Sexual harassment among adolescents of different sexual orientations and gender identities

Child Abuse and Neglect

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 280-295

  Mitchell, Kimberly J ^a   Ybarra, Michele L ^b   Korchmaros, Josephine D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b Center for Innovative Public Health Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Distress; Gender identity; LGB; Sexual harassment; Sexual orientation; Technology; Transgender

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CENTER FOR EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES DEPRESSION SCALE REVISED; CISGENDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; GENDER NON CONFORMING; HUMAN; IN PERSON SEXUAL HARASSMENT; LGBT PEOPLE; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; ONLINE SEXUAL HARASSMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SELF ESTEEM; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL HARASSMENT; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TEXT MESSAGING; TRANSGENDERISM; VICTIM; BISEXUALITY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNET; LESBIANISM; MALE HOMOSEXUALITY; SELF CONCEPT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRANSGENDER; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; BISEXUALITY; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HOMOSEXUALITY, FEMALE; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; SELF CONCEPT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL HARASSMENT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TRANSGENDERED PERSONS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84896400700     PISSN: 01452134     EISSN: 18737757     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2013.09.008     Document Type: Article

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