TY - JOUR
T1 - Aspects of psychological resilience among transgender youth
AU - Grossman, Arnold H.
AU - D'Augelli, Anthony R.
AU - Frank, John A.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors acknowledge the staff and volunteers of the agencies who cooperated in recruiting the participants; and also thank the study participants for contributing their information to the research study. This research was supported by the Research Challenge Fund of New York University.
PY - 2011/4
Y1 - 2011/4
N2 - Fifty-five transgender youth described their gender development and some of the stressful life experiences related to their gender identity and gender expression. More than two-thirds of youth reported past verbal abuse by their parents or peers related to their gender identity and nonconformity, and approximately one-fifth to one-third reported past physical abuse. The more gender nonconforming the youth were, the more abuse they reported. Four aspects of psychological resilience were examined: a sense of personal mastery, self-esteem, perceived social support, and emotionoriented coping. A regression model of the selected aspects of resilience accounted for 40%-55% of the variance in relation to depression, trauma symptoms, mental health symptoms, and internalizing and externalizing problems. Emotion-oriented coping was a significant predictor of negative mental health as determined by each of the mental health variables.
AB - Fifty-five transgender youth described their gender development and some of the stressful life experiences related to their gender identity and gender expression. More than two-thirds of youth reported past verbal abuse by their parents or peers related to their gender identity and nonconformity, and approximately one-fifth to one-third reported past physical abuse. The more gender nonconforming the youth were, the more abuse they reported. Four aspects of psychological resilience were examined: a sense of personal mastery, self-esteem, perceived social support, and emotionoriented coping. A regression model of the selected aspects of resilience accounted for 40%-55% of the variance in relation to depression, trauma symptoms, mental health symptoms, and internalizing and externalizing problems. Emotion-oriented coping was a significant predictor of negative mental health as determined by each of the mental health variables.
KW - Gender
KW - Identity development
KW - Psychological resilience
KW - Transgender
KW - Youth
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U2 - 10.1080/19361653.2011.541347
DO - 10.1080/19361653.2011.541347
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79954455093
SN - 1936-1653
VL - 8
SP - 103
EP - 115
JO - Journal of LGBT Youth
JF - Journal of LGBT Youth
IS - 2
ER -