Page, M. J. L., Lindahl, K. M. and Malik, N. M. (2013). The Role of Religion and Stress in Sexual...

1. Ethnic Demographic in Research Report

1.1. 7% Other or Mixed Ethnicity

1.2. 21% African American

1.3. 35% White Non-Hispanic

1.4. 37% Hispanic American

2. Religious Demographic in Research Report (before coming out to self)

2.1. Jewish 6%

2.2. Catholic 33%

2.3. Hindu, Muslim, Pagan and nondenominational 5%

2.4. None 18%

2.5. Agnostic or Atheist 4%

2.6. Other Christian 35%

3. Sexual Identification Demographic in Research Report

3.1. Gay Male 47%

3.2. Lesbian 31%

3.3. Bisexual Male 8%

3.4. Bisexual Female 14%

4. Spiritual Comfort

4.1. Religion as a Source of Understanding

4.2. Religion as a Source of Reassurance

5. Spiritual Conflict

5.1. Feelings of Betrayal

5.2. Doubts about Religion

5.3. Feelings of Rejection

6. Psychological Effect

6.1. Religious Stress

6.2. Depression

6.3. Anxiety

6.4. Gay Related Stress

6.5. Low Self-Esteem

6.6. Feelings of Rejection

7. Society Reaction

7.1. Negative Peer Reaction

7.2. Violence

7.3. Negative Family Reaction

8. Sexual Orientation Conflict

8.1. Negative LGB Identity

8.2. No Self Love

8.3. Internalised Homonegativity

9. Methodology and Methods

9.1. • Yes this is a quantitative research paper that has investigated religious stress gay related stress, sexual identity and mental health outcomes in lesbian, gay and bisexual adolescents and emerging adults.

9.2. It is using a large number of people being interviewed and questionnaires involved

9.3. • To be eligible for the research you had to be in the LGB Community and they used adolescent from high schools, LGB organizations, the internet and by word of mouth

9.4. • Both of the methodology and the methods worked well for the research.

10. Topic: The role of religion and stress in sexual identity and mental health among LBG Youth.

11. Page, M. J. L., Lindahl, K. M. and Malik, N. M. (2013). The Role of Religion and Stress in Sexual Identity and Mental Health Among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youth. Reference from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3828207/pdf/nihms429021.pdf

12. Good internal consistency was found in the current study (α = .76 to .82), similar to previous findings (see Mohr & Fassinger, 2000)

13. The Difficult Process scale assesses how uncomfortable, unnatural, and difficult the process of sexual orientation development has been for the participant. Initial evidence of satisfactory reliability and validity has been established for the LGIS (Mohr & Fassinger, 2000).

14. Reference

15. Question:                                        The article's methodology, introduction, abstract title and conclusion appeares to be asking the question of,  What role does religion, stress in sexual identity and mental health play among LGB youth?

15.1. My prediction from the question is that this is a quantitative study simply because of its structured data collection, its statistics.

15.2. It will have measureable data that formulates facts and uncover patterns in society.

15.3. o The research uses quantify attitudes, opinions, and behaviours and will have results from a larger sample population.

15.4. • This question will look at the role of religion on LGB youth and the stressors that are caused by religion psychological as well.

15.5. • The methods and methodology will include data and test.

16. Sample and Sampling

16.1. • As the study is Quantitative research, the sample focused on a larger group of people.

16.2. • This uses a Stratified sample because I think that from a big group of all adolescent that come from high school, sports clubs, homeless adolescent they then cut it down to LGB adolescent that are 14-24 years of age.

16.3. • As quantitative research I think it was okay for them to do so because other sampling wouldn’t have worked well in this research.

17. Analysis

17.1. • Preliminary analyses were conducted to examine whether the sample differed by sexual orientation

18. Reliability and Validity

18.1. • In the research paper talks about how reliable and validity the article.

19. Role of Statistics (which Data)

19.1. Ordinal: its ordinal because  it is the order of the values is what’s important and significant and in this research paper the questionnaire was formed around rating on a 5 point likeart scale from 1 Strongly disagree to 5 strongly agree

20. • Paradigm – Positivist/ Positivist

20.1. Positivist/ Positivist because its Statistics are establishing trust and differences –

20.2. or could be Feminist exploring gendered differences and perspectives.