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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
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Poteat, V. Paul; Scheer, Jillian R. – Journal of LGBT Youth, 2016
Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs) serve lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) and heterosexual youth from diverse backgrounds. Although some attention has been given to youth members in general, little attention has been given to adult advisors. Among 47 GSA advisors from 33 high schools (39 cisgender female, 8 cisgender male), the authors…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Homosexuality, High School Students, Organizations (Groups)
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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