@article{ref1,
title="Adolescents' judgment of homophobic name-calling: the role of peer/friend context and emotional response",
journal="Journal of youth and adolescence",
year="2021",
author="Wang, Yueyao and Marosi, Christopher and Edgin, Megan and Horn, Stacey S.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Adolescents use some types of homophobic language (e.g., &quot;that's so gay&quot;) as a form of banter, while other types are directly targeted as an intentional insult (e.g., calling someone a &quot;fag, dyke, homo&quot;). Little research has investigated adolescents' use and judgments about these types of homophobic language and whether judgments differ if they are used among friends or directed toward non-friend peers. This study investigated how relationship context and victim's (N = 477, M(age) = 14.7, SD = 1.63) emotional responses related to judgments about anti-gay banter and homophobic name-calling. Adolescents evaluated homophobic name-calling as more wrong than anti-gay banter. While adolescents' evaluations of homophobic name-calling did not differ based on relationship context, adolescents did differentiate between anti-gay banter perpetrated by a friend vs. a peer. Further, emotional responses mediated these relationships in the anti-gay banter situation. These results suggest that adolescents' judgments about homophobic language are related to the relationship context and the type of homophobic language used.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0047-2891",
doi="10.1007/s10964-021-01470-8",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10964-021-01470-8"
}