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Roberts, Stacey Nemeth – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This research examined the increased tendency towards suicidality in cisgender LGB college students as compared to their cisgender heterosexual counterparts. The responses of 1,503 LGB college students to a survey distributed by the National Research Consortium of Counseling Centers in Higher Education (RC) in 2011 were analyzed. Given the…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Stress Variables, Suicide, LGBTQ People
Stoner, Julie E. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Females between the ages of 18 and 24 consistently experience higher rates of sexual violence compared to females in any other age group (Sinozich & Langton, 2014). Approximately one in five college women experience sexual violence victimization (SVV; Krebs, Lindquist, Berzofsky, Shook-Sa & Peterson, 2016) during the academic year. Among…
Descriptors: College Students, Females, Sexual Abuse, Violence
Ploskonka, Rachel Ann – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) college students are among the most vulnerable to suicidal ideation and behaviors when compared to both heterosexual college students and other, generally older, members of the LGB community (Oswalt & Wyatt, 2011). Joiner's (2005) interpersonal psychological theory of suicide seems to be a possible framework…
Descriptors: College Students, Homosexuality, Sexual Orientation, Suicide
Sedillo, Paul James – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This qualitative, retrospective study investigated suicidal ideation among 32 young adult men. Participants were asked to report their experiences as adolescents. The primary focus of the study was to discover how gay gifted adolescents dealt with issues of suicide and suicidal ideation. Participants were selected using a purposive sampling…
Descriptors: Suicide, Gifted, Questionnaires, Males
Schwickrath, Heather M. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
After an extensive literature review, results indicated research has been conducted examining the links between traditional bullying and suicide, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered, and questioning (LGBTQ) identification and cyberbullying, as well as LGBTQ identification and suicide. However, it appears as though there is a dearth of studies…
Descriptors: Bullying, Computer Mediated Communication, Homosexuality, Sexual Orientation
Jones, Joseph R. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
According to Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network, GLSEN, (2003), 84% of GLBT students experienced homophobic remarks or verbal harassment and of those, 91.5% reported hearing the word "faggot" or "dyke" on a regular basis, and over 60% felt unsafe in their schools because of their sexual orientation. More recently, several middle school…
Descriptors: Art History, Suicide, Homosexuality, Sexuality