Greater Engagement Among Members of Gay-Straight Alliances: Individual and Structural Contributors

V. Paul Poteat; Nicholas C. Heck; Hirokazu Yoshikawa; Jerel P. Calzo

doi:10.3102/0002831216674804

Greater Engagement Among Members of Gay-Straight Alliances: Individual and Structural Contributors

V. Paul Poteat, Nicholas C. Heck, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Jerel P. Calzo

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Using youth program models to frame the study of Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs), we identified individual and structural predictors of greater engagement in these settings with a cross-sectional sample of 295 youth in 33 GSAs from the 2014 Massachusetts GSA Network Survey (69% LGBQ, 68% cisgender female, 68% White,M_age =16.07). Multilevel modeling results indicated that members who perceived more support/socializing from their GSA, had more LGB friends, were longer serving members, and were in GSAs with more open and respectful climates reported greater engagement. Further, there was a curvilinear association between organizational structure in the GSA and engagement: Perceptions of more structure were associated with greater engagement to a point, after which greater structure was related to less engagement.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1732-1758
Number of pages	27
Journal	American Educational Research Journal
Volume	53
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3102/0002831216674804
State	Published - Dec 1 2016

Keywords

Gay-Straight Alliance
bisexual
engagement
gay
lesbian
organizational structure
transgender
youth programs

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Education

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