Short-Term Prospective Effects of Homophobic Victimization on the Mental Health of Heterosexual Adolescents.
Many heterosexual youth report homophobic victimization but there is little longitudinal research to examine its mental health consequences for them. In a 7-month study across an academic school year among 572 heterosexual high school students (55 % females), we tested the short-term effects of homo...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Youth & Adolescence Vol. 43; no. 8; pp. 1240 - 1252 |
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