K Ueno
Biographic Data
| ID | 13288 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Ueno |
| GIVEN NAMES | K |
| FAMILY NAME | Ueno |
| SIGNATURE | UENO K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6135-197X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 333 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Workplace Climates, Workplace Structures, and LGBTQ People's Identity Disclosure
Past research shows that workplace conditions influence the degree to which LGBTQ people disclose their sexual and gender identities at work. This suggests that LGBTQ workers may shift their levels of identity disclosure if workplace conditions change, but other research conceptualizes identity disclosure as a political action or a developmental milestone and indicates that disclosure levels are irresponsive to contextual changes. To reconcile th…
LGBQ students’ experiences of heteronormativity in higher education institutions
LGBTQ Young Adults’ Identity Disclosure in the Workplace
Organizational constraints on campus support programs
LGBTQ Young Adults’ Attitudes Toward Workplace Antidiscrimination Policies
Friendships of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer People
Friendships of gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people relate to key issues in sociological research such as inequalities, social segregation, and community organization, and they have important implications for individual and collective well‐being. LGBTQ people receive unique benefits from their friendships with other LGBTQ people, including opportunities to disclose, share, and affirm their sexual and gender identities, as…
Customer harassment against LGBTQ workers
Purpose The authors aimed to identify the nature of customer harassment against lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) workers. Design/methodology/approach The authors analyzed data from in-depth interviews with 30 LGBTQ service workers in the United States who had recently experienced customer harassment. Findings Among various forms of customer harassment LGBTQ workers reported, some showed commonalities with previously reported…
Sexuality Discourses and LGBQ Students' Interpretations of Campus Climate in the Contemporary US
Recent US studies showed that perceptions of campus climate vary considerably across individual LGBQ students, with some students reporting friendly climates and others reporting persistent hostility. Although researchers have identified several factors that contribute to the perceptual variations, they have paid limited attention to the role of sexuality discourses. The present study sought to fill this gap in the literature by analyzing in-dept…
LGBTQ Identities and Career Plan Changes in Young Adulthood
Many young adults change their career plans after spending some time in the labor force, and those who hold marginalized identities change their plans in unique ways as they respond to unfair treatments in workplaces. Past research on this topic focused on (cisgender) women and people of color, and little is known about how LGBTQ people change their career plans. Furthermore, many LGBTQ youth today develop optimistic views that their sexual and g…
Labor Immobility, Stability Discourse, and LGBQ Young Adults’ Career Plans in Japan
Recent US studies showed that many lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer (LGBQ) young adults develop hopeful views about their occupational careers by emphasizing future workplaces’ friendly climates and denying their risk of experiencing discrimination. The results may partly reflect American labor market conditions and social discourses that endorse these views, and little is known about how LGBQ young adults may perceive their career chances and m…
Disparities between Adolescents with and without Disabilities in the Transition to Adulthood
Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), we analyzed whether having any disability and having specific types of disabilities in adolescence were linked to the level of success in the attainment of five adulthood markers: college degree, employment, independent living, marriage, and parenthood. Using Poisson regression, we found a negative association between having a disability and the number of adulthood …
LGBQ college students’ divergent narratives of peer harassment in the southeastern U.S
Gender-Stratified Labor Market, Heterosexual Marriage Expectation, and LGBQ Young Adults' Career Plans in Contemporary Japan
Previous U.S. studies showed that many lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer (LGBQ) young adults hold optimistic views about their occupational careers, despite their risk for facing labor market disadvantages as LGBQ workers. The present study uses Japan as a comparison case and illustrates how young LGBQ people plan their careers in a different national context. Analysis of in-depth interviews shows that many LGBQ young adults in Japan anticipate f…
Leveling Up? Video Game Play in Adolescence and the Transition into Adulthood
Most research on video games has examined short-term psychological consequences, leaving the long-term effect on social outcomes unclear. To address this limitation, this study utilized the life course perspective and tested whether video game play during adolescence lowers the chance of successful transition into adulthood. Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (N = 15,409), logistic regression models tested the ass…
Post-gay, Political, and Pieced Together
Past research has examined straight allyship to the queer community from allies' perspectives, but little is known about how queer people evaluate straight allies. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 20 LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) students from a large, public university in the southeastern United States, we show that respondents formulate their expectations by leaning on their understanding of their own queerness in r…
Sexual Minority Young Adults’ Construction of Workplace Acceptance in the Era of Diversity and Inclusion
In the United States, an increasing number of people have come to express support for sexual minorities in recent decades, and more employers have implemented policies that protect sexual minority workers’ rights. Yet, heteronormativity remains in many workplaces. Considering this ambivalent social context, we examined the extent to which sexual minorities today see their workplaces as accepting and how they develop such a perception. We used a s…
Sexual orientation, partnership status, and work patterns among US young adults
Same-Sex Contact and Lifetime Sexually Transmitted Disease Diagnoses Among Older Adults
Objective: This study examines difference in sexually transmitted disease (STD) prevalence between sexual minority and heterosexual older adults using lifetime experience of same-sex contact (SSC) as a measure of sexual orientation. Method: Data from the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project ( N = 2,519) are analyzed using negative binomial regression and propensity matching models to test for differences in average STD counts by sexual…
Overeducation, perceived career progress, and work satisfaction in young adulthood
This Isn't Just Another Gay Group
This paper examines how members of a southeastern LGBTQ advocacy group privileged heterosexuality through group interactions. Based on twelve months of fieldwork, we analyze how LGBTQ members and their heterosexual allies traded power for (heterosexual) patronage by (1) heterosexualizing their group, (2) sanctifying allies, and (3) privileging parenthood. In so doing, all the members, regardless of their intentions, ultimately reproduced societal…
Sexuality-Free Careers? Sexual Minority Young Adults' Perceived Lack of Labor Market Disadvantages
In recent studies, many young sexual minorities reported that their minority status has not undermined their career plans, despite the persistent heteronormativity in schools, workplaces, and family. By analyzing in-depth interviews of 34 sexual minority young adults, this article examines how they develop such a perception. Their explanations included five elements—distancing themselves from sexual minorities who conformed to stereotypes about t…
Racial-ethnic Identity Pairings and Mental Health of Second-generation Asian Adolescents
Second-generation adolescents experience identity conflict when trying to adapt to the United States. This identity conflict may be compounded for Asians, who experience racialization of their ethnicity. This intensity of identity conflict and racialization of ethnicity is reflected in different pairings of racial and ethnic identities (e.g., Hyphenated-Nationality, Hyphenated-Asian). We examine how these identity pairings are associated with men…
Construction and Management of Stigma Based on a Voluntary-Achieved Status
Previous research on stigma has focused on ascribed personal attributes that are either impossible or difficult to change. Less is known, however, about how people voluntarily join stigmatized groups and manage stigma based on an achieved status. This paper sought to answer this question by focusing on stigma management strategies used by a Humans vs. Zombies (HvZ) gaming organization in a southeastern university. Data were collected through four…
Construction of Status Equality in Friendships between Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Students and Straight Students in College
Focusing on public and formal settings, symbolic interactionists have demonstrated how people produce and reproduce status inequality in social interactions. However, little is known about how people sustain a sense of equality in personal relationships, where people have strong motivations to do so. This study seeks to extend the literature by focusing on friendships between gay, lesbian, and bisexual (GLB) college students and straight college …
Moral Identity in Friendships between Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Students and Straight Students in College
People construct moral identities for being a supportive affiliate of stigmatized groups. To extend past research that focused on such identities within formal organizations, this study seeks to identify the process of moral identity construction in a personal setting-friendships between gay, lesbian, and bisexual (GLB) people and straight people. Analyzing data from in-depth interviews with college students, we show that straight students claim …
Sexual Orientation and Psychological Distress in Adolescence
Adolescents with homosexual and bisexual orientations have higher levels of psychological distress than other adolescents. Drawing from previous studies, I hypothesize that this epidemiological pattern is due largely to the interpersonal problems that sexual minorities experience at home and at school. Analysis of longitudinal data based on a nationally representative sample showed that sexual minorities in fact experienced more problems with the…
The effects of friendship networks on adolescent depressive symptoms
Depression in the United States and Japan
The Continuation of Intimate Partner Violence From Adolescence to Young Adulthood
Little attention has been paid to whether violence in adolescent romantic relationships is associated with relationship violence later in young adulthood. This study examined the continuation of intimate partner violence (IPV) from adolescence to young adulthood. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, results from negative binomial models and propensity score models showed that being victimized by relationship partn…
Gender-Typed Behaviors and School Adjustment
Same-Sex Experience and Mental Health During the Transition Between Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Previous research has demonstrated that people who report same-sex experience tend to have poorer mental health than heterosexual people in adolescence and adulthood. Yet, little is known about how same-sex experience is associated with changes in mental health between the two life stages. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (n = 12,056), this study assesses patterns of same-sex experience between adolescence and …
Moral Identity in Friendships between Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Students and Straight Students in College
People construct moral identities for being a supportive affiliate of stigmatized groups. To extend past research that focused on such identities within formal organizations, this study seeks to identify the process of moral identity construction in a personal setting-friendships between gay, lesbian, and bisexual (GLB) people and straight people. Analyzing data from in-depth interviews with college students, we show that straight students claim …
Mental Health Differences between Young Adults with and without Same-Sex Contact
Previous research has documented that sexual minorities are more likely than heterosexual people to experience mental health problems, but little is known about how these disparities emerge. Analysis of data from Miami-Dade County, Florida, shows that young adults reporting same-sex contact have higher levels of depressive symptoms and drug use than those without such contact, but that different processes explain the disparities in the two outcom…
Same‐Race Friendships and School Attachment
Previous research has demonstrated that students are strongly attached to school when many same‐race peers are present. This study extends the literature by considering students’ immediate social environment at school—egocentric friendship networks. I hypothesized that same‐race friendships contribute to school attachment by increasing the amount of support that students receive for their racial backgrounds in direct interactions. Further, the as…
This Isn't Just Another Gay Group
This paper examines how members of a southeastern LGBTQ advocacy group privileged heterosexuality through group interactions. Based on twelve months of fieldwork, we analyze how LGBTQ members and their heterosexual allies traded power for (heterosexual) patronage by (1) heterosexualizing their group, (2) sanctifying allies, and (3) privileging parenthood. In so doing, all the members, regardless of their intentions, ultimately reproduced societal…
Sexual Orientation, Internal Migration, and Mental Health during the Transition to Adulthood
Previous research has suggested that sexual minorities may have higher rates of migration than heterosexuals, indicating their effort to escape stigma in the currently residing areas. However, direct evidence for the migration pattern has been lacking, and mental health implications of such coping effort have been unclear. This study seeks to fill these gaps in the literature by analyzing the Add Health data, which include longitudinal measures o…
Sexual Orientation and Occupational Attainment
Research shows that sexual minorities and heterosexuals differ in the level of success in educational and earnings attainment, but differences in occupational attainment have been unclear. To extend the literature, this article examines sexual orientation differences in young adulthood occupational status by analyzing the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health Waves 1 to 4. Drawing from the life course literature, a theoretical framewor…
Post-gay, Political, and Pieced Together
Past research has examined straight allyship to the queer community from allies' perspectives, but little is known about how queer people evaluate straight allies. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 20 LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer) students from a large, public university in the southeastern United States, we show that respondents formulate their expectations by leaning on their understanding of their own queerness in r…
SES and race-ethnic differences in the stress-buffering effects of coping resources among young adults
In light of these results, we conclude that a greater understanding of racial and ethnic differences in mental health requires close attention to cultural transmissions of coping strategies within groups, which may be partly responsible for these differences in buffering effects
Patterns of cross-orientation friendships in high schools
Sexuality-Free Careers? Sexual Minority Young Adults' Perceived Lack of Labor Market Disadvantages
In recent studies, many young sexual minorities reported that their minority status has not undermined their career plans, despite the persistent heteronormativity in schools, workplaces, and family. By analyzing in-depth interviews of 34 sexual minority young adults, this article examines how they develop such a perception. Their explanations included five elements—distancing themselves from sexual minorities who conformed to stereotypes about t…
Sexuality Discourses and LGBQ Students' Interpretations of Campus Climate in the Contemporary US
Recent US studies showed that perceptions of campus climate vary considerably across individual LGBQ students, with some students reporting friendly climates and others reporting persistent hostility. Although researchers have identified several factors that contribute to the perceptual variations, they have paid limited attention to the role of sexuality discourses. The present study sought to fill this gap in the literature by analyzing in-dept…
Sexual Minority Young Adults’ Construction of Workplace Acceptance in the Era of Diversity and Inclusion
In the United States, an increasing number of people have come to express support for sexual minorities in recent decades, and more employers have implemented policies that protect sexual minority workers’ rights. Yet, heteronormativity remains in many workplaces. Considering this ambivalent social context, we examined the extent to which sexual minorities today see their workplaces as accepting and how they develop such a perception. We used a s…
Overeducation, perceived career progress, and work satisfaction in young adulthood
Construction of Status Equality in Friendships between Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Students and Straight Students in College
Focusing on public and formal settings, symbolic interactionists have demonstrated how people produce and reproduce status inequality in social interactions. However, little is known about how people sustain a sense of equality in personal relationships, where people have strong motivations to do so. This study seeks to extend the literature by focusing on friendships between gay, lesbian, and bisexual (GLB) college students and straight college …
Assessing Barriers to the Reform of U.S. Mathematics Instruction From an International Perspective
The authors assessed five commonly perceived barriers to increased use of conceptual teaching in mathematics in the United States related to teacher autonomy, trade-offs with computational strategies, student achievement, class size, and teacher qualifications. These barriers were examined through the use of data from nationally representative samples of eighth-grade mathematics classrooms across 38 nations that took part in the Third Internation…
LGBTQ Identities and Career Plan Changes in Young Adulthood
Many young adults change their career plans after spending some time in the labor force, and those who hold marginalized identities change their plans in unique ways as they respond to unfair treatments in workplaces. Past research on this topic focused on (cisgender) women and people of color, and little is known about how LGBTQ people change their career plans. Furthermore, many LGBTQ youth today develop optimistic views that their sexual and g…
LGBQ college students’ divergent narratives of peer harassment in the southeastern U.S
Gender-Stratified Labor Market, Heterosexual Marriage Expectation, and LGBQ Young Adults' Career Plans in Contemporary Japan
Previous U.S. studies showed that many lesbian, gay, bisexual, and queer (LGBQ) young adults hold optimistic views about their occupational careers, despite their risk for facing labor market disadvantages as LGBQ workers. The present study uses Japan as a comparison case and illustrates how young LGBQ people plan their careers in a different national context. Analysis of in-depth interviews shows that many LGBQ young adults in Japan anticipate f…
Construction and Management of Stigma Based on a Voluntary-Achieved Status
Previous research on stigma has focused on ascribed personal attributes that are either impossible or difficult to change. Less is known, however, about how people voluntarily join stigmatized groups and manage stigma based on an achieved status. This paper sought to answer this question by focusing on stigma management strategies used by a Humans vs. Zombies (HvZ) gaming organization in a southeastern university. Data were collected through four…
Perceptions of Social Support Availability and Coping Behaviors Among Gay Men with HIV
Analyzing face-to-face, semistructured interviews, we discuss how perceptions. of social support availability are formed among gay men coping with HIV. Experiences of receiving support increased perceived availability for specific types of support from specific individuals, hut receiving support also gave these men a general sense that someone would be available for assistance. Other aspects of social relationships, such as closeness and role exp…
Sexual Orientation and Psychological Distress in Adolescence
Adolescents with homosexual and bisexual orientations have higher levels of psychological distress than other adolescents. Drawing from previous studies, I hypothesize that this epidemiological pattern is due largely to the interpersonal problems that sexual minorities experience at home and at school. Analysis of longitudinal data based on a nationally representative sample showed that sexual minorities in fact experienced more problems with the…
Assessing Barriers to the Reform of U.S. Mathematics Instruction From an International Perspective
The authors assessed five commonly perceived barriers to increased use of conceptual teaching in mathematics in the United States related to teacher autonomy, trade-offs with computational strategies, student achievement, class size, and teacher qualifications. These barriers were examined through the use of data from nationally representative samples of eighth-grade mathematics classrooms across 38 nations that took part in the Third Internation…
Depression in the United States and Japan
The effects of friendship networks on adolescent depressive symptoms
Friendships of Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual People
Many gay, lesbian, and bisexual individuals first become aware of their orientations in adolescence and are forced to decide who should be told and who should not. Many people make their first disclosures to friends, instead of to parents or other family members (Herdt & Boxer 1993). In this sense, friendships play a critical role in the development of their sexual identities. Friends’ reactions are mixed; some friendships dissolve while others i…
Friends' sexual orientation, relational quality, and mental health among gay, lesbian, and bisexual youth
The existing literature on gay, lesbian, and bisexual (GLB) youth emphasizes unique benefits of having GLB friends, but empirical studies have shown no or only small mental health advantages of having them. To unravel this contradiction, this study tested a common assumption that GLB youth develop better relational quality with their GLB friends than with straight friends. Statistical analysis used interview data from community organization parti…
Same‐Race Friendships and School Attachment
Previous research has demonstrated that students are strongly attached to school when many same‐race peers are present. This study extends the literature by considering students’ immediate social environment at school—egocentric friendship networks. I hypothesized that same‐race friendships contribute to school attachment by increasing the amount of support that students receive for their racial backgrounds in direct interactions. Further, the as…
The History and Timing of Depression Onset as Predictors of Young Adult Self-Esteem
Depression often emerges early in the lifecourse and is consistently shown to be associated with poor self-esteem. The three main objectives of the current study are to (1) evaluate the association between a history major depression and self-esteem in young adulthood; (2) assess the relationship between timing of depression onset and young adult self-esteem; and (3) help rule out the alternative interpretation that the relationship between major …
Gender-Typed Behaviors and School Adjustment
Mental Health Differences between Young Adults with and without Same-Sex Contact
Previous research has documented that sexual minorities are more likely than heterosexual people to experience mental health problems, but little is known about how these disparities emerge. Analysis of data from Miami-Dade County, Florida, shows that young adults reporting same-sex contact have higher levels of depressive symptoms and drug use than those without such contact, but that different processes explain the disparities in the two outcom…
Same-Sex Experience and Mental Health During the Transition Between Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Previous research has demonstrated that people who report same-sex experience tend to have poorer mental health than heterosexual people in adolescence and adulthood. Yet, little is known about how same-sex experience is associated with changes in mental health between the two life stages. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (n = 12,056), this study assesses patterns of same-sex experience between adolescence and …
Patterns of cross-orientation friendships in high schools
Segregation in Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual Youth's Personal Networks
Homophily promotes the development of social relationships within social groups and increases segregation across groups. Although prior research has demonstrated that network segregation operates in many dimensions such as race and gender, sexual orientation has received little attention. This study investigates what accounts for the segregation between gay, lesbian and bisexual friends and straight friends in GLB youth's personal networks by tes…
The association between romantic relationships and delinquency in adolescence and young adulthood
This study examined the association between romantic relationships and delinquency in adolescence and young adulthood. Using a large, longitudinal, and nationally representative sample, results from negative binomial regressions showed a positive association between romantic involvement and delinquency in adolescence. Furthermore, the cumulative number of romantic relationships from adolescence to young adulthood was positively related to delinqu…
Sexual Orientation and Gender Typicality of the Occupation in Young Adulthood
Previous research has shown that sexual minorities are more likely than heterosexuals to work in occupations that are atypical for their genders. This study seeks to extend the literature by examining the association between sexual orientation and gender typicality at the occupational-title level. The analysis focuses on the young adult population and uses data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). Consistent wit…
SES and race-ethnic differences in the stress-buffering effects of coping resources among young adults
In light of these results, we conclude that a greater understanding of racial and ethnic differences in mental health requires close attention to cultural transmissions of coping strategies within groups, which may be partly responsible for these differences in buffering effects
Sexual Orientation and Occupational Attainment
Research shows that sexual minorities and heterosexuals differ in the level of success in educational and earnings attainment, but differences in occupational attainment have been unclear. To extend the literature, this article examines sexual orientation differences in young adulthood occupational status by analyzing the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health Waves 1 to 4. Drawing from the life course literature, a theoretical framewor…
The Continuation of Intimate Partner Violence From Adolescence to Young Adulthood
Little attention has been paid to whether violence in adolescent romantic relationships is associated with relationship violence later in young adulthood. This study examined the continuation of intimate partner violence (IPV) from adolescence to young adulthood. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, results from negative binomial models and propensity score models showed that being victimized by relationship partn…
What Comes Before Why
Does Internal Migration Impact Mental Health Differently for Sexual Minorities and Heterosexuals
Sexual Orientation, Internal Migration, and Mental Health during the Transition to Adulthood
Previous research has suggested that sexual minorities may have higher rates of migration than heterosexuals, indicating their effort to escape stigma in the currently residing areas. However, direct evidence for the migration pattern has been lacking, and mental health implications of such coping effort have been unclear. This study seeks to fill these gaps in the literature by analyzing the Add Health data, which include longitudinal measures o…
Construction of Status Equality in Friendships between Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Students and Straight Students in College
Focusing on public and formal settings, symbolic interactionists have demonstrated how people produce and reproduce status inequality in social interactions. However, little is known about how people sustain a sense of equality in personal relationships, where people have strong motivations to do so. This study seeks to extend the literature by focusing on friendships between gay, lesbian, and bisexual (GLB) college students and straight college …
Moral Identity in Friendships between Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Students and Straight Students in College
People construct moral identities for being a supportive affiliate of stigmatized groups. To extend past research that focused on such identities within formal organizations, this study seeks to identify the process of moral identity construction in a personal setting-friendships between gay, lesbian, and bisexual (GLB) people and straight people. Analyzing data from in-depth interviews with college students, we show that straight students claim …
Racial-ethnic Identity Pairings and Mental Health of Second-generation Asian Adolescents
Second-generation adolescents experience identity conflict when trying to adapt to the United States. This identity conflict may be compounded for Asians, who experience racialization of their ethnicity. This intensity of identity conflict and racialization of ethnicity is reflected in different pairings of racial and ethnic identities (e.g., Hyphenated-Nationality, Hyphenated-Asian). We examine how these identity pairings are associated with men…
Psychology (45 works) · Social Psychology (34 works) · Sociology (31 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (28 works) · Gender Studies (23 works) · Developmental psychology (18 works) · Sexual orientation (17 works) · Political science (16 works) · Social Psychology (16 works) · Lesbian (15 works)