TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - How gay-straight alliance groups mitigate the relationship between gay-bias victimization and adolescent suicide attempts
JO  - Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
A1  - Davis, Brennan
A1  - Royne Stafford, Marla B.
A1  - Pullig, Chris
SP  - 1271
EP  - 1278.e1
VL  - 53
IS  - 12
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0890-8567
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2014.09.010
ID  - ref1
ER  -