Angelo Brandelli Costa
Biographic Data
| ID | 224863 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Angelo Brandelli Costa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Angelo Brandelli |
| FAMILY NAME | Costa |
| SIGNATURE | COSTA A B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0742-8152 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 78 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 98 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 78 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
How Does the Minority Stress Model Communicate with Brazilian Sexual Minority Women’s Mental Health
Objectives To assess the association of the Minority Stress Model to Brazilian sexual minority women’s mental health, by evaluating whether resilience, internalized homonegativity, anticipation of rejection and experiences of discrimination were associated with depressive symptomatology.Methods An instrument based on the TransPulse Project was developed and culturally adapted for the Brazilian context. Data were collected through a web-based resp…
Variations in prejudice against sexual and gender diversity at a public university in Southern Brazil over a 7-year interval
School Climate, Absenteeism and School Transfer Due to Transphobic Bullying in Transgender And Non‐Binary Youth
INTRODUCTION: This study investigates the critical role of school climate in relation to absenteeism and school transfer due to transphobic bullying among transgender and gender non-binary youth in Brazil, a context where research on this population is scarce. School climate, characterized by feelings of belonging, safety, and positive relationships, has been shown to significantly impact academic outcomes and overall well-being. Understanding th…
Digital Embodiment and Gender Performance in Online Role-Playing Games: A Scoping Review of Coping and Identity Among Transgender and Gender-Diverse Players
This study aimed to explore how online role-playing games, through avatars, may influence the process of gender expression and the mental health among transgender and gender diverse (TGD) individuals. These platforms demonstrate potential to be utilized as coping tools to improve mental health and therapeutic outcomes. A scoping review was conducted, examining 6,076 publications. After duplicate removal and eligibility screening focused on online…
Historical Overview and Pathologization of Sexual and Gender Diversity in Brazilian Psychological Assessment
This article analyzes personality assessment instruments used in Brazilian psychology in the early 2000s. It seeks to understand how tests that may contain discriminatory biases related to sexual and gender diversity coexisted with guidelines that defend human rights and the elimination of prejudice. The historical evolution of gender and sexuality assessment in psychology is explored, from the 18th-century concept of “single sex” to the developm…
Representatividade Represada: Gênero E Raça Nas Notícias Institucionais De Uma Câmara Municipal
Este artigo visa categorizar como os tópicos de gênero e raça foram reportados pela Sala de Imprensa da Câmara Municipal de Porto Alegre/RS entre 2021 e 2022. Realizou-se uma análise temática com notícias proxy do debate institucional do Legislativo municipal. Quanto ao gênero surgiram os dois temas de maior destaque foram: Políticas públicas e direitos das mulheres; e Representatividade política, social e cultural de mulheres. Em raça, os princi…
Further testing a dual process social psychological model of corrupt intention and attitudes toward corrupt people
What Is Citizenship and How Is It Practiced: The Views from Students in Porto Alegre
Stigma in People Living with HIV/Aids in Brazil: Implications for Treatment Adherence
The insurgency of women’s groups on the internet in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic in Brazil
Predictors of depression, anxiety, and overall psychological distress in people living with HIV/Aids: Analyses from the Stigma Index Brazil 2.0
Internalized stigma has been strongly linked to mental health issues in people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA), particularly depression. Nonetheless, the overlap between depressive symptoms and other psychopathologies is well-known among specialists. This study aimed to examine the factors predicting depressive and anxiety symptoms in PLHA. This is a community-based study (Stigma Index Brazil 2.0) that involved 1,784 PLHA recruited from seven Brazili…
Evidências de validade da escala de antecipação do estigma relacionado ao HIV
O estigma relacionado ao HIV é um dos principais fatores associados a desfechos negativos entre pessoas que vivem com HIV, como evitação de testagem e baixa adesão ao tratamento. O objetivo deste estudo é apresentar as evidências de validade da Escala de Antecipação do Estigma Relacionado ao HIV (EAER-HIV-7) no contexto brasileiro. Participaram do estudo 428 homens, em sua maioria brancos e heterossexuais. Os participantes responderam a um protoc…
Pesquisa-intervenção para equidade de gênero no eixo saúde-educação
Pesquisas voltadas ao público jovem LGBTQIA+ nos serviços públicos são relevantes no contexto de neoconservadorismo brasileiro, em que ocorre a exclusão e violência a corpos fora da cisheteronormatividade. A pesquisa Pós-Doutoral nomeada como “Promoção à Equidade de Gênero: estratégias de educação teórico-prática de gestores e profissionais da educação no ensino médio” é um projeto do Grupo de Pesquisa Preconceito, Vulnerabilidade e Processos Psi…
Grupo com jovens LGBTQIAP: Relato de experiência em um Centro de Atenção Psicossocial
O artigo configura-se como relato de experiência sobre o Grupo de Atenção Psicossocial LGBTQIAP+ voltado a adolescentes e jovens de um Centro de Atenção Psicossocial. A iniciativa justifica-se pelas diversas demandas de atenção psicossocial, como a falta de acesso à saúde, preconceito intrafamiliar e violências no âmbito escolar. Além da escuta qualificada, o grupo participa de manifestações LGBTQIA+, espaços de lazer e cultura, fomentando o prot…
Estigma Contra Pessoas Vivendo Com Hiv/Aids: Análise qualitativa do stigma index brasil
Stigma negatively impacts the quality of life of people living with HIV/AIDS, but there are few national studies dedicated to understanding the subjective dimension of this experience. Based on an unfolding of the Stigma Index 2.0 in Brazil, we aimed to qualitatively analyze the experiences of stigma narrated from the perspective of people living with HIV/AIDS. Of the 618 respondents from seven Brazilian capitals, 538 described in detail situatio…
Application of the transgender male voice questionnaire in a Brazilian population sample
Objectives The aim of this study was to adapt and apply the Portuguese version of the Transgender Man Voice Questionnaire in a sample of Brazilian transgender men and to investigate the relationship between voice satisfaction and hormone therapy duration. In addition, we suggest reducing and reformulating the questionnaire for screening. Methods We conducted a cross-sectional study of 31 transgender men aged 18–50 years undergoing hormone therapy…
The impact of conspiracy theories and vaccine knowledge on vaccination intention: A longitudinal study
In this study, we analyzed associations between vaccination knowledge, vaccination intention, political ideology, and belief in conspiracy theories before and during the 2020 Sars-Cov-2 pandemic in the Brazilian population. It was conducted a longitudinal study into three data collections. Participants responded to the Flexible Inventory of Conspiracy Suspicions (FICS), questionnaires measuring their knowledge, and opinion about vaccines, and soc…
Aquele que não pode ser nomeado: Ideologia e ausência sobre aborto nos saberes psicológicos
O controle reprodutivo é uma das principais vias de manutenção do capitalismo e do patriarcado. A criminalização do aborto torna este evento reprodutivo, comum na vida de mulheres, a quarta causa de morte “materna” do Brasil. Enquanto área que atua diante do sofrimento psíquico, inclusive no âmbito do acesso ao aborto legal via SUS, a psicologia não deveria estar alheia a pauta. Este artigo traz uma pesquisa quantitativa com 293 psicólogas do Rio…
Prejudice against gender and sexual diversity among soldiers of the Brazilian army
Prejudice against Gender and Sexual Diversity (GenSex prejudice) is a significant issue of scientific study. Negative attitudes towards lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender and gender nonconforming people are prevalent in many countries. Gender, age, education, income, religion, and military enrolment are associated with higher prejudice levels. The present study measured GenSex prejudice in an all-male military sample of Brazilian soldiers. Pa…
Towards a decolonial developmental science: Adolescent development in the Majority World taking center stage
While aspiring to be a diverse and global science, developmental science continues to be dominated by EuroAmerican epistemologies, researchers, and communities in its published scholarship. Adolescents in communities across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America comprise 85% of the world's adolescent population, and yet their experiences and perspectives are marginalized in our science. Adolescents in the Majority World live in highly d…
Homens em situação de rua: Entre a Marquise E a Emergência De Um Hospital De Trauma
A pesquisa etnográfica possibilitou perceber o hospital de trauma como parte das territorialidades que compõem o cotidiano de homens em situação de rua. Acompanhar os fluxos de atenção nas práticas de profissionais da saúde e da segurança pública aos homens feridos por conflitos violentos revelou a indissociabilidade entre o dentro e fora da instituição, os itinerários de exclusão e acolhimento. A perspectiva epistemológica adotada é sobretudo pó…
Violência contra as mulheres na pandemia de Covid-19: Uma Revisão Sistemática
Objetivo: Identificar a prevalência e os fatores associados à violência contra mulheres durante a pandemia de Covid-19 no mundo. Método: O levantamento foi realizado em outubro de 2021, nos bancos de dados Embase, Scopus e Web of Science, publicados em 2020 e 2021, apenas no idioma inglês. Foram incluídos estudos empíricos, com população feminina, no período da Covid-19, e foram excluídos artigos que incluíam homens ou crianças em sua amostra. Pa…
Transgender parenthood, participation in children's lives, and association with discrimination experiences: An exploratory study
A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being
The relation between religiosity and well-being is one of the most researched topics in the psychology of religion, yet the directionality and robustness of the effect remains debated. Here, we adopted a many-analysts approach to assess the robustness of this relation based on a new cross-cultural dataset (N=10,535 participants from 24 countries). We recruited 120 analysis teams to investigate (1) whether religious people self-report higher well-…
Factors Associated with Suicidal Ideation and Suicide Attempt in Brazilian Transgender Youth
The rates of suicidal ideation and suicide attempts among transgender youths are high. However, in Brazil, there are no studies about these outcomes in this population. The present study aims to investigate the prevalence of suicidal ideation and suicide attempts in Brazilian transgender youths (binary and non-binary), in association with predictor variables, following the Minority Stress Theory. The predictor variables analyzed were depressive s…
Homofobia e preconceito contra diversidade sexual: Debate Conceitual
O termo homofobia tem sido amplamente utilizado para a conceitualização do preconceito e discriminação contra indivíduos que apresentem orientação sexual diferente da heterossexual.Apesar do seu uso corrente no Brasil, são quase ignoradas a extensa discussão e as controvérsias teóricas em torno do termo desde que foi cunhado na década de 1970 nos Estados Unidos.Esse estudo discutirá o surgimento do conceito homofobia, seus empregos, limites, poss…
Prejudice Toward Gender and Sexual Diversity in a Brazilian Public University: Prevalence, Awareness, and the Effects of Education
Effectiveness of a multidimensional web-based intervention program to change Brazilian health practitioners' attitudes toward the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender population
The objective of this study was to assess the effectiveness of a multidimensional (educational, affective and behavioural) web-based intervention to change healthcare practitioners' attitudes toward lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender population. It aimed to measure gender and sexual (GenSex) prejudice pre- and post-intervention in relation to sociodemographic characteristics. A total of 307 health practitioners from southern Brazil enrolled a…
Population-Based HIV Prevalence and Associated Factors in Male-to-Female Transsexuals from Southern Brazil
Does the minority stress model generalize to a non-U.S. sample? An examination of minority stress and resilience on depressive symptomatology among sexual minority men in two urban areas of Brazil
The aim of the study was to evaluate the generalizability of the minority stress model on predicting depressive symptomatology among sexual minority men living outside of the United States. In addition, the role of resilience and its relationship between individual minority stressors and depressive symptomatology is examined. The study utilized online purposive sampling and focused on sexual minority men living in Brazil; participants’ (N 388) ag…
Validation Study of the Revised Version of the Scale of Prejudice Against Sexual and Gender Diversity in Brazil
In Brazil, there is a deficit of culturally adapted tools to assess prejudice against sexual and gender diversity with empirically demonstrable validity and reliability. Prejudice against non-heterosexual orientations is a strong problem within Brazilian culture and is particularly related to nonnormative expressions of gender. To address these issues, a scale was created. The objective of this article is to validate the revised version of this i…
O casamento "homoafetivo" e a política da sexualidade: Implicações Do Afeto Como Justificativa Das Uniões De Pessoas Do Mesmo Sexo
No Brasil, as justificativas jurídicas para a realização de uniões entre pessoas do mesmo sexo estão assentadas no aspecto afetivo das relações com o uso do termo "homoafetividade". O objetivo deste estudo é questionar essas justificativas, apontando para as suas repercussões políticas e subjetivas. Os argumentos foram examinados a partir de uma análise de discurso foucaultiana e confrontados com o debate sobre o direto democrático à sexualidade …
A dual process social psychological model of corrupt intention and attitudes toward corrupt people
Preliminary studies indicate that ideologies and worldviews are key in understanding the motivation behind corruption. Yet, there is no model seeking to explain corrupt intention that incorporates ideology and worldviews as predictors. Our objective was to propose a model integrating ideological factors (social dominance orientation [SDO] and right-wing authoritarianism [RWA]) and their underlying worldviews (competitive worldview beliefs [CWB] a…
Mediational effects of right-wing authoritarianism factors in the path religiosity - prejudice towards sexual and gender diversity
Previous studies have found that Right-Wing Authoritarianism (RWA) factors partially mediate the relationship between religiosity and attitudes towards homosexuals. Most of these studies have been conducted in the USA, which has distinct characteristics from countries such as Brazil, which is collectivistic and mostly composed of Catholics. Therefore, the objective of this study was to investigate differential mediator effects of RWA factors in t…
Prejudice Against Gender and Sexual Diversity in Brazilian Public High Schools
Quem está no comando? Mulher de bandido e os paradoxos da submissão
Este estudo teve por objetivo discutir qual o modelo de família que é produzido nos discursos e práticas de mulheres que têm relações afetivas ou sexuais com homens que estão em situação de prisão, a partir de uma análise do feminismo interseccional e do estudo do biopoder. Por meio de observações participantes com mulheres que visitam seus familiares, foi possível identificar que o modelo de família produzido ainda é sustentado pelo modelo hegem…
Towards a decolonial developmental science: Adolescent development in the Majority World taking center stage
While aspiring to be a diverse and global science, developmental science continues to be dominated by EuroAmerican epistemologies, researchers, and communities in its published scholarship. Adolescents in communities across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America comprise 85% of the world's adolescent population, and yet their experiences and perspectives are marginalized in our science. Adolescents in the Majority World live in highly d…
Protocolo para Avaliar o Estresse de Minoria em Lésbicas, Gays e Bissexuais
O modelo do Estresse de Minoria (EM) propõe a existência de estressores específicos que levam pessoas lésbicas, gays e bissexuais (LGB) à posição de maior vulnerabilidade social. O EM é composto por homonegatividade internalizada, a ocultação da sexualidade e as experiências de estigma. Embora o modelo tenha recebido suporte empírico, não há instrumentos adaptados para sua avaliação no contexto brasileiro. Portanto, este estudo objetiva a adaptaç…
Stressful events, life satisfaction, and positive and negative affect in youth at risk
Short version of the right-wing authoritarianism scale for the Brazilian context
Right-Wing Authoritarianism (RWA) is a central predictor of distinct phenomena such as prejudice, voting behavior, corruption, conspiratory beliefs and dietary habits. Given its theoretical and practical relevance, researchers have incorporated RWA measures in large-scale surveys but their length can be an impediment. Although short RWA scales exist, none consider the cultural variability of the RWA structure in non-WEIRD contexts such as Brazil.…
Performativity and representativeness of trans Brazilian people on YouTube: Gender affirmation as a spectacle
From the analysis of videos, we sought to understand the specificities of the gender affirmation of trans people born and/or residing in Brazil who create and produce content on YouTube with the objective of sharing snapshots of their lives, mainly related to their gender identity(ies). This is qualitative research in which twenty-nine videos by eight different people were collected and analyzed through the method of netnography and later discuss…
Depression, Self-Esteem, and Resilience and its Relationship with Psychological Features of Sexuality among Transgender Men and Women from Brazil
Anticipated HIV stigma and delays in HIV testing among Brazilian heterosexual male soldiers
Anticipated HIV stigma refers to expectations held by individuals regarding social rejection, prejudice, and discrimination if they were ever to be infected by HIV. Much of the prior work on the impact of this anticipated stigma on HIV testing focus on men who have sex with men and transgender women populations, suggesting that higher levels of anticipated stigma contributes to delays in HIV testing. The same association is insufficiently explore…
Crenças e Atitudes Corretivas de Profissionais de Psicologia sobre a Homossexualidade
Muitos profissionais da Psicologia no Brasil ainda consideram a homossexualidade um transtorno mental ou um desvio daquilo que se consideraria, apesar da ausência de evidências empíricas e dos aspectos bioéticos implicados nestes julgamentos. De acordo com a literatura, esses profissionais frequentemente praticam intervenções que visam mudar ou reparar a homossexualidade. Este estudo buscou avaliar as atitudes corretivas (AC) dos profissionais da…
Attitudes Among Brazilian University Undergraduates Regarding Cinema with Contents on Sexual Diversity
In this experience repport we describe an event using cinema as a way to promote affirmative actions regarding sexual diversity among psychology undergraduates. As undergraduate students, we identify the need of a debate that could overcome the boundaries of the traditional notions of gender, sexuality and desire, in order to rethink what is considered pathological/deviant. Our experience showed that presenting cinema dealing with sexual diversit…
Psicologia e publicidade: Velhos E Novos Encontros
A escassez de discussão e de proposição de novas perspectivas para a interface psicologia/publicidade foi o mote para o trabalho teórico, prático e ético junto ao que chamamos de operadores do consumo, sistematizado em um projeto acadêmico. Neste escrito, buscamos discutir, com base na psicologia social contemporânea, questões pertinentes a essa interface levantadas ao longo do projeto. Questionamos o estatuto da comunicação na publicidade e a su…
Estudo de validade do DFH como medida de desenvolvimento cognitivo infantil
O Teste do Desenho da Figura Humana (DFH) é amplamente utilizado como uma técnica de avaliação do desenvolvimento cognitivo, porém, o reconhecimento da validade deste instrumento ainda hoje não está completo. No Brasil, o Sistema Wechsler de avaliação cognitiva do DFH já foi aprovado pelo Conselho Federal de Psicologia. No entanto, considerando a necessidade de periodicamente se reavaliar o instrumento, o objetivo deste estudo foi avaliar a valid…
Attitudes Among Brazilian University Undergraduates Regarding Cinema with Contents on Sexual Diversity
In this experience repport we describe an event using cinema as a way to promote affirmative actions regarding sexual diversity among psychology undergraduates. As undergraduate students, we identify the need of a debate that could overcome the boundaries of the traditional notions of gender, sexuality and desire, in order to rethink what is considered pathological/deviant. Our experience showed that presenting cinema dealing with sexual diversit…
Psicologia e publicidade: Velhos E Novos Encontros
A escassez de discussão e de proposição de novas perspectivas para a interface psicologia/publicidade foi o mote para o trabalho teórico, prático e ético junto ao que chamamos de operadores do consumo, sistematizado em um projeto acadêmico. Neste escrito, buscamos discutir, com base na psicologia social contemporânea, questões pertinentes a essa interface levantadas ao longo do projeto. Questionamos o estatuto da comunicação na publicidade e a su…
A diversidade sexual no ensino de Psicologia. O cinema como ferramenta de intervenção e pesquisa: El cine como herramienta de intervención e investigación
O contexto da formação em psicologia é tradicionalmente marcado pela patologização das performances de gênero e das sexualidades que fogem à matriz heteronormativa. A ausência da discussão sobre a diversidade sexual na formação em psicologia da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul motivou o projeto de pesquisa-intervenção aqui apresentado. O objetivo foi estimular o debate sobre a diversidade sexual utilizando o cinema como disparador de dis…
Diversidade sexual e avaliação psicológica: Os Direitos Humanos Em Questão
Este estudo visa contribuir com o debate contemporâneo da relação entre Psicologia, direitos humanos e diversidade sexual. Na primeira parte, será exposto o debate acerca da relação entre direitos humanos e avaliação psicológica, suas potencialidades e limitações. Em seguida, serão discutidas as definições de direitos humanos e sua relação com a diversidade sexual. Na terceira parte, será apresentado o tratamento histórico que a Psicologia, espec…
Does the minority stress model generalize to a non-U.S. sample? An examination of minority stress and resilience on depressive symptomatology among sexual minority men in two urban areas of Brazil
The aim of the study was to evaluate the generalizability of the minority stress model on predicting depressive symptomatology among sexual minority men living outside of the United States. In addition, the role of resilience and its relationship between individual minority stressors and depressive symptomatology is examined. The study utilized online purposive sampling and focused on sexual minority men living in Brazil; participants’ (N 388) ag…
Discordant Transsexualism in Male Monozygotic Twins: Neuroanatomical and Psychological Differences
Avaliação do preconceito contra diversidade sexual e de gênero: Construção de um instrumento
O Brasil carece de ferramentas para avaliar o preconceito contra a diversidade sexual e de gênero, sendo necessários instrumentos com boas evidências de validade e confiabilidade e, principalmente, adaptados para o contexto brasileiro. Uma vez que o preconceito está fortemente associado à cultura e que no Brasil o preconceito contra orientações não heterossexuais está especialmente relacionado com expressões de gênero discordantes das hegemônicas…
Construção de uma escala para avaliar a qualidade metodológica de revisões sistemáticas
O objetivo deste estudo foi descrever o processo de construção e de validação de uma metodologia para avaliação da qualidade de escalas de revisões sistemáticas. A partir da ampliação do escopo e de acréscimos de novos itens ao instrumento Assessment of Multiple Systematic Reviews (AMSTAR), buscaram-se evidências de validade e confiabilidade da nova metodologia. Em um primeiro momento, a escala original foi traduzida, adaptada, ampliada e avaliad…
Prejudice Toward Gender and Sexual Diversity in a Brazilian Public University: Prevalence, Awareness, and the Effects of Education
Population-Based HIV Prevalence and Associated Factors in Male-to-Female Transsexuals from Southern Brazil
Homofobia e preconceito contra diversidade sexual: Debate Conceitual
O termo homofobia tem sido amplamente utilizado para a conceitualização do preconceito e discriminação contra indivíduos que apresentem orientação sexual diferente da heterossexual.Apesar do seu uso corrente no Brasil, são quase ignoradas a extensa discussão e as controvérsias teóricas em torno do termo desde que foi cunhado na década de 1970 nos Estados Unidos.Esse estudo discutirá o surgimento do conceito homofobia, seus empregos, limites, poss…
O casamento "homoafetivo" e a política da sexualidade: Implicações Do Afeto Como Justificativa Das Uniões De Pessoas Do Mesmo Sexo
No Brasil, as justificativas jurídicas para a realização de uniões entre pessoas do mesmo sexo estão assentadas no aspecto afetivo das relações com o uso do termo "homoafetividade". O objetivo deste estudo é questionar essas justificativas, apontando para as suas repercussões políticas e subjetivas. Os argumentos foram examinados a partir de uma análise de discurso foucaultiana e confrontados com o debate sobre o direto democrático à sexualidade …
Childhood Maltreatment Linked with a Deterioration of Psychosocial Outcomes in Adult Life for Southern Brazilian Transgender Women
Healthcare Needs of and Access Barriers for Brazilian Transgender and Gender Diverse People
Follow-up of psychological outcomes of interventions in patients diagnosed with disorders of sexual development: A systematic review
The objective of this study was to perform a systematic review of articles that followed up the psychological outcomes of interventions in patients with disorders of sexual development. The analysis focused on the methodological quality of the studies and the assumptions on the evaluation of the intervention outcomes. The review signaled the need for better consideration about the complexity of intersexuality and for a shift from the anatomical/f…
Effectiveness of a multidimensional web-based intervention program to change Brazilian health practitioners' attitudes toward the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender population
The objective of this study was to assess the effectiveness of a multidimensional (educational, affective and behavioural) web-based intervention to change healthcare practitioners' attitudes toward lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender population. It aimed to measure gender and sexual (GenSex) prejudice pre- and post-intervention in relation to sociodemographic characteristics. A total of 307 health practitioners from southern Brazil enrolled a…
Validation Study of the Revised Version of the Scale of Prejudice Against Sexual and Gender Diversity in Brazil
In Brazil, there is a deficit of culturally adapted tools to assess prejudice against sexual and gender diversity with empirically demonstrable validity and reliability. Prejudice against non-heterosexual orientations is a strong problem within Brazilian culture and is particularly related to nonnormative expressions of gender. To address these issues, a scale was created. The objective of this article is to validate the revised version of this i…
Birth Order and Androphilic Male-to-Female Transsexualism in Brazil
Previous research has indicated that biological older brothers increase the odds of androphilia in males. This finding has been termed the fraternal birth order effect . The maternal immune hypothesis suggests that this effect reflects the progressive immunization of some mothers to male-specific antigens involved in fetal male brain masculinization. Exposure to these antigens, as a result of carrying earlier-born sons, is hypothesized to produce…
Psychological Interventions for Transgender Persons: A Scoping Review
This study aimed to investigate psychological interventions for transgender persons, aiming to highlight their goals, theoretical background and methods. A scoping review was conducted in four databases, ranging from 1980 to 2015. Selection led to a final sample of 36 articles. The goals of psychological interventions are unclearly described in many studies. Different background theories were identified and in some studies, these were not clearly…
HIV-Related Healthcare Needs and Access Barriers for Brazilian Transgender and Gender Diverse People
HIV-related care for transgender people: A systematic review of studies from around the world
Mediational effects of right-wing authoritarianism factors in the path religiosity - prejudice towards sexual and gender diversity
Previous studies have found that Right-Wing Authoritarianism (RWA) factors partially mediate the relationship between religiosity and attitudes towards homosexuals. Most of these studies have been conducted in the USA, which has distinct characteristics from countries such as Brazil, which is collectivistic and mostly composed of Catholics. Therefore, the objective of this study was to investigate differential mediator effects of RWA factors in t…
Prejudice Against Gender and Sexual Diversity in Brazilian Public High Schools
Stressful events, life satisfaction, and positive and negative affect in youth at risk
Psychology (48 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (37 works) · Social Psychology (29 works) · Medicine (24 works) · Sociology (23 works) · Political science (19 works) · Transgender (19 works) · Psychiatry (16 works) · Clinical Psychology (15 works) · Humanities (15 works)