).
resultsTrans people gazed more towards the feedback word relative to cis comparisons. Also, CW gazed more to the evaluator than any of the other three groups. No differences in pupil dilation emerged. Interestingly, gaze data at T0 predicted anxiety (TW & CW), resilience (TW & CW), and self-esteem (both trans groups) at T1.
conclusionsThe findings indicate heightened attention to feedback in trans people as well as heightened attention to the evaluator in CW during a social evaluation task. Lastly, gaze duration is linked with mental health outcomes more than half year later for TM, TW, and CW.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.