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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
GSA Advisors' Self-Efficacy Related to LGBT Youth of Color and Transgender 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)
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