Brennan Davis1, Marla B Royne Stafford2, Chris Pullig3. 1. Orfalea College of Business at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly), San Luis Obispo, CA. Electronic address: bdavis39@calpoly.edu. 2. Fogelman College of Business at the University of Memphis. 3. Hankamer School of Business at Baylor University, Waco, TX.
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. METHOD: We analyzed data from the California Healthy Kids Survey from 2005 to 2007 using hierarchical modeling. 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. 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.
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. METHOD: We analyzed data from the California Healthy Kids Survey from 2005 to 2007 using hierarchical modeling. 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. 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.
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