TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2015//
TI  - Explaining self-harm: youth cybertalk and marginalized sexualities and genders
JO  - Youth and society
A1  - McDermott, Elizabeth
A1  - Roen, Katrina
A1  - Piela, Anna
SP  - 873
EP  - 889
VL  - 47
IS  - 6
N2  - This study investigates self-harm among young lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans (LGBT) people. Using qualitative virtual methods, we examined online forums to explore young LGBT people's cybertalk about emotional distress and self-harming. We investigated how youth explained the relationship between self-harm and sexuality and gender. We found that LGBT youth may articulate contradictory, ambiguous, and multiple accounts of the relationship but there were three strong explanations: (a) self-harm was because of homophobia and transphobia; (b) self-harm was due to self-hatred, fear, and shame; (c) self-harm was emphatically not related to sexuality or gender. There was evidence of youth negotiating LGBT identities, managing homophobia, resisting pathologization, and explaining self-harm as a way of coping.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0044-118X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0044118X13489142
ID  - ref1
ER  -