Department of Human Development and Family Sciences, University of Connecticut, 348 Mansfield Road, U-1058, Storrs, CT, 06269, USA.
Department of Family Science, University of Maryland, 1142 Valley Drive, College Park, MD, 20742, USA.
Prev Sci. 2021 Jul;22(5):590-601. doi: 10.1007/s11121-021-01216-9. Epub 2021 Feb 20.
Although scholarship continues to document higher rates of alcohol use for sexual and gender minority (SGM) youth compared with heterosexual and cisgender youth, research identifying factors that mitigate SGM youths' risk is nascent. Youth spend substantial time in schools; therefore, teachers could play significant roles in attenuating these health concerns. We used data from a nationwide survey of 11,189 SGM youth (M = 15.52; 67.7% White) to explore whether perceived teacher social-emotional support attenuated the association between victimization and alcohol use, further conditioned by youths' specific ethnoracial identity. As expected, victimization was associated with more frequent alcohol use; however, greater perceived teacher support attenuated this association. The attenuating effect of perceived teacher support was significantly stronger for Hispanic/Latinx youth than White youth. Our findings have implications for alcohol use prevention among SGM youth, who face significant marginalization in schools and society. If we are to prevent alcohol use disparities among SGM youth, scholars and stakeholders (e.g., school administrators, teachers) should invest in building teacher efficacy to intervene in SGM-specific victimization.
尽管学术研究不断记录到性少数群体和跨性别青年（SGM）比异性恋和顺性别青年有更高的酒精使用率，但识别减轻 SGM 青年风险因素的研究仍处于起步阶段。年轻人在学校花费了大量的时间；因此，教师可以在减轻这些健康问题方面发挥重要作用。我们使用了一项全国性调查的 11189 名 SGM 青年（M=15.52；67.7%为白人）的数据，来探讨是否感知到的教师社会情感支持减轻了受害与酒精使用之间的关联，而这种关联进一步受到青年特定的种族身份的影响。正如预期的那样，受害与更频繁的酒精使用有关；然而，更大的感知到的教师支持减轻了这种关联。对于西班牙裔/拉丁裔青年来说，感知到的教师支持的这种减轻作用比白人青年更为明显。我们的研究结果对 SGM 青年的酒精使用预防具有启示意义，他们在学校和社会中面临着严重的边缘化。如果我们要防止 SGM 青年之间的酒精使用差距，学者和利益相关者（如学校管理人员、教师）应该投资于建立教师效能感，以干预 SGM 特定的受害事件。
