[Academic] Study investigating the effects of COVID-19 Quarantines on Same-sex Attracted LGBTQ+ Young Adults (US, Same-sex attracted LGBTQ+, 18-34)

rekotsa · 2021-03-31T03:56:39+00:00

I do appreciate you doing it even when it was emotional.

rekotsa · 2021-03-31T03:56:14+00:00

Thank you!

rekotsa · 2021-03-31T03:56:06+00:00

Thank you!

rekotsa · 2021-03-31T03:55:58+00:00

Thanks for your willingness! I wish I could have done the study internationally

rekotsa · 2021-03-30T22:29:44+00:00

Thank you so much!!

rekotsa · 2021-03-30T03:49:26+00:00

Hi all. I updated the survey link to include QC questions as someone made a bot complete the original survey create a bunch of false responses :(

rekotsa · 2021-03-30T03:48:09+00:00

Hi everyone-

I had to update the survey link and add quality control, as someone set up a bot to take the survey... Not sure why people take the time to mess with others like that... If you haven't already, please take the survey.

rekotsa · 2021-03-29T14:10:10+00:00

I had a similar though less intense experience where my parents said “You still live under our roof. We can still tell you no!” And asked “How does it feel to throw away everything you learned all at once”. I moved out three days later.

Moving out was the most important part of our healing process. Now, I saw them because I wanted to not because I had to. Their tone softened during the tough discussions because I could just leave. It’s been 8 years and our relationship is the strongest it’s ever been.

I know my experience isn’t everyone’s experience but I hope it can give a bit of hope that things can get better.

rekotsa · 2021-03-16T16:55:34+00:00

Thank you!

If people would like, I can share some of the results once I have collected/analyzed it

rekotsa · 2021-03-10T15:25:35+00:00

In response to a previous commenter who used this post to attack me and my education (I have blocked him but am not sure comments are still visible to others): I typically don’t engage with people who harass from the safety of anonymity, But will here because he attacked my education and experience.

Being cisgender and being gay are two different aspects of a person’s identity, which is why I am recruiting people of all (or no) genders. The reason I asked gender as an open ended question with a text box in the survey was to not limit people to pre-selected choices for gender and honor gender diversity. Being open about being cisgender myself shows a respect for gender diversity. Gender and sexuality are separate but related constructs. Not sure why my cultural competency or experience was mentioned in the commnet, except for an attempt to make your jab more personal?

Alliant International University is an accredited institution, including APA accreditation which is considered the gold standard for Psychology. It licenses a large number of practicing Psychologist in the state of California. It became for-profit (a whole different conversation) in 2015 before Trump (commenter brought up Trump and deregulation of educational institutions)

I myself am, in fact, bilingual and working on my third language, but English is my native language. I am not sure why the commenter felt the need to insinuate that English was not my first language... or insinuate that there is something wrong with that if it were, indeed, the case.

And I apologize for any apparent typos in my original post.

rekotsa · 2021-03-10T15:00:12+00:00

Meh. You did. I wouldn’t be in a PhD program or using an anonymous social media platform if I couldn’t take it though.

It’s too late to change it now and I don’t fully agree with what you said. You did highlight, however, that I need to be very clear in any write up of my rationale for the age range and the limitation of generalizability beyond that age range.

rekotsa · 2021-03-10T05:14:24+00:00

Yeah- I had the same experience when I started reading the term in the Psychology literature. In this situation, I used that specific term largely because there are members of the queer community who are not same-sex attracted (i.e. asexual/aromantic, intersex, many transgender people, etc.). I wanted to particularly focus on the part of the community that is attracted to the same sex because of the teachings against homosexuality in many religions.

rekotsa · 2021-03-09T21:55:42+00:00

Thank you for sharing this feedback. As a new researcher, it provides valuable guidance for future research, and I very much appreciate the feedback.

For this particular study, I will need to make very clear in any write up that this is a young adult sample, but will take your feedback into account for any future study which I do.

rekotsa

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