TriDereka Hall

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Innovations in Honors

Topics, Research Question/Hypothesis, & Annotated Sources

Our group has Sexual Victimization as a topic. We are still determining a solid subtopic,
but we have been looking into the LGBTQQIA community on campus and the issues they might
face. We have started with looking into the club on campus, Spectrum. This club focuses on the
LGBTQQIA community on campus and we believe that they could give us the most information
to work with, just to start. With the information we receive from them, we want to possibly
educate our campus about their realities and start conversation about it because students tend to
be uncomfortable about this topic.
Research Questions:
What are the issues that students who identify in the LGBTQQIA community face on
campus as it pertains to sexual victimization?
What are the effects of sexual victimization of LGBTQQIA students, what resources on
campus would benefit them and how can we effectively educate our campus about their
realities?
References
Edwards, K. M., Littleton, H. L., Sylaska, K. M., Crossman, A. L., & Craig, M. (2016).
College Campus Community Readiness to Address Intimate Partner Violence Among
LGBTQ+ Young Adults: A Conceptual and Empirical Examination. American Journal
Of Community
Psychology, 58(1/2), 16-26.
In this article, it addressed college campus issues for LGBTQ+ students such as intimate partner
violence (IPV). They attempted to receive information about IPV among this group because of
the lack of attention it receives on college campuses in comparison to hetereosexual students.
They utilized a survey to collect information from LGBT+ student across the United States. In
the results, they found that 31.2% of the students reported physical IPV victimization during the
past 2 years and 35.1% reported physical IPV perpetration during the past 2 years. Also, 55.4%
reported no IPV experiences during the past 2 years, 21.8% reported both IPV victimization and
perpetration, 13.4% reported IPV perpetration only, and 9.4% reported IPV victimization only.

Edwards, K. k., & Sylaska, K. (2013). The Perpetration of Intimate Partner Violence among
LGBTQ College Youth: The Role of Minority Stress. Journal Of Youth & Adolescence,
42(11), 1721-1731.
This study assessed how minority stress affects physical, sexual, and psychological partner
violence perpetration among LGBTQ college students. The research questions of the study
 included: What are the rates of perpetration of same-sex partner violence against ones current
partner?; What are the relationships among perpetration of same-sex partner violence and
externalized minority stressors, internalized minority stressors, and same-sex partner violence
victimization? In the study, it utilized the The Revised Conflict Tactics Scale that analyzed
physical, sexual, and psychological victimization the participant may have faced. The study
found that, as it pertained to minority stress, the internalized homonegativity was positively
related to the physical and sexual IPV but was not related to the psychological IPV.

Mustanski, B. b., Greene, G. J., Ryan, D., & Whitton, S. W. (2015). Feasibility, Acceptability,
and Initial Efficacy of an Online Sexual Health Promotion Program for LGBT Youth:
The Queer
Sex Ed Intervention. Journal Of Sex Research, 52(2), 220-230.
This article analyzed the programming of Queer Sex Ed (QSE), an online, multimedia sexual
health intervention. This article attempted to find how easy and accessible it is to get the
participants to participant in the online sexual health intervention. The measurements in the study
included: demographics, The HIV-Risk Assessment for Sexual Partnerships, pretest/posttest
measures, time in intervention, content ratings, and user feedback. To analyze the measurement,
the study utilized the chi square test, independent t-test, Wilcoxon signed-rank test, and
Mann-Whitney U test. The study found that the program was feasible and the participants had a
positive response to the online sexual health intervention.

Sevecke, J. R., Rhymer, K. N., Almazan, E. P., & Jacob, S. (2015). Effects of Interaction
Experiences and Undergraduate Coursework on Attitudes Toward Gay and Lesbian
Issues. Journal Of Homosexuality, 62(6), 821-840.
In this article, it addressed attitudes that people have on lesbian and gay issues. For the method,
the study utilized a setup with eight dependent variables. The eight dependent variables needed
responses from the participants and addressed their own attitudes towards gays and lesbains. And
the data was analyzed with the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). This study
found that if students on campus have more interaction with gay and lesbian people, they are
more likely to accept or understand the issues they face. They also found that having exposure
about the LGBT community in classes effectively make them more comfortable with their issues
as well. This article can be very beneficial to my group in determining an effective approach to
introduce LGBT issues, such as IPV, to the students.

Taylor, J. L. (2015). Call to Action: Embracing an Inclusive LGBTQ Culture on Community

College Campuses. New Directions For Community Colleges, 2015(172), 57-66.
The article is based off of an incident in which a transgender student was wrongly stopped and
questioned by an officer, after going into a womens restroom and the officer thinking she was a
man. The discussion stemming off of this incident addressed the treatment of the LGBT
community on campuses. This article is not a study, but I believe that the information from it is
very beneficial for the group to learn background knowledge of the specific issues this group
may face on our own campus and the prevention of discrimination. Some of the prevention
discussed in the article include policy changes and peer outreach/leadership.