TY - JOUR
T1 - Risk and Protective Factors for Homophobic Bullying in Schools
T2 - An Application of the Social-Ecological Framework
AU - Hong, Jun Sung
AU - Garbarino, James
PY - 2012/6
Y1 - 2012/6
N2 - Homophobic bullying is a serious concern for students, parents, teachers, and school officials. This article reviews evidence on the status of this problem and how it may be addressed in a multilevel and multidisciplinary manner growing out of a social-ecological perspective on homophobic bullying as a social phenomenon. The ecological framework developed by Urie Bronfenbrenner (1977, 1979) is applied to organize this effort, which includes micro-, exo-, and macro-systems in which behavior and development are embedded. The inherent fluidity of experience postulated by Bronfenbrenner's ecological approach offers hope that as practices and policy to promote diversity move forward, they will reshape the social ecology of sexual minority youth.
AB - Homophobic bullying is a serious concern for students, parents, teachers, and school officials. This article reviews evidence on the status of this problem and how it may be addressed in a multilevel and multidisciplinary manner growing out of a social-ecological perspective on homophobic bullying as a social phenomenon. The ecological framework developed by Urie Bronfenbrenner (1977, 1979) is applied to organize this effort, which includes micro-, exo-, and macro-systems in which behavior and development are embedded. The inherent fluidity of experience postulated by Bronfenbrenner's ecological approach offers hope that as practices and policy to promote diversity move forward, they will reshape the social ecology of sexual minority youth.
KW - Adolescents
KW - Bullying
KW - Ecological systems theory
KW - Homophobia
KW - Sexual minority
KW - Victimization
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U2 - 10.1007/s10648-012-9194-y
DO - 10.1007/s10648-012-9194-y
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:84860471502
SN - 1040-726X
VL - 24
SP - 271
EP - 285
JO - Educational Psychology Review
JF - Educational Psychology Review
IS - 2
ER -