Tracey Peters
Biographic Data
| ID | 177372 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tracey Peters |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tracey |
| FAMILY NAME | Peters |
| SIGNATURE | PETERS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manitoba |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9091-0187 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 88 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The impact of school attachment and parental involvement on the positive mental health of 2SLGBTQ + students during Covid-19
On March 11th, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the worldwide outbreak of COVID-19 as a pandemic. On the following day, the Ontario government (Canada’s most populous province) ordered all public schools to close. By Monday, March 16th, 2020, all public schools (and most private schools) in Canada announced plans to physically shutter schools, with a shift to remote and online learning to follow soon after. This unprecedented sh…
Educators’ Reasons for Not Practising 2SLGBTQ+ Inclusive Education
In this article, we analyze educators’ self-reported reasons for not addressing LGBTQ topics in their schools in order to develop a clearer picture of the barriers that prevent educators from engaging in LGBTQ-supportive practices. Using hierarchal OLS (ordinary least squares) and logistic regression models to analyze the impacts of demographic, individual-based, and school-based barriers to practising LGBTQ inclusive education, we found that the…
Department Culture in Canadian Sciences & Engineering: An Empirical Test of the Culture Conducive to Women’s Academic Success Model
We tested four proposed dimensions of a Culture Conducive to Women's Academic Success (CCWAS; i.e., supportive leadership, freedom from gender bias, equal access to opportunities, and support for work-life balance) on a sample of women faculty from Canadian Natural Sciences and Engineering (NSE) departments/units. The results of our serial and parallel mediation analysis confirmed the CCWAS dimensions, and further indicated that a positive NSE de…
Conceptualizing Gender: Lessons from the Canadian Trans Youth Health Survey
As discussions of gender identity become more widespread, the definitions of sex and gender both fluctuate and stabilize in new ways. In this article, we draw on qualitative and quantitative data from the first Canadian Trans Youth Health Survey (CTYHS) to analyze how young trans people articulate modern definitions of gender, gender identity, and sex. The CTYHS was an anonymous online survey that had 923 trans youth participants aged 14-25. It i…
Elementary Teachers' Experiences with LGBTQ-inclusive Education: Addressing Fears with Knowledge to Improve Confidence and Practices
This article presents the findings from a national study on the experiences of educators with gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) topics in elementary schools and recommendations for practice based in our experiences as classroom teachers and teacher educators. Using responses to open-ended questions that were part of a large-scale survey, we discuss the ways LGBTQ content is being included in PK-5 classrooms and the challenges…
Mind the gap: Predicting the positive mental health of adult sexual minority Canadians
The goal of the study is to investigate possible predictors of positive mental health, and whether they differ across sexual identity adult groups. Using data from the 2012 Canadian Community Health Survey on Mental Health, multivariate analyses were conducted, including interaction terms, to assess the effects of sexual orientation on various mental illness, health-risk behaviors, and sociological indicators and their correlations with positive …
Evidence of changing patterns in mental health and depressive symptoms for sexual minority adolescents
Depression, sadness, low self-esteem, and self-harm affect a substantial number of young people in North America. However, the prevalence of these symptoms has been found to be consistently higher for sexual minority (i.e., lesbian, gay, bisexual) populations. In this study, we traced the trends and disparities in mental health, including self-harm, forgone mental health care, good feelings, feelings of sadness, and feeling good about oneself, wi…
A Call for “Trans-action”: The Role of Enacted Stigma in Mediating the Relationship between School Climate and School Attachment among Gender Minority Students
Several studies have highlighted the association between enacted stigma with various mental health and educational disparities among sexual minority students, but fewer have done so with an exclusive gender minority sample and even less have included school attachment as an outcome measure. The purpose of the current analyses is to test the main effects that an LGBTQ-inclusive school context as well as enacted stigma has on school attachment, and…
More Than a Feeling? An Empirical Analysis of the Dual-Continua Model on a National Sample of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Identified Canadians
The goal of the study is to investigate whether positive mental health complements mental illness within a theoretically informed (the dual-continua model) and psychometrically tested (the Mental Health Continuum-Short Form) framework. National-level, population-based data from the 2012 Canadian Community Health Survey on Mental Health (CCHS-MH) was used, with comparisons between sexual minority and heterosexual adults. Results show that gay, les…
Mental Health Disparities Among Canadian Transgender Youth
“You can't break…when you're already broken”: The importance of school climate to suicidality among LGBTQ youth
Suicide has been a longstanding problem among sexual and gender minority youth in Canada. The goal of the article is to examine the link between suicidality and school climate within a theoretically informed framework and a mixed methods approach. Qualitative and quantitative findings are presented using data from more than 3,700 secondary students from the National Climate Survey of Homophobia and Transphobia in Canadian Schools (Taylor & Peter,…
Trends in suicidality among sexual minority and heterosexual students in a canadian population-based cohort study
These findings have important public health implications, especially since we see decreases in suicidal behaviour for heterosexual adolescents, but not in the same way for many sexual minority youth, despite advances in social acceptance of gay, lesbian, and bisexual issues in North America
Gaps between beliefs, perceptions, and practices: The Every Teacher Project on LGBTQ-inclusive education in Canadian schools
The Every Teacher Project involved large-scale survey research conducted to identify the beliefs, perspectives, and practices of Kindergarten to Grade 12 educators in Canadian public schools regarding lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ)–inclusive education. Comparisons are made between LGBTQ and cisgender heterosexual participants, between participants teaching at different grade levels, and between participants in school distr…
Perspectives on gender and sexual diversity (GSD)-inclusive education: Comparisons between gay/lesbian/bisexual and straight educators
This paper presents findings from a national study on the beliefs and practices of K-12 educators regarding lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) issues in schools. Over 3400 Canadian educators participated in the study, which took the form of a bilingual (English/French) online survey. Respondents answered questions about their values regarding human rights and LGBTQ-inclusive education, their practices in the classroom, experie…
Pride and Prejudice: Factors Affecting School Attachment Among Lesbian, Bisexual, and Heterosexual Girls
School attachment is often regarded as a key measure in gauging the integration and wellbeing of students. Previous research suggests that levels of school attachment are generally lower among sexual minority students, but most studies focus on between-gender comparisons and do not conduct within-gender analyses. Using data from the First National Climate Survey on Homophobia and Transphobia in Canadian schools, this study set out to empirically …
A Queer Day in Canada: Examining Canadian High School Students' Experiences With School-Based Homophobia in Two Large-Scale Studies
The goal of the study is to examine how location (nationally, compared to Canadian regions) is related to indicators of a hostile school environment for sexual minority youth, particularly when physical abuse is used as the outcome variable. Data representing 5,766 Canadian students were analyzed using bivariate and multivariate techniques. Results from the multivariate analyses showed that non-physical abuse was the most significant predictor of…
‘Give Me a Reason to Live!’ Examining Reasons for Living Across Levels of Suicidality
Buried Above Ground: A University-Based Study of Risk/Protective Factors for Suicidality Among Sexual Minority Youth in Canada
This study examined differences in suicidal behavior between lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning (LGBTQ) and non-LGBTQ university students as well as investigated the importance of risk and protective factors in the prediction of suicidality between these two groups. A total of 1,205 university students participated in the survey. Findings show, compared to non-LGBTQ respondents, sexual minority youth are at a greater risk …
Gendered Habitus and Gender Differences in Academic Achievement
Bourdieu's theory of cultural and social reproduction posits that students' habitus-learned behavioural and perceptual dispositions rooted in family upbringing-is a formative influence on how they react to their educational environments, affecting academic practices and academic achievement. Although originally conceived as a "class" variant construct, it has been argued subsequently that habitus is also conditioned by gender socialization, and s…
Disparities in Academic Achievement: Assessing the Role of Habitus and Practice
We Are Not Aliens, We're People, and We Have Rights.” Canadian Human Rights Discourse and High School Climate for LGBTQ Students
Canadian law protects people from discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation, but our public schools do not fulfill their ethical and legal obligations where sexual and gender minority youth are concerned. This article reports on a national survey study on homophobia and transphobia in Canadian high schools. Participants (n = 3,607) were questioned about school climate, harassment, school attachment, and institutional interventions. We f…
Recovery From Psychosis: A Phenomenological Inquiry
Welfare regimes and educational inequality: A cross‐national exploration
Research on welfare state regimes and research on educational policy share a common concern for the reduction of social inequality. On one hand, welfare state research is typically designed within a comparative approach where scholars investigate similarities and differences in social institutions across selected countries. On the other hand, the basic model of educational policy research is usually country specific and seldom identifies why and …
Bad’ Boys and ‘Sad’ Girls? Examining Internalizing and Externalizing Effects on Parasuicides Among Youth
Psychosis and transformation: A phenomenological inquiry
Gaps between beliefs, perceptions, and practices: The Every Teacher Project on LGBTQ-inclusive education in Canadian schools
The Every Teacher Project involved large-scale survey research conducted to identify the beliefs, perspectives, and practices of Kindergarten to Grade 12 educators in Canadian public schools regarding lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ)–inclusive education. Comparisons are made between LGBTQ and cisgender heterosexual participants, between participants teaching at different grade levels, and between participants in school distr…
Welfare regimes and educational inequality: A cross‐national exploration
Research on welfare state regimes and research on educational policy share a common concern for the reduction of social inequality. On one hand, welfare state research is typically designed within a comparative approach where scholars investigate similarities and differences in social institutions across selected countries. On the other hand, the basic model of educational policy research is usually country specific and seldom identifies why and …
A Queer Day in Canada: Examining Canadian High School Students' Experiences With School-Based Homophobia in Two Large-Scale Studies
The goal of the study is to examine how location (nationally, compared to Canadian regions) is related to indicators of a hostile school environment for sexual minority youth, particularly when physical abuse is used as the outcome variable. Data representing 5,766 Canadian students were analyzed using bivariate and multivariate techniques. Results from the multivariate analyses showed that non-physical abuse was the most significant predictor of…
We Are Not Aliens, We're People, and We Have Rights.” Canadian Human Rights Discourse and High School Climate for LGBTQ Students
Canadian law protects people from discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation, but our public schools do not fulfill their ethical and legal obligations where sexual and gender minority youth are concerned. This article reports on a national survey study on homophobia and transphobia in Canadian high schools. Participants (n = 3,607) were questioned about school climate, harassment, school attachment, and institutional interventions. We f…
Domestic violence in the United States and Sweden: A welfare state typology comparison within a power resources framework
Disparities in Academic Achievement: Assessing the Role of Habitus and Practice
Elementary Teachers' Experiences with LGBTQ-inclusive Education: Addressing Fears with Knowledge to Improve Confidence and Practices
This article presents the findings from a national study on the experiences of educators with gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) topics in elementary schools and recommendations for practice based in our experiences as classroom teachers and teacher educators. Using responses to open-ended questions that were part of a large-scale survey, we discuss the ways LGBTQ content is being included in PK-5 classrooms and the challenges…
Conceptualizing Gender: Lessons from the Canadian Trans Youth Health Survey
As discussions of gender identity become more widespread, the definitions of sex and gender both fluctuate and stabilize in new ways. In this article, we draw on qualitative and quantitative data from the first Canadian Trans Youth Health Survey (CTYHS) to analyze how young trans people articulate modern definitions of gender, gender identity, and sex. The CTYHS was an anonymous online survey that had 923 trans youth participants aged 14-25. It i…
Trends in suicidality among sexual minority and heterosexual students in a canadian population-based cohort study
These findings have important public health implications, especially since we see decreases in suicidal behaviour for heterosexual adolescents, but not in the same way for many sexual minority youth, despite advances in social acceptance of gay, lesbian, and bisexual issues in North America
Buried Above Ground: A University-Based Study of Risk/Protective Factors for Suicidality Among Sexual Minority Youth in Canada
This study examined differences in suicidal behavior between lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning (LGBTQ) and non-LGBTQ university students as well as investigated the importance of risk and protective factors in the prediction of suicidality between these two groups. A total of 1,205 university students participated in the survey. Findings show, compared to non-LGBTQ respondents, sexual minority youth are at a greater risk …
Bad’ Boys and ‘Sad’ Girls? Examining Internalizing and Externalizing Effects on Parasuicides Among Youth
Speaking About the Unspeakable: Exploring the Impact of Mother-Daughter Sexual Abuse
By embarking on multiple interviews with eight survivors (a total of 29 interviews), this article examines the impact of maternal sexual abuse on daughters. Although it is important to recognize the abuse that women lived through, it tells little about their struggles. Thus, as a way to honor the lives of the women interviewed, I have chosen to follow the model of Liz Kelly (1988), who focuses on the impact of sexual abuse in terms of coping, res…
Gendered Habitus and Gender Differences in Academic Achievement
Bourdieu's theory of cultural and social reproduction posits that students' habitus-learned behavioural and perceptual dispositions rooted in family upbringing-is a formative influence on how they react to their educational environments, affecting academic practices and academic achievement. Although originally conceived as a "class" variant construct, it has been argued subsequently that habitus is also conditioned by gender socialization, and s…
Mad, Bad, or Victim? Making Sense of Mother–Daughter Sexual Abuse
This article explores current rationalizations that classify sexually abusive mothers as mad, bad, or victim. Analyses of these paradigms are informed by survivors’ narratives— because, after all, survivors are the best experts on their lives. Specifically, qualitative data are analyzed from multiple semistructured interviews with women who were sexually abused by their mother or female caregiver. Working within a feminist framework (which critic…
More Than a Feeling? An Empirical Analysis of the Dual-Continua Model on a National Sample of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Identified Canadians
The goal of the study is to investigate whether positive mental health complements mental illness within a theoretically informed (the dual-continua model) and psychometrically tested (the Mental Health Continuum-Short Form) framework. National-level, population-based data from the 2012 Canadian Community Health Survey on Mental Health (CCHS-MH) was used, with comparisons between sexual minority and heterosexual adults. Results show that gay, les…
Domestic violence in the United States and Sweden: A welfare state typology comparison within a power resources framework
The short-term, medium-term, and long-term economic performance of immigrant women in Canada and the United States
Mad, Bad, or Victim? Making Sense of Mother–Daughter Sexual Abuse
This article explores current rationalizations that classify sexually abusive mothers as mad, bad, or victim. Analyses of these paradigms are informed by survivors’ narratives— because, after all, survivors are the best experts on their lives. Specifically, qualitative data are analyzed from multiple semistructured interviews with women who were sexually abused by their mother or female caregiver. Working within a feminist framework (which critic…
Speaking About the Unspeakable: Exploring the Impact of Mother-Daughter Sexual Abuse
By embarking on multiple interviews with eight survivors (a total of 29 interviews), this article examines the impact of maternal sexual abuse on daughters. Although it is important to recognize the abuse that women lived through, it tells little about their struggles. Thus, as a way to honor the lives of the women interviewed, I have chosen to follow the model of Liz Kelly (1988), who focuses on the impact of sexual abuse in terms of coping, res…
Psychosis and transformation: A phenomenological inquiry
Recovery From Psychosis: A Phenomenological Inquiry
Welfare regimes and educational inequality: A cross‐national exploration
Research on welfare state regimes and research on educational policy share a common concern for the reduction of social inequality. On one hand, welfare state research is typically designed within a comparative approach where scholars investigate similarities and differences in social institutions across selected countries. On the other hand, the basic model of educational policy research is usually country specific and seldom identifies why and …
Bad’ Boys and ‘Sad’ Girls? Examining Internalizing and Externalizing Effects on Parasuicides Among Youth
We Are Not Aliens, We're People, and We Have Rights.” Canadian Human Rights Discourse and High School Climate for LGBTQ Students
Canadian law protects people from discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation, but our public schools do not fulfill their ethical and legal obligations where sexual and gender minority youth are concerned. This article reports on a national survey study on homophobia and transphobia in Canadian high schools. Participants (n = 3,607) were questioned about school climate, harassment, school attachment, and institutional interventions. We f…
Disparities in Academic Achievement: Assessing the Role of Habitus and Practice
‘Give Me a Reason to Live!’ Examining Reasons for Living Across Levels of Suicidality
Buried Above Ground: A University-Based Study of Risk/Protective Factors for Suicidality Among Sexual Minority Youth in Canada
This study examined differences in suicidal behavior between lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning (LGBTQ) and non-LGBTQ university students as well as investigated the importance of risk and protective factors in the prediction of suicidality between these two groups. A total of 1,205 university students participated in the survey. Findings show, compared to non-LGBTQ respondents, sexual minority youth are at a greater risk …
Gendered Habitus and Gender Differences in Academic Achievement
Bourdieu's theory of cultural and social reproduction posits that students' habitus-learned behavioural and perceptual dispositions rooted in family upbringing-is a formative influence on how they react to their educational environments, affecting academic practices and academic achievement. Although originally conceived as a "class" variant construct, it has been argued subsequently that habitus is also conditioned by gender socialization, and s…
Perspectives on gender and sexual diversity (GSD)-inclusive education: Comparisons between gay/lesbian/bisexual and straight educators
This paper presents findings from a national study on the beliefs and practices of K-12 educators regarding lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) issues in schools. Over 3400 Canadian educators participated in the study, which took the form of a bilingual (English/French) online survey. Respondents answered questions about their values regarding human rights and LGBTQ-inclusive education, their practices in the classroom, experie…
Pride and Prejudice: Factors Affecting School Attachment Among Lesbian, Bisexual, and Heterosexual Girls
School attachment is often regarded as a key measure in gauging the integration and wellbeing of students. Previous research suggests that levels of school attachment are generally lower among sexual minority students, but most studies focus on between-gender comparisons and do not conduct within-gender analyses. Using data from the First National Climate Survey on Homophobia and Transphobia in Canadian schools, this study set out to empirically …
A Queer Day in Canada: Examining Canadian High School Students' Experiences With School-Based Homophobia in Two Large-Scale Studies
The goal of the study is to examine how location (nationally, compared to Canadian regions) is related to indicators of a hostile school environment for sexual minority youth, particularly when physical abuse is used as the outcome variable. Data representing 5,766 Canadian students were analyzed using bivariate and multivariate techniques. Results from the multivariate analyses showed that non-physical abuse was the most significant predictor of…
“You can't break…when you're already broken”: The importance of school climate to suicidality among LGBTQ youth
Suicide has been a longstanding problem among sexual and gender minority youth in Canada. The goal of the article is to examine the link between suicidality and school climate within a theoretically informed framework and a mixed methods approach. Qualitative and quantitative findings are presented using data from more than 3,700 secondary students from the National Climate Survey of Homophobia and Transphobia in Canadian Schools (Taylor & Peter,…
Trends in suicidality among sexual minority and heterosexual students in a canadian population-based cohort study
These findings have important public health implications, especially since we see decreases in suicidal behaviour for heterosexual adolescents, but not in the same way for many sexual minority youth, despite advances in social acceptance of gay, lesbian, and bisexual issues in North America
Gaps between beliefs, perceptions, and practices: The Every Teacher Project on LGBTQ-inclusive education in Canadian schools
The Every Teacher Project involved large-scale survey research conducted to identify the beliefs, perspectives, and practices of Kindergarten to Grade 12 educators in Canadian public schools regarding lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ)–inclusive education. Comparisons are made between LGBTQ and cisgender heterosexual participants, between participants teaching at different grade levels, and between participants in school distr…
Mental Health Disparities Among Canadian Transgender Youth
Mind the gap: Predicting the positive mental health of adult sexual minority Canadians
The goal of the study is to investigate possible predictors of positive mental health, and whether they differ across sexual identity adult groups. Using data from the 2012 Canadian Community Health Survey on Mental Health, multivariate analyses were conducted, including interaction terms, to assess the effects of sexual orientation on various mental illness, health-risk behaviors, and sociological indicators and their correlations with positive …
Evidence of changing patterns in mental health and depressive symptoms for sexual minority adolescents
Depression, sadness, low self-esteem, and self-harm affect a substantial number of young people in North America. However, the prevalence of these symptoms has been found to be consistently higher for sexual minority (i.e., lesbian, gay, bisexual) populations. In this study, we traced the trends and disparities in mental health, including self-harm, forgone mental health care, good feelings, feelings of sadness, and feeling good about oneself, wi…
A Call for “Trans-action”: The Role of Enacted Stigma in Mediating the Relationship between School Climate and School Attachment among Gender Minority Students
Several studies have highlighted the association between enacted stigma with various mental health and educational disparities among sexual minority students, but fewer have done so with an exclusive gender minority sample and even less have included school attachment as an outcome measure. The purpose of the current analyses is to test the main effects that an LGBTQ-inclusive school context as well as enacted stigma has on school attachment, and…
More Than a Feeling? An Empirical Analysis of the Dual-Continua Model on a National Sample of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Identified Canadians
The goal of the study is to investigate whether positive mental health complements mental illness within a theoretically informed (the dual-continua model) and psychometrically tested (the Mental Health Continuum-Short Form) framework. National-level, population-based data from the 2012 Canadian Community Health Survey on Mental Health (CCHS-MH) was used, with comparisons between sexual minority and heterosexual adults. Results show that gay, les…
Elementary Teachers' Experiences with LGBTQ-inclusive Education: Addressing Fears with Knowledge to Improve Confidence and Practices
This article presents the findings from a national study on the experiences of educators with gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) topics in elementary schools and recommendations for practice based in our experiences as classroom teachers and teacher educators. Using responses to open-ended questions that were part of a large-scale survey, we discuss the ways LGBTQ content is being included in PK-5 classrooms and the challenges…
Psychology (26 works) · Social Psychology (18 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (17 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Medicine (14 works) · Sexual minority (13 works) · Sexual orientation (13 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Clinical Psychology (11 works) · Psychiatry (11 works)