 Factors predicting student intervention when witnessing anti-LGBTQ harassment: The influence of peers, teachers, and climateLaura J. Wernick, Alex Kulick and Marita H. Inglehart Children and Youth Services Review, 2013, vol. 35, issue 2, 296-301 Abstract: Bullying and harassment are systemic problems in schools, especially for sexual minority youth. Previous research suggests the importance of addressing student intervention in cases of bullying, but little is known about how to encourage this kind of intervention, particularly in response to anti-LGBTQ bullying. The present study used data collected through a participatory action research project to examine three factors' impact on students' intentions to intervene: hearing homophobic language, seeing teachers intervene, and seeing other students intervene. In the final model, seeing other students intervene (β=.19, p<.001) had a more significant positive effect on a students' own likelihood to intervene than seeing teachers intervene (β=.07, p<.05). In multivariate analysis, frequency of hearing homophobic language did not impact student's likelihood to intervene. Findings suggest the importance of youth leadership in multi-level anti-bullying programs. Keywords: Sexual minority youth; Transgender; Bullying; Student intervention; Critical youth theory; Role Modeling (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:cysrev:v:35:y:2013:i:2:p:296-301 DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2012.11.003 Access Statistics for this article Children and Youth Services Review is currently edited by Duncan Lindsey More articles in Children and Youth Services Review from Elsevier |
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