Bisexual Youth in Risk and Resilience Studies

风险和复原力研究中的双性恋青少年

• 批准号: 6528887
• 负责人: Elizabeth Marie Saewyc
• 金额: $ 29.4万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-09-20 至 2004-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6528887
• 关键词: adolescence (12-20); behavioral /social science research tag; bisexual; health behavior; heterosexuals; homosexuals; human data; mathematical model; mental health; model design /development; socioeconomics

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of the proposed research by this new investigator and colleagues is to empirically derive operational definitions of bisexuality, and to explore patterns of demographic factors, mental health symptoms, health indicators, risk behaviors, and associated protective factors among bisexual adolescents as compared to their heterosexual or gay/lesbian peers. This will be accomplished through a series of secondary analyses replicated in ten large-scale adolescent surveys of health and risk behaviors, from the United States and Canada, each of which included items pertaining to sexual orientation. Across all the datasets, approximately 4 percent of students identified as bisexual or reported bisexual attractions or behaviors. Within each of the 10 adolescent health datasets, the following aims drive the research plan: AIM I: Empirically derive various operational definitions of bisexuality, based on self-identification, attraction, or behavior, and multidimensional models where possible within each dataset, in order to identify approaches to sexual orientation that can guide the subsequent analyses. As part of this process, describe patterns of demographic factors, including gender, age, family variables, ethnic and socioeconomic indicators, and community contexts, associated with bisexual adolescents as compared to gay/lesbian and to heterosexual adolescents. AIM II: Identify the association of bisexual orientation and behavior with health and risk behaviors in the areas of mental health, sexual health, substance use, safety, violence, and victimization, school performance, as compared to the associations among heterosexual and gay/lesbian respondents, with further examination of sub-samples grouped by gender, age, or ethnicity where feasible based on measurement and sample size considerations. AIM III: Identify protective factors associated with reduced prevalence of risk behaviors or with positive health indicators among bisexual adolescents in those domains identified in Aim II. AIM IV: Develop multivariate models of risk and protective factors relative to selected health indicators that differentiate bisexual adolescents from lesbian/gay and heterosexual adolescents. The replication of analyses within ten different data sets, across time and from different regions of North America, provides opportunities for establishing a base of knowledge about this population which can guide future research priorities and analytic strategies, health policy, and programmatic changes.

描述（由申请人提供）：这位新研究者和同事提出的研究目标是凭经验得出可操作的 双性恋的定义，并探索人口因素的模式， 心理健康症状、健康指标、危险行为和相关 与异性恋青少年相比，双性恋青少年的保护因素 或同性恋同龄人。这将通过一系列辅助措施来完成 十项大规模青少年健康和风险调查重复了分析 来自美国和加拿大的行为，其中每个都包含项目 与性取向有关。在所有数据集中，大约有 4 被认定为双性恋或报告有双性恋吸引力的学生的百分比，或 行为。在 10 个青少年健康数据集中，每个数据集的目标如下 推动研究计划： 目标 I：根据经验得出双性恋的各种操作定义 关于自我认同、吸引力或行为以及多维模型 在每个数据集中尽可能确定性行为的方法 可以指导后续分析的方向。作为这个过程的一部分， 描述人口因素的模式，包括性别、年龄、家庭 变量、种族和社会经济指标以及社区背景， 与男同性恋/女同性恋相比，与双性恋青少年有关 异性恋青少年。 目标 II：确定双性恋取向和行为与 心理健康、性健康、 物质使用、安全、暴力和受害、学校表现等 与异性恋和男同性恋/女同性恋受访者之间的关联相比， 进一步检查按性别、年龄或种族分组的子样本 根据测量和样本量的考虑，在可行的情况下。 目标 III：确定与降低风险发生率相关的保护因素 双性恋青少年的行为或具有积极的健康指标 目标 II 中确定的那些域。 目标 IV：开发与相关风险和保护因素相关的多变量模型 选定的健康指标将双性恋青少年与 女同性恋/男同性恋和异性恋青少年。 在十个不同的数据集中跨时间和跨度复制分析 来自北美不同地区的，为 建立有关该人群的知识基础，以指导未来 研究重点和分析策略、卫生政策和规划 变化。