The Role of Perceived Gay-Straight Alliance Social Support in the Longitudinal Association Between Homophobic Cyberbullying and LGBTQIA Adolescents' Depressive and Anxiety Symptoms.

There has been little research attention given to how Gay-Straight Alliances might mitigate mental health consequences associated with experiencing homophobic cyberbullying. To address this gap in knowledge, the purpose of this one-year longitudinal study was to investigate the moderating effect of...

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Published in:Journal of Youth & Adolescence Vol. 51; no. 7; pp. 1388 - 1397
Main Authors: Wright, Michelle F., Wachs, Sebastian, Gámez-Guadix, Manuel
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Published: Springer Nature Jul2022
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          Wright, Michelle F.
          Wachs, Sebastian
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          Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, 16802, Pennsylvania, PA, USA
          Department of Psychology, DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA
          Faculty of Human Sciences, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
          Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
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        Prevention of cyberbullying
        Prevention of mental depression
        Mental illness prevention
        School health services
        Social support
        Psychology of LGBTQ+ people
        Homophobia
        Victim psychology
        Mental depression
        Empirical research
        Anxiety
        Cyberbullying
        Psychosocial factors
        Adolescence
        Anxiety prevention
        Descriptive statistics
        Longitudinal method
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          Prevention of cyberbullying
          Prevention of mental depression
          Mental illness prevention
          School health services
          Social support
          Psychology of LGBTQ+ people
          Homophobia
          Victim psychology
          Mental depression
          Empirical research
          Anxiety
          Cyberbullying
          Psychosocial factors
          Adolescence
          Other Individual and Family Services
          Anxiety prevention
          Descriptive statistics
          Longitudinal method
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        Depression
        Gay-Straight Alliance
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      ab: There has been little research attention given to how Gay-Straight Alliances might mitigate mental health consequences associated with experiencing homophobic cyberbullying. To address this gap in knowledge, the purpose of this one-year longitudinal study was to investigate the moderating effect of perceived social support from Gay-Straight Alliances in the relationships among homophobic cyberbullying victimization and bystanding and depressive and anxiety symptoms among 466 LGBTQIA adolescents (M = 15.76; 52% female). The findings revealed that perceived social support was related negatively to homophobic cyberbullying involvement and depressive and anxiety symptoms. Homophobic cyberbullying involvement was related positively to depressive and anxiety symptoms. High perceived social support buffered against the depressive and anxiety symptoms resulting from homophobic victimization and bystanding among LGBTQIA adolescents but low levels and average levels did not moderate these associations. These findings highlight the importance of expanding Gay-Straight Alliances in schools.
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