Greater Engagement in Gender-Sexuality Alliances (GSAs) and GSA Characteristics Predict Youth Empowerment and Reduced Mental Health Concerns
2019/11/25 by V. Paul Poteat, V Paul Poteat, Jerel P Calzo +14 · 29 citations
Social Sciences · #Youth Development and Social Support #Parental Involvement in Education #Gender Roles and Identity Studies
paper · doi:10.1111/cdev.13345
Abstract
Abstract Extracurricular groups can promote healthy development, yet the literature has given limited attention to indirect associations between extracurricular involvement and mental health or to sexual and gender minority youth. Among 580 youth (Mage = 15.59, range = 10–20 years) and adult advisors in 38 Gender-Sexuality Alliances (GSAs), multilevel structural equation models showed that greater engagement in GSAs over the school year predicted increased perceived peer validation, self-efficacy to promote social justice, and hope (baseline adjusted). Through increased hope, greater engagement indirectly predicted reduced depressive and anxiety symptoms at the year’s end (baseline adjusted). GSAs whose members had more mental health discussions and more meetings reported reduced mental health concerns. Findings suggest how groups addressing issues of equity and justice improve members’ health.
Citations
Cited by
- Resource access and use: Impacts on distal minority stressors for racial and sexual diverse youth in rural and urban contexts
- White American transgender adults' retrospective reports on the social and contextual aspects of their gender identity development
- Suicide Risk and Social Connectedness in Cisgender and Transgender Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Queer/Questioning Youth in the Emergency Department
- Elements of Minority Stress and Resilience in LGBTQ+ Students’ Experience of Education
- Future Directions in Understanding and Addressing Mental Health among LGBTQ Youth. [europepmc]
- The Substance and Circumstances of Race and Immigration Talk in High School Gender and Sexuality Alliances. [europepmc]
- A Mixed-Methods Examination of the Unique Associations of Gender-Sexuality Alliance Involvement and Family Support on Bravery in Sexual and Gender Minority Youth. [europepmc]
- Promoting School Safety for LGBTQ and All Students. [europepmc]
- Protective Factors for LGBTI+ Youth Wellbeing: A Scoping Review Underpinned by Recognition Theory. [europepmc]
- Gender-Sexuality Alliances as a moderator of the association between victimization, depressive symptoms, and drinking behavior among LGBTQ+ youth. [europepmc]
- Examining the Relationship Between LGBTQ-Supportive School Health Policies and Practices and Psychosocial Health Outcomes of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Heterosexual Students. [europepmc]
- Interpersonal Violence Victimization Experiences of Middle School Youth: An Exploration by Gender and Sexual/Romantic Attraction. [europepmc]
- Youth Advocacy Varies in Relation to Adult Advisor Characteristics and Practices in Gender-Sexuality Alliances. [europepmc]
- Future Directions in Mental Health Treatment with Stigmatized Youth. [europepmc]
- Gender-Sexuality Alliance Advisors' Self-Efficacy to Address Transgender Issues: An Interpersonal Protective Factor for Transgender Student Depression. [europepmc]
- Putting Research on LGBTQ+ Youth in Schools to Use: The Stories and Numbers Project. [europepmc]
- White American transgender adults' retrospective reports on the social and contextual aspects of their gender identity development. [europepmc]
- Complicating critical discussions in gender sexuality alliances: Youth desire for intersectional conversations and the experience of fragmentation. [europepmc]
- Out of the Closet, but Not Out of the Woods: The Longitudinal Associations Between Identity Disclosure, Discrimination, and Nonsuicidal Self-Injury Among Sexual Minoritized Young Adults. [europepmc]
- Youth experiences in gender-sexuality alliances predict academic engagement but not disaffection through social-emotional wellbeing. [europepmc]
- LGBTQ+ youth policy and mental health: Indirect effects through school experiences. [europepmc]
- Support from School Personnel and In-School Resources Jointly Moderate the Association Between Identity-Based Harassment and Depressive Symptoms Among Sexual and Gender Diverse Youth. [europepmc]
- Queer and Transgender Joy: A Daily Diary Qualitative Study of Positive Identity Factors among Sexual and Gender Minority Adolescents. [europepmc]
- The impact of school empowerment on the mental health of left-behind children in china: exploring the mediating role of psychological empowerment. [europepmc]
- Hope and Anxiety: A Meta-analytic Review. [europepmc]
- Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Questioning Youths' Disclosure of Their Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Across Contexts: Processes, Decision Making, and Related Experiences. [europepmc]
- Experiences in Gender-Sexuality Alliances and School-Based Victimization Show Limited Differences in Alcohol Use Among Sexual and Gender Minority Adolescents. [europepmc]
- A review of youth mental health in the U.S.: the current landscape, youth perspectives, and strategies for equitable solutions. [europepmc]
- Sexually Transmitted Infections in adolescents and young adults: a growing public health challenge. [europepmc]
Related