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Gender-Sexuality Alliance Membership and Activities: Associations with Students' Comfort, Confidence and Awareness Regarding Substance Use Resources
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Murchison, Gabriel R.; Rosenbach, Sarah B.; Poteat, V. Paul; Yoshikawa, Hirokazu; Calzo, Jerel P. – Health Education Research, 2021
Belonging to a school Gender and Sexuality Alliance (GSA) is associated with lower substance use among LGBTQ+ youth. However, it is unknown whether GSA participation facilitates access to resources for substance use concerns. Using longitudinal data from 38 Massachusetts high schools, we compared sources of support for substance use concerns…
Descriptors: Sexual Orientation, Sexual Identity, Student Organizations, Self Esteem
A Mixed-Methods Examination of the Unique Associations of Gender-Sexuality Alliance Involvement and Family Support on Bravery in Sexual and Gender Minority Youth
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Ceccolini, Christopher J.; Poteat, V. Paul; Calzo, Jerel P.; Yoshikawa, Hirokazu; Meyer, Kasey – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2021
Research among sexual and gender minority (SGM) youth has suggested associations between Gender-Sexuality Alliance (GSA) involvement and better health. Emergent research has similarly demonstrated associations between family support and general well-being among SGM youth. However, the trait of bravery has received little attention in this…
Descriptors: Minority Groups, LGBTQ People, Well Being, Individual Characteristics
Development of Youth Advocacy and Sociopolitical Efficacy as Dimensions of Critical Consciousness within Gender-Sexuality Alliances
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Poteat, V. Paul; Godfrey, Erin B.; Brion-Meisels, Gretchen; Calzo, Jerel P. – Developmental Psychology, 2020
Attention to youth advocacy and sociopolitical efficacy has been evident in developmental research on critical consciousness, yet this literature has given little attention to sexual and gender minority (SGM) youth or issues, or to the interplay between these dimensions of critical consciousness over time. We addressed these limitations within the…
Descriptors: Advocacy, LGBTQ People, Youth Programs, Student Participation
Fostering Youth Self-Efficacy to Address Transgender and Racial Diversity Issues: The Role of Gay-Straight Alliances
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Chong, Eddie S. K.; Poteat, V. Paul; Yoshikawa, Hirokazu; Calzo, Jerel P. – School Psychology, 2019
Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs) aspire to empower youth to address multiple systems of oppression, including those affecting transgender and racial/ethnic minority youth, yet there is little indication of factors contributing to youths' self-efficacy to do so. We examined individual and group factors predicting self-efficacy to address transgender…
Descriptors: Homosexuality, Sexual Orientation, Sexual Identity, Youth
Gender Expression, Violence, and Bullying Victimization: Findings from Probability Samples of High School Students in 4 US School Districts
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Gordon, Allegra R.; Conron, Kerith J.; Calzo, Jerel P.; White, Matthew T.; Reisner, Sari L.; Austin, S. Bryn – Journal of School Health, 2018
Background: Young people may experience school-based violence and bullying victimization related to their gender expression, independent of sexual orientation identity. However, the associations between gender expression and bullying and violence have not been examined in racially and ethnically diverse population-based samples of high school…
Descriptors: High School Students, Sexual Orientation, Sexual Harassment, Violence
Gay-Straight Alliances as Settings for Youth Inclusion and Development: Future Conceptual and Methodological Directions for Research on These and Other Student Groups in Schools
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Poteat, V. Paul; Yoshikawa, Hirokazu; Calzo, Jerel P.; Russell, Stephen T.; Horn, Stacey – Educational Researcher, 2017
Outside the immediate classroom setting, efforts within other school spaces also can shape school climate, address inequality, and affect student performance. Nevertheless, in this respect there has been little research on school-based extracurricular groups focused on issues of social inclusion and justice. An exception to this lack of focus has…
Descriptors: Clubs, Homosexuality, Sexual Orientation, Sexual Identity
Greater Engagement among Members of Gay-Straight Alliances: Individual and Structural Contributors
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Poteat, V. Paul; Heck, Nicholas C.; Yoshikawa, Hirokazu; Calzo, Jerel P. – American Educational Research Journal, 2016
Using youth program models to frame the study of Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs), we identified individual and structural predictors of greater engagement in these settings with a cross-sectional sample of 295 youth in 33 GSAs from the 2014 Massachusetts GSA Network Survey (69% LGBQ, 68% cisgender female, 68% White, M[subscript age] =16.07).…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Predictor Variables, Participation, Surveys