Young people who suffer domestic violence from their parents or legal guardians are more likely to develop psychopathological conditions, as well as disruptive externalizing behavior. In LGBTQI+ youth, this violence has a much more expressive intensity because it touches theirs's sexual identity. Although little is known about how’s that violence contribute for the development of internalized homophobia and transphobia. Domestic violence against young people is often poorly identified by professionals (Tomás, Fernandes Sani, & Martins, 2018) and a large body of literature documents that LGBTQI+ youth in the general population are exposed to elevated levels of mistreatment when compared to their non-LGBTQI+ counterparts (D’Augelli et al., 2006; Kosciw et al., 2016).
This project is composed by tree different studies that we will try to characterize the phenomena by different publics (victims, victim support technicians and Associative leaders of LGBTQI+ associations), Analyze whether the development of a negative identity by LGBTQI+ youth mediate the relationship between the experience of domestic violence and low levels of wellbeing and analyze that professional's personal belief about sexual orientation and gender identity mediates the dentification of violence against LGBTQI+ children and youth.
Marta Matos
Investigadora Integrada - Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Social (CIS_Iscte)
Cocoordenadora Health For All Research Group

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