Intersections of gender and sexual minority status: Co-occurring bullying victimization among adolescents

摘要

The present study refined existing bullying literature by examining differences in risk of three types of bullying victimization (offline only, cyberbullying only, and co-occurring victimization) for four different gender-sexual minority status groups using data generated from high-school aged adolescents in the United States. We used data from two years (2011 and 2013) of the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBS) to obtain a final sample of 91,588 individual cases for evaluation with multinomial regression. Generally, results suggest that adolescents who are outside a normal body weight and those belonging to a sexual minority face increased risks of offline and co-occurring victimization. Results also revealed that observed differences in risk of victimization are often significantly different across gender sexual minority status groups leading to disparities in risk for male and female adolescents depending on whether they identify as a sexual minority. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.