Alexa Martin-Storey
Biographic Data
| ID | 312060 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexa Martin-Storey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexa |
| FAMILY NAME | Martin-Storey |
| SIGNATURE | MARTIN-STOREY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université de Sherbrooke |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0026-1545 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 90 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Disability-based peer victimization and mental health disorders in a population-based study of youth.
Risk of Dating Violence Among Sexually Minoritized Relative to Heterosexual Young People in School- and Community-Based Samples
Dating violence (DV) among adolescents and young adults is a prevalent public health concern. Research to date has largely focused on heterosexual young people, resulting in the marginalization of the experiences of sexually minoritized young people. We thus sought to assess sexually minoritized young people’s risk of experiencing past-year physical, sexual, and psychological DV victimization, both as a group and relative to their heterosexual pe…
The Association Between Internalized Sexualization and Peer Victimization
Adolescent girls receive mixed messages about the value of being sexually attractive to men while at the same time receiving warnings about the risks of being perceived as overly sexual. How girls internalize messages about sexuality and gender may be linked with variations in their social relationships, including their experiences of peer victimization. We propose that internalized sexualization can have different meanings (and hence be linked w…
Longitudinal changes in sexual identity during adolescence and their associations with sexual well‐being
Exploring sexuality and identity are important and concurrent adolescent developmental tasks. Sexual identity fluidity (e.g., change over time in sexual identity) at this stage is increasingly documented, yet, knowledge concerning broad tendencies in sexual identity development in contemporary youth and how these relate to sexual well-being is lacking. This study identified and characterized longitudinal classes of sexual identity change across t…
Is sexism associated with the use of relational aggression by young adults? The moderating effect of gender
Relational aggression refers to behaviors intended to harm a target’s social relationships either in response to a threat (reactive form) or with an ulterior motive (proactive form). The use of relational aggression is associated with internalizing symptoms such as depression, anxiety, and somatic complaints, as well as externalizing problems including conduct disorder symptoms, attention problems and oppositional defiant disorder symptoms (Murra…
Childhood conduct problems and adolescent sexual harassment victimization
Sexual harassment victimization is prospectively associated with poorer mental health, accounting for other forms of victimization. To better understand the link between childhood conduct problems and vulnerability for sexual harassment, the three objectives of this study were to (1) examine the links between childhood conduct problems and sexual harassment victimization during early adulthood; (2) identify the mediating role of common developmen…
Minority Stress, Resilience, and Trouble Falling Asleep Among Gender and Sexual Minority Adolescents
INTRODUCTION: Gender and sexual minority adolescents experience greater stress and report worse sleep outcomes compared to their cisgender and/or heterosexual peers. Understanding how minority stress and resilience factors are linked to sleep health provides levers for improving sleep within these populations. METHODS: = 15.6 years; 65% white), we compared gender/sex and sexuality subgroups' trouble falling asleep and conducted linear regressions…
Sleep and Internalizing Problems as Mediators of Medical Service Usage Among Youth with and without Conduct Problems
Linking sexual violence experiences to gender identities, gender expression, and sexual identities
Sexual Minority Identity and Risky Alcohol Use
How privilege affects reactions to men's femininity
This research aimed to explore social responses to men’s femininity, with particular attention paid to the impact of privilege as detailed in the framework of hybrid masculinities. Generally, men’s femininity is met with condemnation, but those with more privilege may have more leeway than those with less. Additionally, cultural attitudes may be evolving to be less homonegative, which may alter the reception of queer men’s femininity. From interv…
Conduct problems and sexting
Associations between externalizing behavior problems and risky sexual behaviors in adolescence
INTRODUCTION: Risky sexual behaviors in adolescence are associated with negative health and psychological functioning outcomes. Although the association between behavior problems and risky sexual behaviors is well established, addressing these problems requires understanding the mechanisms that help explain this association. Adolescent attachment, while related to risky sexual behavior, has not been extensively explored as an outcome of childhood…
When we go to ask for help, they don't understand how to help us
Gender and, to a lesser extent, sexual identity, are relevant factors in understanding variance in the prevalence, consequences, and treatment of conduct problems. The current study uses thematic analysis to explore how youth with early‐onset conduct problems and extensive histories of school‐based service use perceive gender and sexuality as impacting their service use experiences. Qualitative analysis of interviews with 41 youth (17–21 years ol…
Relationship satisfaction among plurisexual young adults
Understanding the link between intimate partner violence and relationship satisfaction is important because of prospective links between this type of satisfaction and mental and physical health. The need to better understand experiences of intimate violence among plurisexual people (those who experience sexual and/or romantic attraction to more than one gender) is highlighted by the fact that they disproportionately experience higher levels of in…
Perceptions of Service Efficacy Among Young Adults with Childhood Histories of Conduct Problems
Services developed to address conduct problems in school contexts show limited efficacy. The current study examined how young adults with childhood histories of conduct problems retrospectively understood service efficacy, inefficacy, and what suggestions they had for service improvement. Participants were 41 young adults from Québec (17-21 years old; 53.7% women; 78% white; 77% below the low-income cut-off for single-person households) who had r…
Sexual Minority Status and Academic Achievement During the Transition to Adolescence Among Youth With Childhood Conduct Problems
Youth with conduct problems have poorer academic outcomes than their typically developing peers. The objective of the current study was to examine how sexual minority status was associated with trajectories of teacher-rated mathematics and language arts (i.e., reading and writing) achievement in seven consecutive years across the transition to adolescence among youth with childhood histories of conduct problems ( N = 383). Sexual minority status …
Trajectories of medical service use among girls and boys with and without early-onset conduct problems
Clinicians should be aware that childhood CP already predicts increased medical service use in elementary school. Issues specific to different contexts in which injuries might occur and sex differences are discussed
Correlates of sexual harassment victimization among adolescents
Sexual harassment (SH) is an important public health problem among adolescents and is associated with negative outcomes. Using a theory‐based, developmentally‐informed approach, this scoping review focuses on SH victimization among adolescents (number of studies included = 20) and aims to (1) examine how the extant literature on correlates of SH defined and measured SH, and (2) identify correlates associated with SH victimization among adolescent…
The Slut‐Shaming Instrument
Despite social awareness of the problem of slut-shaming for adolescent girls, no existing measure captures this construct. Using data from a sample of 202 girls from Québec, Canada (ages 14-17; 68% White), preliminary validation is provided for the Slut-Shaming Instrument, a seven-item measure of negative peer experiences related to being perceived as too sexually active, sexualized, or flirtatious. The measure showed strong psychometric properti…
Dating Violence Trajectories in Adolescence
The Development and Preliminary Validation of a Measure of Victimization within the Friendships of Emerging Adults
For emerging adults, high-quality friendships can be an important source of companionship and support. The most commonly studied negative interaction between friends is conflict, yet work with youth suggests more serious victimization also occurs in friendship. In the current study, we developed and obtained preliminary psychometric evidence for the Friendship Victimization Scale, a measure that assesses physical, sexual, relational, and verbal f…
How sexual and gender minority students discuss sexuality and gender in describing their experiences of sexual violence
Real and assumed sexual minority status
Sexual minority status persists in being linked to poorer adolescent mental health. Using a longitudinal sample (N = 845), we examined how youth's own same-gender attraction and their perceptions of peers' beliefs about their same-gender attraction (i.e., assumed attraction) were associated with trajectories of depressive symptoms from grade eight (when students are typically 13-14 years old) to grade 10. Reporting either same-gender attraction, …
Family relationship quality during the Covid‐19 pandemic
INTRODUCTION: Adolescents typically spend decreasing amounts of time with family members, but the COVID-19 pandemic changed this pattern for many youth. The objective of the current study was to better understand adolescents' perceived change in family relationship quality, and how these perceptions were related to psychosocial functioning during the COVID-19 pandemic, accounting for more traditional measures of family relationship quality. Under…
Harassment Due to Gender Nonconformity Mediates the Association Between Sexual Minority Identity and Depressive Symptoms
The visibility of a stigmatized identity is central in determining how individuals experience that identity. Sexual minority status (e.g., identifying as gay, lesbian, or bisexual) has traditionally been identified as a concealable stigma, compared with race/ethnicity or physical disability status. This conceptualization fails to recognize, however, the strong link between sexual minority status and a visible stigma: gender nonconformity. Gender …
A Research Note on Time With Children in Different- and Same-Sex Two-Parent Families
Public debate on same-sex marriage often focuses on the disadvantages that children raised by same-sex couples may face. On one hand, little evidence suggests any difference in the outcomes of children raised by same-sex parents and different-sex parents. On the other hand, most studies are limited by problems of sample selection and size, and few directly measure the parenting practices thought to influence child development. This research note …
Externalizing Behaviors Exacerbate the Link between Discrimination and Adolescent Health Risk Behaviors
Prevalence of Dating Violence Among Sexual Minority Youth
Continuity and Pathways from Aggression in Childhood to Family Violence in Adulthood
The Development and Preliminary Validation of a Measure of Victimization within the Friendships of Emerging Adults
For emerging adults, high-quality friendships can be an important source of companionship and support. The most commonly studied negative interaction between friends is conflict, yet work with youth suggests more serious victimization also occurs in friendship. In the current study, we developed and obtained preliminary psychometric evidence for the Friendship Victimization Scale, a measure that assesses physical, sexual, relational, and verbal f…
Longitudinal and Concurrent Pathways to Alcoholism
Neighborhood‐level and individual‐level variables from childhood and adulthood were examined in relation to alcoholism in adulthood. In 1976–1978, children from working‐class neighborhood schools in Montreal, Canada participated in a study examining the outcomes of childhood behaviors. At this time, peer nominations of childhood aggression were collected. In 1999–2003, these participants were contacted during mid‐adulthood (N = 676) and asked to …
Self‐Continuity Moderates the Association Between Peer Victimization and Depressed Affect
Two longitudinal studies conducted with early adolescents (ages 10-13) examined the hypothesis that self-continuity, or the degree to which individuals feel that they remain the same person over time regardless of how their specific characteristics may change, would moderate the association between victimization and depressed affect. Both Study 1 (N = 141) and Study 2 (N = 100) provided evidence of the moderating role of self-continuity as a buff…
Firearm Ownership in High-Conflict Families
State Firearm Laws, Firearm Ownership, and Safety Practices Among Families of Preschool-Aged Children
Objectives. We investigated how state-level firearms legislation is associated with firearm ownership and storage among families with preschool-aged children. Methods. Using 2005 nationally representative data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort (n = 8100), we conducted multinomial regression models to examine the associations between state-level firearms legislation generally, child access prevention (CAP) firearms legislati…
How sexual and gender minority students discuss sexuality and gender in describing their experiences of sexual violence
Understanding Youth Perceptions of Neighborhood Disorder
The longitudinal association between externalizing and internalizing problems
The Dual Failure Model suggests that peer victimization (social failure) and academic difficulties (academic failure) mediate the association between externalizing and later internalizing problems. The present study sought to better understand why children with externalizing problems develop later internalizing problems by testing the Dual Failure Model using a sample of 744 children (aged 6 to 10 at Time 1 [T1]), of whom 434 (44.7% girls) presen…
It's about having money, but also happiness
These findings provide a starting point for understanding why adolescents' subjective assessments of status may matter above and beyond traditional assessments of SES, and how we can better measure this construct
An Update on Identifying Same-Sex Couples in the American Time Use Survey
Our study "A Research Note on Time with Children in Different-and Same-Sex Two-Parent Families" This update informs readers about the identification of same-sex couples in the ATUS
Relationship satisfaction among plurisexual young adults
Understanding the link between intimate partner violence and relationship satisfaction is important because of prospective links between this type of satisfaction and mental and physical health. The need to better understand experiences of intimate violence among plurisexual people (those who experience sexual and/or romantic attraction to more than one gender) is highlighted by the fact that they disproportionately experience higher levels of in…
Dating Violence Trajectories in Adolescence
Continuity and Pathways from Aggression in Childhood to Family Violence in Adulthood
Interventions for Childhood Aggression in a Cross-Cultural Context
Negative outcomes associated with childhood aggression, including its relation to adult criminality and domestic violence, have led researchers in the developed world to create effective interventions aimed at reducing childhood aggression and minimising its long-term negative outcomes. This article addresses the implications of adapting these interventions in a developing world context by examining issues central to the discussion of these adapt…
Longitudinal and Concurrent Pathways to Alcoholism
Neighborhood‐level and individual‐level variables from childhood and adulthood were examined in relation to alcoholism in adulthood. In 1976–1978, children from working‐class neighborhood schools in Montreal, Canada participated in a study examining the outcomes of childhood behaviors. At this time, peer nominations of childhood aggression were collected. In 1999–2003, these participants were contacted during mid‐adulthood (N = 676) and asked to …
Family Process Correlates of Firearm Ownership and Firearm Storage Among Families with Young Children
Perceived Neighborhood Safety and Adolescent School Functioning
This study examined the association between adolescents' perceptions of their neighborhoods' safety and multiple elements of their functioning in school with data on 15 year olds from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development ( n = 924). In general, perceived neighborhood safety was more strongly associated with aspects of schooling that were more psychosocial in nature (e.g., school attachment) than those that were more cognitive…
State Firearm Laws, Firearm Ownership, and Safety Practices Among Families of Preschool-Aged Children
Objectives. We investigated how state-level firearms legislation is associated with firearm ownership and storage among families with preschool-aged children. Methods. Using 2005 nationally representative data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Birth Cohort (n = 8100), we conducted multinomial regression models to examine the associations between state-level firearms legislation generally, child access prevention (CAP) firearms legislati…
Peer harassment and risky behavior among sexual minority girls and boys
The role of peer harassment in the association between sexual minority status and adolescent risky behavior was examined for 15-year-olds in the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (n = 957). The findings, although exploratory, suggest the importance of gender. For girls, peer harassment was best viewed as a moderator of the link between sexual minority status and increased risky behavior. It intensified an existing association,…
A Research Note on Time With Children in Different- and Same-Sex Two-Parent Families
Public debate on same-sex marriage often focuses on the disadvantages that children raised by same-sex couples may face. On one hand, little evidence suggests any difference in the outcomes of children raised by same-sex parents and different-sex parents. On the other hand, most studies are limited by problems of sample selection and size, and few directly measure the parenting practices thought to influence child development. This research note …
Prevalence of Dating Violence Among Sexual Minority Youth
Harassment Due to Gender Nonconformity Mediates the Association Between Sexual Minority Identity and Depressive Symptoms
The visibility of a stigmatized identity is central in determining how individuals experience that identity. Sexual minority status (e.g., identifying as gay, lesbian, or bisexual) has traditionally been identified as a concealable stigma, compared with race/ethnicity or physical disability status. This conceptualization fails to recognize, however, the strong link between sexual minority status and a visible stigma: gender nonconformity. Gender …
An Update on Identifying Same-Sex Couples in the American Time Use Survey
Our study "A Research Note on Time with Children in Different-and Same-Sex Two-Parent Families" This update informs readers about the identification of same-sex couples in the ATUS
Self‐Continuity Moderates the Association Between Peer Victimization and Depressed Affect
Two longitudinal studies conducted with early adolescents (ages 10-13) examined the hypothesis that self-continuity, or the degree to which individuals feel that they remain the same person over time regardless of how their specific characteristics may change, would moderate the association between victimization and depressed affect. Both Study 1 (N = 141) and Study 2 (N = 100) provided evidence of the moderating role of self-continuity as a buff…
Firearm Ownership in High-Conflict Families
It's about having money, but also happiness
These findings provide a starting point for understanding why adolescents' subjective assessments of status may matter above and beyond traditional assessments of SES, and how we can better measure this construct
Trajectories of Verbal and Physical Peer Victimization Among Children with Comorbid Oppositional Defiant Problems, Conduct Problems and Hyperactive-Attention Problems
Externalizing Behaviors Exacerbate the Link between Discrimination and Adolescent Health Risk Behaviors
Exploring childhood temperament as a moderator of the association between adolescent sexual minority status and internalizing and externalizing behavior problems
INTRODUCTION: Sexual minority youth experience worse mental health compared to their heterosexual peers, reflecting the consequences of sexual minority-based stigma. Previous research has focused on contextual variation to understand variability within this vulnerability. Childhood temperament factors such as negative affect, effortful control and surgency/extraversion are important for understanding differential susceptibility to environmental s…
The longitudinal association between externalizing and internalizing problems
The Dual Failure Model suggests that peer victimization (social failure) and academic difficulties (academic failure) mediate the association between externalizing and later internalizing problems. The present study sought to better understand why children with externalizing problems develop later internalizing problems by testing the Dual Failure Model using a sample of 744 children (aged 6 to 10 at Time 1 [T1]), of whom 434 (44.7% girls) presen…
Family relationship quality during the Covid‐19 pandemic
INTRODUCTION: Adolescents typically spend decreasing amounts of time with family members, but the COVID-19 pandemic changed this pattern for many youth. The objective of the current study was to better understand adolescents' perceived change in family relationship quality, and how these perceptions were related to psychosocial functioning during the COVID-19 pandemic, accounting for more traditional measures of family relationship quality. Under…
Self and parent‐reported sleep problems of adolescents with childhood conduct problems and comorbid psychological problems
INTRODUCTION: Childhood conduct problems (CP) are characterized by maladaptive externalizing behaviors and are linked with poor sleep. CP are highly comorbid with other psychological problems, including attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder and depression, which are also associated with disturbed sleep. The present study examined if childhood CP and comorbid depressive and/or attentional-hyperactivity problems were prospectively associated wit…
Gender minoritized students and academic engagement in Brazilian adolescents
Gender minoritized students experience unique challenges in their school environments that may have consequences for their educational outcomes, including academic engagement. The goal of the current study was to understand the association between gender identity and academic engagement among adolescents attending public high schools in Paraná, Brazil (N = 10,828). In particular, student perceptions of student-teacher relationships, school rule f…
An Exploration of Intra-individual Mechanisms for the Association Between Childhood Conduct Problems and Early Adolescent Substance Use
Understanding Youth Perceptions of Neighborhood Disorder
Self-Continuity Moderates the Association Between Sexual-Minority Status Based Discrimination and Depressive Symptoms
Self-continuity, or how an individual understands their sense of self as persisting from past to present and present to future, is an important aspect of the self-concept that is linked to mental health outcomes. This self-concept construct may be particularly pertinent for sexual minority populations, as living in a heterosexist environment may prove detrimental for the development of self-continuity. The current study examined self-continuity a…
How sexual and gender minority students discuss sexuality and gender in describing their experiences of sexual violence
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