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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"bisexuals"”.
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Desafiant els prejudicis a l’entorn educatiu: adolescència, estereotips i visibilitat de dones bisexuals a la ficció seriada
… que l’adolescència percep sobre les dones bisexuals en les ficcions seriades i proposar la construcció de polítiques educatives inclusives. La mostra està formada per 25 adolescents (44% de noies i 66% de nois) d’entre els 13 i 17 anys de diferents nacionalitats. Es fan servir sis grups …
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Affectional Orientation, Sex Roles, and Reasons for Living.
… from the statistical analysis revealed that bisexuals had the lowest reasons for living score followed by gay men/lesbians, and then heterosexuals on the Total RFL, as well as on the Responsiblility to Family and Moral Objections subscales. On the Child-Related Concerns subscale heterosexuals …
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"Making it Work": A Grounded Theory of How Mixed Orientation Married Couples Commit, Sexually Identify, and Gender Themselves
Married bisexuals who come out to their heterosexual partners do not invariably divorce. This qualitative study included 14 intact, mixed orientation married couples. The mean marriage duration was 14.5 years, and the mean time since the bisexual spouse had come out was 7.9 years. The research …
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DSM-5 Eating Disorders and Disordered Eating Behaviors in the LGBT Population
… individual subgroup (i.e., lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender individuals). The results of the review were then used to propose models regarding risk factors for eating disorders and disordered eating behaviors in each LGBT subgroup.</p>
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The Role of Identity in Understanding Prejudice Within the LGBTQ+ Community
… acknowledged the existence of prejudice against bisexuals. Additionally, bisexuality threat, stigma-based solidarity, linked fate, and ingroup representations were significantly correlated with binegativity. Our results provide a first foundational step in a series of studies that will …
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Denying Queer Realities: Scripting the Normative Homo.
… identity. In doing so, they further marginalize bisexuals, transgender individuals, and other queers whose identities challenge the idea that core identities are authentic and immutable-denying the existence of some queer realities, reinforcing normative ideas about sex, gender, and sexuality, …
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Fatores associados à ideação suicida em adolescentes escolares com transtorno mental comum
… live with their parents, declared homosexuals or bisexuals, with a boyfriend and an active sex life are more likely to present suicidal ideation, while being of race /white, behaved as a protective factor for the injury.
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Queer Italy: Contexts, Antecedents and Representations
… plea for civil unions that lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transsexuals and queers are advocating in Italy. The dissertation expands current scholarship concerned with the links between identity, subjectivity and sexuality in Italy. A guiding hypothesis is that long-rooted political and religious …
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Bisexuality, Biphobia, and its Effects on Sexual Identity, Religious Identity and Mental Health: Examining Clinical Implications
… from a societal level (Dyar et al., 2015), bisexuals are more prone to experience sexual orientation instability (Bostwick et al., 2014), and bisexual people report poorer physical and mental health, and higher rates of sexual assault (Israel, 2018). Also, biphobia leads to statements that …
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Social Change in the Media: Gay, Lesbian, Bi, Trans and Queer (GLBTQ) Representation and Visibility in The New York Times: A Critical, Qualitative Social-Historical Content Analysis of The New York Times
… as much business news coverage as lesbians. Bisexuals, transsexuals, transgenders and queers were highly invisible. Overall, a change in the representation and depiction of corporate interest in gays and lesbians was manifested. This socio-historical analysis revealed a shift from …
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Anti-gay violence at the University of Saskatchewan : occurrences, mental and physical health consequences, and perceived effectiveness of support services
… threatening for gay men, lesbians, and bisexuals. Implications of the findings are discussed, including the impact of a non-affirming environment on the identity development of U of S students. Future directions for research and recommendations for an evaluation of support services for …
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License to Discriminate: Structural Stigma and Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Health
… insurance and health care for gay/lesbians and bisexuals. Furthermore, results show that these operationalizations of structural stigma work similarly for both men and women sexual minorities. The second empirical chapter tests whether structural stigma is associated with health insurance and …
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"Blind to Certain Truths": Social Movement Narratives, The Supreme Court, and Cultural Change
… reification of their stories. Lesbian, gay and bisexuals form one group of storytellers whose "collective stories" are told. It is this set of stories that this paper investigates, following the "narrative turn" in sociology to analyze LGB social movement narratives in the empirical setting of …
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Avoiding Stigma by Doing Sexuality: A Qualitative Study of Self-identified Bisexual Men and Women
Bisexual individuals face challenges when disclosing their sexuality to others. Few sociological studies have addressed how, why, and when bisexual individuals "come out" about their sexuality. In particular, little research has explored how bisexual men and women use gender to convey messages of …
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Something holy
This thesis contains two parts: a craft paper on interiority and seven chapters of a young adult social realism novel. The craft paper explores different strategies for “showing and telling” as a means of conveying interiority in faith-based characters, and it analyzes these strategies in two YA …
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Attitudes Toward Homosexuality at Private Colleges
Research examining college students' attitudes toward homosexuality has been consistently reported as generally negative (Herek, 1984a; Malaney, Williams, & Geller, 1997; & Mohr & Sedlacek, 2000). Furthermore, the attitudes of heterosexual college males have reflected higher levels of negativity …
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Sexual risk taking among young LGBT individuals: examining the interplay between shame memories and fears of compassion
<p>Though there is a growing body of research concerning the impact that shame experiences can have on an individual, there is a paucity of research about what variables may mediate the relationship between central, shameful memories and resulting self-harming behavior. The purpose of this study …