@article{ref1,
title="How gay-straight alliance groups mitigate the relationship between gay-bias victimization and adolescent suicide attempts",
journal="Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry",
year="2014",
author="Davis, Brennan and Royne Stafford, Marla B. and Pullig, Chris",
volume="53",
number="12",
pages="1271-1278.e1",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: We examined the relationships between victimization from being bullied, suicide, hopelessness, and the presence of a Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) on a school campus. <br><br>METHOD: We analyzed data from the California Healthy Kids Survey from 2005 to 2007 using hierarchical modeling. <br><br>RESULTS: We found that gay-bias (versus non-gay-bias) victimization is meaningfully connected with the inwardly destructive behavior of attempted suicide among adolescents. We also found that hopelessness helps explain associations between gay-bias victimization and suicide attempts and that the presence of a GSA club on a school's campus attenuates significant connections between gay-bias victimization and suicide attempts by reducing hopelessness. <br><br>CONCLUSION: Gay-bias victims are more likely than other victims to attempt suicide while also feeling more hopeless. The presence of a GSA on campus may help to reduce the attempted suicide and hopelessness associated with gay-bias victimization.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0890-8567",
doi="10.1016/j.jaac.2014.09.010",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2014.09.010"
}