Differences in Parental Monitoring Components and Their Associated Health Indicators Between Sexual-Minority and Heterosexual Girls

ABSTRACT

Our study sought to assess whether parental monitoring and their associations with health behaviors differed for heterosexual girls compared to sexual-minority girls (girls who identified as lesbian or bisexual, endorsed same-sex attraction, or had same-sex romantic or sexual partners). We analyzed three components of parental monitoring—adolescent disclosure, parental solicitation, and parental knowledge—between heterosexual and sexual-minority girls. We also tested if the associations between these three constructs and adolescent relationship abuse, suicidality, heavy drinking, binge drinking, anxiety symptoms, and depressive symptoms were different for heterosexual girls compared to sexual-minority girls. Sexual-minority girls were less likely to disclose accurately to their parents their location and activities and perceived their parents asked less and knew less about their location and activities than did heterosexual girls. Heterosexual girls who reported higher levels of adolescent disclosure were less likely than were sexual-minority girls to report suicidality and anxiety symptoms. Additionally, heterosexual girls who reported higher levels of parental knowledge were also less likely than were sexual-minority girls to report anxiety and depressive symptoms. These findings suggest that parental monitoring may not be as protective for sexual-minority girls as it is for heterosexual girls.     

Reports of Conferences, Institutes, and Seminars

This quarter's column features reports from the Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians annual conference, held May 15–17, 2011, wherein linked data and the Semantic Web were discussed, in addition to satisfying niche needs in cataloging and acquisitions among other topics; the MOBIUS Conference, held June 7–9, 2011, which featured talks on the proper application of Web 2.0 technologies, staff cross-training, and the use of Adobe Captivate to create video tutorials; and, the Special Libraries Association annual conference, held June 12–15, 2011, featuring content aggregation and disaggregation, an overview of RDA, and a broad discussion of standards for technical services, to name a few.     

"Fag church": men who integrate gay and Christian identities

It is usually assumed that being gay or lesbian and being Christian is contradictory. The eight men who participated in this qualitative inquiry demonstrate otherwise. I investigated the ways in which these men integrated their gay and Christian identities meaningfully into their lives. From the interview data, I discerned and describe in this paper a variety of strategies that these men adopted in order to facilitate identity integration of seemingly mutually exclusive identities. In the bid for social and political equality with heterosexuals, gays and lesbians typically have not received support from Christians, at least not from politically active Christians, many of whom participate in explicitly antigay campaigns. Given such a contentious context, I discuss the personal and political implications of integrating gay and evangelical Christian identities.     

人类学者为何要研究灾难

人类学家对灾难研究的兴趣甚早,但长期以来局限于个案的探索,缺乏理论和方法论的系统思考。安东尼·奥利弗-史密斯和苏珊娜·M·霍夫曼从人类学对灾难的定义以及相关学术动态开始讨论,涉及了与生态、物质和社会-文化联结的人类学灾难研究的理论与方法,并辅以相关的文章,对人类学灾难研究的贡献和对地方场景中救援与重建的潜在价值进行了描述。