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Mallory, Allen B.; Pollitt, Amanda M.; Bishop, Meg D.; Russell, Stephen T. – Developmental Psychology, 2021
Disclosing a sexual minority (e.g., lesbian, gay, or bisexual) identity to others is an ongoing process throughout life. Research shows that disclosure is stressful, and this stress is related to poorer mental health for sexual minority youth. However, there are few theoretically grounded studies examining disclosure stress and its prospective…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Self Disclosure (Individuals), Depression (Psychology), Mental Health
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Smetana, Judith G.; Ahmad, Ikhlas; Wray-Lake, Laura – Developmental Psychology, 2016
We examined within- and between-person variations in parental legitimacy beliefs in a sample of 883 Arab refugee youth (M[subscript age] = 15.01 years, SD = 1.60), 277 Iraqis, 275 Syrians, and 331 Palestinians, in Amman, Jordan. Latent profile analyses of 22 belief items yielded 4 profiles of youth. The "normative" profile (67% of the…
Descriptors: Refugees, Arabs, Parenting Styles, Beliefs
Scott, Andrea T. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
Domestic violence is a growing social and health problem that affects many women each year. While the reasons that a great number of battered women stay in or return to an abusive relationship are multifaceted, reasons extracted from the domestic violence literature revealed that the lack of economic resources and the lack of financial…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Females, Self Efficacy, Depression (Psychology)