Sexual Minority Bullying and Mental Health From Early Childhood Through Adolescence

Mittleman, Joel

doi:10.1016/j.jadohealth.2018.08.020

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“…Previous studies have also shown that sexual minority students often hear the word "gay" used in a derogatory manner (Kosciw et al, 2018). A majority of this group of students also experience bullying and peer victimization as early as in primary school, which later has an impact on their well-being and mental health (Hillard et al, 2014;Mittleman, 2018). Pascoe (2005) argues that homophobic teasing and insults have multiple meanings in boys' use of homophobic language and teasing.…”

Section: The Thin Line Between Teasing and Harassmentmentioning

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Just a Joke? The Thin Line between Teasing, Harassment and Violence among Teenage Boys in Lower Secondary School

Odenbring

Johansson

2020

The Journal of Men’s Studies

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The present article, addresses and discusses thin line between teasing, and violence in lower secondary school. The main aim of the study is to highlight and explore different types of “joking cultures” and lad cultures. This study draws from interviews with ninth grade students conducted at three schools in various geographic locations in Sweden. The results indicate that jokes and fighting for “fun” are recurrent in everyday school life and part of how boys conform in masculinity and homosocial relations. As part of conforming masculinity, boys are not expected to show pain and are expected to take part in homophobic teasing.

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Section: The Thin Line Between Teasing and Harassmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Just a Joke? The Thin Line between Teasing, Harassment and Violence among Teenage Boys in Lower Secondary School

Odenbring

Johansson

2020

The Journal of Men’s Studies

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“…Consistent with the last and main hypothesis (H4), social support from parents and friends and school belonging were collectively responsible for 49%-70% of the association between sexual minority status and health outcomes. The explanatory power of these different support sources in the models was slightly larger than that attributed to family and peer support in earlier United States and Canadian research on various mental health outcomes [22][23][24] and to relationships with parents, peers, and ''class mentors'' in earlier research on depression using a Dutch sample. 25 School belonging played the strongest mediating role in the association between adolescent sexual minority status and health/well-being, suggesting that integration of sexual minority adolescents within schools is critical to closing health disparities.…”

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“…Similarly, using data from the NEXT Generation Health Study, Luk et al 22 concluded that family satisfaction was a significant mediator of the association between sexual minority status and trajectories of depressive symptoms among young adults aged 17-21 years. Analyses of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study by Mittleman 24 yielded similar evidence for peer victimization, which was found to mediate the relationship between sexual minority status and depressive/anxious symptoms among 15-year olds. Outside of the United States, Bos et al 25 identified a mediating role of relationships with parents, peers, and ''class mentors'' in the association between sexual minority status and depression within a sample of 13-15-year-old Dutch adolescents.…”

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confidence: 84%

Health Disparities Between Sexual Minority and Different-Sex-Attracted Adolescents: Quantifying the Intervening Role of Social Support and School Belonging

Perales

Campbell

2020

LGBT Health

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Purpose: An emerging literature documents that sexual minority youth experience significantly and substantially worse health than their heterosexual peers, but few studies have examined the intervening mechanisms linking adolescents' sexual orientation to their health outcomes. This study hypothesized that social support from parents and friends and school belonging would act as important mediators of this relationship and is among the first to test this proposition empirically. Methods: The analyses used rich data from an Australian national probability sample of 14-15-year olds (Longitudinal Study of Australian Children, n = 3204) and regression models to estimate the associations between sexual attraction and four high-quality indicators of adolescent health/well-being capturing health-related quality of life, socio-emotional functioning, depressive symptoms, and life satisfaction. Mediation tests were subsequently performed to quantify the extent to which three scales capturing social support from parents and friends and school belonging mediated the relationships identified. Results: Sexual minority status, social support from parents and friends, and school belonging were significantly related to all health/well-being outcomes. Sexual minority adolescents reported significantly lower levels of support and belonging. Collectively, the support and belonging variables were responsible for 49%-70% of the associations between sexual minority status and the health/well-being outcomes, with school belonging being the most important mediator. Conclusion: These findings have important implications for health equity policy and practice. They suggest that interventions designed to improve the health/well-being of sexual minority adolescents should be directed at eliciting enhanced social support from families and peers and fostering integration at school. School-based interventions may be particularly fruitful.

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“…Research shows that sexual orientation disparities in victimization are evident at young ages, well before many adolescents acknowledge an awareness of their sexual orientation (Martin-Storey & Fish, 2019 ; Mittleman, 2019 ). Might these early experiences of rejection become part of the learning history that sets an early precedent for elevated sexual orientation-specific RS across the life course?…”

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confidence: 99%

The Rejection Sensitivity Model: Sexual Minority Adolescents in Context

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Sexual Minority Bullying and Mental Health From Early Childhood Through Adolescence

Cited by 53 publications

References 29 publications

Just a Joke? The Thin Line between Teasing, Harassment and Violence among Teenage Boys in Lower Secondary School

Just a Joke? The Thin Line between Teasing, Harassment and Violence among Teenage Boys in Lower Secondary School

Health Disparities Between Sexual Minority and Different-Sex-Attracted Adolescents: Quantifying the Intervening Role of Social Support and School Belonging

The Rejection Sensitivity Model: Sexual Minority Adolescents in Context

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