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Kari Kesler; Andrea Gerber; BA Laris; Pamela Anderson; Elizabeth Baumler; Karin Coyle – Prevention Science, 2023
Homophobic and transphobic beliefs that lead to bias-based harassment remain a critical concern for young people in the USA. The aim of the present study was to examine the impact of an inclusive comprehensive sex education program (High School FLASH) on homophobic and transphobic beliefs. Data from this study come from a randomized controlled…
Descriptors: Grade 9, Grade 10, LGBTQ People, Sex Education
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Slaatten, Hilde; Hetland, Jørn; Anderssen, Norman – Psychology in the Schools, 2015
The aim of this study was to examine whether attitudes about gay-related name-calling, social norms concerning gay-related name-calling among co-students, teacher intervention, and school-related support would predict whether secondary school pupils had called another pupil a gay-related name during the last month. A total of 921 ninth-grade…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Homosexuality, Social Bias, Antisocial Behavior
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Homma, Yuko; Chen, Weihong; Poon, Colleen S.; Saewyc, Elizabeth M. – Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse, 2012
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between substance use and sexual orientation among Asian adolescents in Canada. We analyzed an East- and Southeast-Asian subsample of a province-wide, school-based survey (weighted N = 51,349). Compared to heterosexual adolescents of the same gender, gay, lesbian, bisexual, and mostly…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Homosexuality, Substance Abuse
American Association of University Women, 2011
Sexual harassment has long been an unfortunate part of the climate in middle and high schools in the United States. Often considered a kind of bullying, sexual harassment by definition involves sex and gender and therefore warrants separate attention. The legal definition of sexual harassment also differentiates it from bullying. Based on a…
Descriptors: Sexual Harassment, Incidence, Prevention, Middle Schools
Hill, Catherine; Kearl, Holly – American Association of University Women, 2011
Sexual harassment has long been an unfortunate part of the climate in middle and high schools in the United States. Often considered a kind of bullying, sexual harassment by definition involves sex and gender and therefore warrants separate attention. The legal definition of sexual harassment also differentiates it from bullying. Based on a…
Descriptors: Sexual Harassment, Incidence, Prevention, Middle Schools