title: How gay-straight alliance groups mitigate the relationship between gay-bias victimization and adolescent suicide attempts.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  We examined the relationships between victimization from being bullied, suicide, hopelessness, and the presence of a Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA) on a school campus.
  
  
  METHODS
  We analyzed data from the California Healthy Kids Survey from 2005 to 2007 using hierarchical modeling.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We found that gay-bias (versus non-gay-bias) victimization is meaningfully connected with the inwardly destructive behavior of attempted suicide among adolescents. We also found that hopelessness helps explain associations between gay-bias victimization and suicide attempts and that the presence of a GSA club on a school's campus attenuates significant connections between gay-bias victimization and suicide attempts by reducing hopelessness.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Gay-bias victims are more likely than other victims to attempt suicide while also feeling more hopeless. The presence of a GSA on campus may help to reduce the attempted suicide and hopelessness associated with gay-bias victimization.
authors.affiliation: Orfalea College of Business at California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly), San Luis Obispo, CA. Electronic address: bdavis39@calpoly.edu.
authors.forename: Brennan
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Davis
authors.affiliation: Fogelman College of Business at the University of Memphis.
authors.forename: Marla B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Royne Stafford
authors.affiliation: Hankamer School of Business at Baylor University, Waco, TX.
authors.forename: Chris
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Pullig
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D058445:Bullying / Q000523:psychology*; D019548:Crime Victims / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006716:Homosexuality / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D013406:Suicide, Attempted / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: bully; gay; hopelessness; suicide; victimization