scholarly journals Rethinking Sexual Initiation: Pathways to Identity Formation Among Gay and Bisexual Mexican Male Youth

2010 ◽  
Vol 40 (6) ◽  
pp. 1241-1254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Héctor Carrillo ◽  
Jorge Fontdevila
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Sexual Initiation ◽  
Male Youth ◽  
And Bisexual

Risk for Attempted Suicide in Gay and Bisexual Male Youth

1992 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Remafedi ◽  
J. A. Farrow ◽  
R. W. Deisher
Keyword(s):  
Attempted Suicide ◽  
Male Youth ◽  
And Bisexual

Youth identity formation: (Mis)alignment between urban male youth and sport coaches

2020 ◽  
pp. 105733
Author(s):  
Tarkington J. Newman ◽  
Benjamin Jefka ◽  
Leeann M. Lower-Hoppe ◽  
Carlyn Kimiecik ◽  
Shea Brgoch ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Male Youth ◽  
Youth Identity ◽  
Sport Coaches ◽  
Urban Male

scholarly journals Tożsamościowe wyzwania kobiet sprawujących opiekę nad dzieckiem w związkach jednopłciowych w świetle koncepcji Vivienne Cass

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 217-244
Author(s):  
Jowita Wycisk Jowita Wycisk
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Orientation ◽  
Identity Development ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Extensive Discussion ◽  
Sexual Orientation Identity ◽  
Parental Identity ◽  
And Bisexual ◽  
Bisexual Identity

Development of the contemporary post-industrial society entails the increasing diversity of family life models. People, making individual choices in this field, face new challenges related to identity formation. In the text presented this issue is discussed on the example of women bringing up children in same-sex relationships. The article presents basic information on the same-sex parenting, underlines the importance of the idea of identity integration in psychology and stresses the lack of contiguity between theories of parental identity development and these ones of homosexual and bisexual identity development. An extensive discussion of the Vivienne Cass’s theory of sexual orientation identity development is the basis for the approximation of potential discrepancies in the identity system of non-heterosexual women taking parental roles. Two main factors relevant to the processes of identity formation were distinguished: the order of the development of the sexual orientation identity and parental identity (the planned and reconstructed families differ in this regard) and the way of establishing and maintaining the relationship with the child (other challenges are faced by biological and social mothers). In the summary, questions requiring future empirical exploration were notified.

Seeking sex online: social and sexual risk factors among adolescent and young gay and bisexual men

Sexual Health ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 217 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guy Shilo ◽  
Zohar Mor
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Sexual Risk ◽  
Risk Behaviour ◽  
Gay And Bisexual Men ◽  
Sexual Risk Behaviour ◽  
Formation Processes ◽  
Bisexual Men ◽  
Risk Behaviours ◽  
And Bisexual ◽  
Sexual Risk Behaviours

Background With the increased use of the Internet to seek sex, research has documented its associated sexual risk behaviours, especially among gay and bisexual men. Only a few studies to date have been conducted among adolescent and young men, and these have focussed on behavioural components to do with seeking sex online, without considering the role of same-sex identity formation processes. The current study aimed to identify behavioural and identity formation variables associated with seeking sex online among adolescents and youth. Methods: A web sampling of young Israeli gay and bisexual men aged 12–30 years (n = 445) was used to assess their seeking sex online characteristics, mental health, sexual risk behaviours, substance use, same-sex disclosure and acceptance and coping resources. Results: Nearly half of the sample used the Internet to seek sex, which was correlated with substance use and sexual risk behaviour. Young adults seek for sex online more commonly than adolescents. Higher numbers of: sexual partners, level of outness, levels of friends support and stronger connectedness to the gay community predicted seeking sex online. Seeking sex online was found to be more of predictor for sexual risk behaviour than any other predictor. Conclusions: Seeking sex online is influenced by the gay sub-culture climate and peer group relationships, rather than by social stressor variables related to sexual orientation formation processes, or by the subject’s general mental health condition. These results underscore the possible risks pertaining to seeking sex among gay and bisexual men and the possible use for this venue to convey safe-sex messages to adolescents and young adults.

scholarly journals ‘Just give up the ball’: In search of a third space in relationships between male youth workers and young men involved in violence

2020 ◽  
pp. 174889582093392
Author(s):  
Pete Harris
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Third Space ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Youth Workers ◽  
Male Youth ◽  
Youth Worker ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
Youth Crime Prevention ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Male Workers

This article critically examines the employment of male youth workers in the field of youth crime prevention. It focuses on how their relationships with young men involved in violence might (or might not) support young men and promote desistance. It does this via the presentation of a single psychosocial case study that examines the relationship between a Black male youth worker and a young Black man who becomes involved in violence and then falls victim to violence to other young men in his neighbourhood. It illuminates how some male workers’ resources of masculine and street capital may be advantageous in terms of reaching some young men, but may also create barriers to reaching others. The study focuses on how both men in the case struggle to ‘give up the ball’ – a metaphor the article adopts for the act of conceding masculine capital in the street field. I suggest that for the relationship to provide the support this young man needed, it required the creation of a third space between him and his youth worker, that is, a vantage point from where they could both examine their masculinity and how this was related to their respective psychic vulnerabilities. I argue that the two men’s investments in different discourses of masculinity were more significant (in terms of the desistance-promoting potential of their relationship) than the similarity in their racial or class backgrounds. The case highlights the need for a more nuanced understanding of youth work relationships and for provision of adequate support and supervision for all male workers that incorporates thorough consideration of their personal and professional identity formation, especially the most heavily gendered aspects.

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