Questionnaire: Discrimination and Mental Wellbeing among Sexual and Gender Minority Students in German Higher Education

This dataset contains the questionnaire in XML format, applicable for soscisurvey.com, that was used in a study investigating discrimination against sexual and gender minority students in a number of higher education institutions in Germany. The study focuses on forms and frequencies of heterosexist discrimination experiences in daily life and on campus, as well as the state of mental well-being among those affected, whilst examinng similarities and differences between cisgender and transgender/non-binary minority students.The study was conducted as a cross-sectional survey involving 357 participants from eighty-six higher education institutions. Participants were recruited through various channels such as university mailing lists, LGBTQ student organizations, and social media platforms. Data collection was performed from June to August 2022 via soscisurvey.com. After a brief introduction, participants gave their informed consent for the anonymized data processing. Approval of the RWTH Aachen University Human Research Ethics Committee had been given in advance.The questionnaire consists of several sections addressing sociodemographic information, experiences of discrimination on and off campus, as well as questions on personal attitudes towards their sexuality and their community, based on the Minority Stress Model (Meyer 2004). The well-validated PHQ was employed to assess general anxiety (GAD-7), depression (PHQ-9), and somatization disorders (PHQ-15).