Elizabeth A Mcconnell
Biographic Data
| ID | 4270889 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth A Mcconnell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth A |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcconnell |
| SIGNATURE | MCCONNELL E A |
| AFFILIATIONS | DePaul University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5792-9791 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 104 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Structural factors shape racial differences in neighbourhood-level HIV risk environments for young men who have sex with men
Despite lower or comparable rates of individual HIV risk behaviours, Black young men who have sex with men in the USA experience disproportionately high rates of HIV. This calls for the exploration of network- and neighbourhood-level determinants of HIV vulnerabilities. Research highlights how Black young men who have sex with men are more likely to reside in low-resource neighbourhoods, to be affiliated with a broader range of neighbourhoods, an…
Understanding social context in HIV and drug use via community-informed computational modeling: Silos study protocol
Introduction: Racial, ethnic, and sexual and gender minority populations are disproportionately impacted by HIV and other infectious diseases. A rigorous and holistic view of how individual and complex factors interact to produce health disparities among minority populations is urgently necessary. Methods: This project seeks to understand the social and contextual systems around the most marginalized HIV-impacted populations by investigating how …
We Live in Different Chicagos”: Racial/Ethnic Differences in the Neighborhood Affiliations of Young Men Who Have Sex with Men as Drivers of HIV Risk
Racial disparities in HIV are well-documented and pervasive, particularly impacting Black young men who have sex with men (YMSM), and are not explained by differences in individual risk behaviors. The Network-Individual-Resource (NIR) Model of HIV Transmission and Prevention (Johnson et al. in AIDS Behav 14:S204-S221, 2010) suggests that focusing on the broader network-level environments of YMSM holds strong promise for identifying social-context…
Relationship inclusivity in sexual and gender minority psychology
Despite critical overlap between sexual and gender minority (SGM) and consensually non-monogamous (CNM) communities, relationship diversity remains a largely unaddressed domain of SGM people's wellbeing. We write to the readership of PSOGD as members of the LGBTQIA+ workgroup within the APA Division 44 Committee on Consensual Non-Monogamy and call for relationship diversity (i.e., CNM) to be meaningfully included within SGM-focused psychological …
Feminist Therapy at The Intersection of Gender Diversity and Neurodiversity
There has been growing awareness of the overlap between transgender, nonbinary, and gender expansive (TNBGE) and neurodivergent identities in recent years. However, many clinicians do not receive adequate training around either gender diversity or neurodiversity, much less their intersection. Further, the ubiquity of the pathology paradigm contributes to practices that further marginalize TNBGE autistic clients. We illustrate how feminist therapy…
Embodied, Situated, and Co-Constructed: Young Sexual Minority Men’s Experiences of Intersectional Identity and Minority Stress
Addressing violence against teachers: A social‐ecological analysis of teachers' perspectives
Much research has been dedicated to supporting school communities in combating the problem of school violence. However, violence directed toward teachers is under‐investigated, and knowledge of how to support teachers is limited. This qualitative study used conventional content analysis to assess teachers' recommendations for preventing and improving the response to teacher‐directed violence. The sample included 245 prekindergarten through 12th g…
Christian and Political Conservatism Predict Opposition to Sexual and Gender Minority Rights through Support for Christian Hegemony
Highlights Opposition to sexual and gender minority (SGM) rights persists in the United States. Christian conservatism and political conservatism are linked to opposition to SGM rights. In this study, support for Christian hegemony helped to explain this link. Our results suggest that a system of Christian power and privilege is a barrier to SGM rights
Everybody Puts Their Whole Life on Facebook”: Identity Management and the Online Social Networks of LGBTQ Youth
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth and young adults almost inevitably "come out", or self-disclose their identity to others. Some LGBTQ youth are more uniformly "out", while others may disclose to some groups but not others. This selective disclosure is complicated on real name social media sites, which tend to encourage a unified presentation of self across social contexts. We explore these complications with a cohort o…
Minority Stressors Associated with Sexual Risk Behaviors and HIV Testing in a U.S. Sample of Transgender Individuals
Multiple minority stress and LGBT community resilience among sexual minority men
Minority stress theory has widespread research support in explaining health disparities experienced by sexual and gender minorities. However, less is known about how minority stress impacts multiply marginalized groups, such as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people of color (LGBT POC). Also, although research has documented resilience in the face of minority stress at the individual level, research is needed that examines macro-level pro…
Christian campus-ministry groups at public universities and opposition to same-sex marriage
The Ecology of Teachers’ Experiences with Violence and Lack of Administrative Support
Highlights Teacher‐directed violence is a significant problem in schools. Lack of support from administrators was one of teachers’ most upsetting experiences. An ecological framework was used to examine lack of administrative support across multiple levels. Implications for research, practice, and policy are provided to improve administrative support
Families Matter: Social Support and Mental Health Trajectories Among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Youth
Complicating Counterspaces: Intersectionality and the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival
The counterspaces framework articulated by Case and Hunter (2012), follows from community psychology's long-standing interest in the potential for settings to promote well-being and liberatory responses to oppression. This framework proposes that certain settings (i.e., "counterspaces") facilitate a specific set of processes that promote the well-being of marginalized groups. We argue that an intersectional analysis is crucial to understand wheth…
Typologies of Social Support and Associations with Mental Health Outcomes Among LGBT Youth
Distinct coping combinations are associated with depression and support service utilization in men who have sex with men living with HIV
Stigma and stress may place HIV-positive men who have sex with men (HIV+ MSM) at risk for depression. Additionally, HIV+ MSM might utilize multiple HIV-related services as a way to gain support for, and more effectively manage, HIV-related stressors. Although prior research has demonstrated that depression severity and utilizing support services are associated with functional or dysfunctional coping strategies, researchers have not investigated t…
Trans women and Michfest: An ethnophenomenology of attendees' experiences
The rise of queer and transgender studies has greatly contributed to feminist and lesbian understandings of sex, gender, and sexuality and also has resulted in rifts, tensions, and border wars. One such tension is around the inclusion of trans women in women-only space, such as the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival (Michfest). In this ethnophenomenological study, we interviewed and surveyed 43 cisgender women who attended Michfest in 2013. Particip…
Differences in White Privilege Attitudes and Religious Beliefs Across Racial Affect Types
This study extends research on the psychosocial costs of racism to Whites (PCRW) cluster types. We examined differences in White privilege attitudes across different PCRW cluster types in a sample of White Christian students ( N = 437). We also examined differences in religious beliefs, specifically religious liberalism and sanctification of social justice, across students in different PCRW cluster types. This provides an initial intersection of …
Understanding Associations between Religious Beliefs and White Privilege Attitudes
Scholars have grappled with how religion in the United States shapes attitudes toward racial inequality, often by focusing on racial inequality as out-group disadvantage. The current study extends this research by moving beyond racial inequality as out-group disadvantage to examine how religious conservatism and sanctification of social justice (i.e., attributing spiritual or religious significance to working for social justice) are associated wi…
Design of a comparative effectiveness evaluation of a culturally tailored versus standard community-based smoking cessation treatment program for LGBT smokers
U.S. National Institutes of Health Clinical Trials NCT01633567 Registered 30 May 2012
The Role of Attitudes Toward White Privilege and Religious Beliefs in Predicting Social Justice Interest and Commitment
The current study examines links among attitudes toward White privilege, religious beliefs, and social justice interest and commitment for White Christian students. Two distinct patterns of results emerged from a path analysis of 500 White Christian students. First, a willingness to confront White privilege was positively associated with the sanctification of social justice (i.e., attributing spiritual significance to working for social justice) …
Multiple minority stress and LGBT community resilience among sexual minority men
Minority stress theory has widespread research support in explaining health disparities experienced by sexual and gender minorities. However, less is known about how minority stress impacts multiply marginalized groups, such as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people of color (LGBT POC). Also, although research has documented resilience in the face of minority stress at the individual level, research is needed that examines macro-level pro…
Complicating Counterspaces: Intersectionality and the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival
The counterspaces framework articulated by Case and Hunter (2012), follows from community psychology's long-standing interest in the potential for settings to promote well-being and liberatory responses to oppression. This framework proposes that certain settings (i.e., "counterspaces") facilitate a specific set of processes that promote the well-being of marginalized groups. We argue that an intersectional analysis is crucial to understand wheth…
Christian and Political Conservatism Predict Opposition to Sexual and Gender Minority Rights through Support for Christian Hegemony
Highlights Opposition to sexual and gender minority (SGM) rights persists in the United States. Christian conservatism and political conservatism are linked to opposition to SGM rights. In this study, support for Christian hegemony helped to explain this link. Our results suggest that a system of Christian power and privilege is a barrier to SGM rights
The Role of Attitudes Toward White Privilege and Religious Beliefs in Predicting Social Justice Interest and Commitment
The current study examines links among attitudes toward White privilege, religious beliefs, and social justice interest and commitment for White Christian students. Two distinct patterns of results emerged from a path analysis of 500 White Christian students. First, a willingness to confront White privilege was positively associated with the sanctification of social justice (i.e., attributing spiritual significance to working for social justice) …
Embodied, Situated, and Co-Constructed: Young Sexual Minority Men’s Experiences of Intersectional Identity and Minority Stress
Trans women and Michfest: An ethnophenomenology of attendees' experiences
The rise of queer and transgender studies has greatly contributed to feminist and lesbian understandings of sex, gender, and sexuality and also has resulted in rifts, tensions, and border wars. One such tension is around the inclusion of trans women in women-only space, such as the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival (Michfest). In this ethnophenomenological study, we interviewed and surveyed 43 cisgender women who attended Michfest in 2013. Particip…
Differences in White Privilege Attitudes and Religious Beliefs Across Racial Affect Types
This study extends research on the psychosocial costs of racism to Whites (PCRW) cluster types. We examined differences in White privilege attitudes across different PCRW cluster types in a sample of White Christian students ( N = 437). We also examined differences in religious beliefs, specifically religious liberalism and sanctification of social justice, across students in different PCRW cluster types. This provides an initial intersection of …
Understanding Associations between Religious Beliefs and White Privilege Attitudes
Scholars have grappled with how religion in the United States shapes attitudes toward racial inequality, often by focusing on racial inequality as out-group disadvantage. The current study extends this research by moving beyond racial inequality as out-group disadvantage to examine how religious conservatism and sanctification of social justice (i.e., attributing spiritual or religious significance to working for social justice) are associated wi…
The Ecology of Teachers’ Experiences with Violence and Lack of Administrative Support
Highlights Teacher‐directed violence is a significant problem in schools. Lack of support from administrators was one of teachers’ most upsetting experiences. An ecological framework was used to examine lack of administrative support across multiple levels. Implications for research, practice, and policy are provided to improve administrative support
Feminist Therapy at The Intersection of Gender Diversity and Neurodiversity
There has been growing awareness of the overlap between transgender, nonbinary, and gender expansive (TNBGE) and neurodivergent identities in recent years. However, many clinicians do not receive adequate training around either gender diversity or neurodiversity, much less their intersection. Further, the ubiquity of the pathology paradigm contributes to practices that further marginalize TNBGE autistic clients. We illustrate how feminist therapy…
Distinct coping combinations are associated with depression and support service utilization in men who have sex with men living with HIV
Stigma and stress may place HIV-positive men who have sex with men (HIV+ MSM) at risk for depression. Additionally, HIV+ MSM might utilize multiple HIV-related services as a way to gain support for, and more effectively manage, HIV-related stressors. Although prior research has demonstrated that depression severity and utilizing support services are associated with functional or dysfunctional coping strategies, researchers have not investigated t…
Design of a comparative effectiveness evaluation of a culturally tailored versus standard community-based smoking cessation treatment program for LGBT smokers
U.S. National Institutes of Health Clinical Trials NCT01633567 Registered 30 May 2012
The Role of Attitudes Toward White Privilege and Religious Beliefs in Predicting Social Justice Interest and Commitment
The current study examines links among attitudes toward White privilege, religious beliefs, and social justice interest and commitment for White Christian students. Two distinct patterns of results emerged from a path analysis of 500 White Christian students. First, a willingness to confront White privilege was positively associated with the sanctification of social justice (i.e., attributing spiritual significance to working for social justice) …
Typologies of Social Support and Associations with Mental Health Outcomes Among LGBT Youth
Distinct coping combinations are associated with depression and support service utilization in men who have sex with men living with HIV
Stigma and stress may place HIV-positive men who have sex with men (HIV+ MSM) at risk for depression. Additionally, HIV+ MSM might utilize multiple HIV-related services as a way to gain support for, and more effectively manage, HIV-related stressors. Although prior research has demonstrated that depression severity and utilizing support services are associated with functional or dysfunctional coping strategies, researchers have not investigated t…
Trans women and Michfest: An ethnophenomenology of attendees' experiences
The rise of queer and transgender studies has greatly contributed to feminist and lesbian understandings of sex, gender, and sexuality and also has resulted in rifts, tensions, and border wars. One such tension is around the inclusion of trans women in women-only space, such as the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival (Michfest). In this ethnophenomenological study, we interviewed and surveyed 43 cisgender women who attended Michfest in 2013. Particip…
Differences in White Privilege Attitudes and Religious Beliefs Across Racial Affect Types
This study extends research on the psychosocial costs of racism to Whites (PCRW) cluster types. We examined differences in White privilege attitudes across different PCRW cluster types in a sample of White Christian students ( N = 437). We also examined differences in religious beliefs, specifically religious liberalism and sanctification of social justice, across students in different PCRW cluster types. This provides an initial intersection of …
Understanding Associations between Religious Beliefs and White Privilege Attitudes
Scholars have grappled with how religion in the United States shapes attitudes toward racial inequality, often by focusing on racial inequality as out-group disadvantage. The current study extends this research by moving beyond racial inequality as out-group disadvantage to examine how religious conservatism and sanctification of social justice (i.e., attributing spiritual or religious significance to working for social justice) are associated wi…
Families Matter: Social Support and Mental Health Trajectories Among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Youth
Complicating Counterspaces: Intersectionality and the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival
The counterspaces framework articulated by Case and Hunter (2012), follows from community psychology's long-standing interest in the potential for settings to promote well-being and liberatory responses to oppression. This framework proposes that certain settings (i.e., "counterspaces") facilitate a specific set of processes that promote the well-being of marginalized groups. We argue that an intersectional analysis is crucial to understand wheth…
Christian campus-ministry groups at public universities and opposition to same-sex marriage
The Ecology of Teachers’ Experiences with Violence and Lack of Administrative Support
Highlights Teacher‐directed violence is a significant problem in schools. Lack of support from administrators was one of teachers’ most upsetting experiences. An ecological framework was used to examine lack of administrative support across multiple levels. Implications for research, practice, and policy are provided to improve administrative support
Everybody Puts Their Whole Life on Facebook”: Identity Management and the Online Social Networks of LGBTQ Youth
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth and young adults almost inevitably "come out", or self-disclose their identity to others. Some LGBTQ youth are more uniformly "out", while others may disclose to some groups but not others. This selective disclosure is complicated on real name social media sites, which tend to encourage a unified presentation of self across social contexts. We explore these complications with a cohort o…
Minority Stressors Associated with Sexual Risk Behaviors and HIV Testing in a U.S. Sample of Transgender Individuals
Multiple minority stress and LGBT community resilience among sexual minority men
Minority stress theory has widespread research support in explaining health disparities experienced by sexual and gender minorities. However, less is known about how minority stress impacts multiply marginalized groups, such as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people of color (LGBT POC). Also, although research has documented resilience in the face of minority stress at the individual level, research is needed that examines macro-level pro…
Addressing violence against teachers: A social‐ecological analysis of teachers' perspectives
Much research has been dedicated to supporting school communities in combating the problem of school violence. However, violence directed toward teachers is under‐investigated, and knowledge of how to support teachers is limited. This qualitative study used conventional content analysis to assess teachers' recommendations for preventing and improving the response to teacher‐directed violence. The sample included 245 prekindergarten through 12th g…
Christian and Political Conservatism Predict Opposition to Sexual and Gender Minority Rights through Support for Christian Hegemony
Highlights Opposition to sexual and gender minority (SGM) rights persists in the United States. Christian conservatism and political conservatism are linked to opposition to SGM rights. In this study, support for Christian hegemony helped to explain this link. Our results suggest that a system of Christian power and privilege is a barrier to SGM rights
Embodied, Situated, and Co-Constructed: Young Sexual Minority Men’s Experiences of Intersectional Identity and Minority Stress
Feminist Therapy at The Intersection of Gender Diversity and Neurodiversity
There has been growing awareness of the overlap between transgender, nonbinary, and gender expansive (TNBGE) and neurodivergent identities in recent years. However, many clinicians do not receive adequate training around either gender diversity or neurodiversity, much less their intersection. Further, the ubiquity of the pathology paradigm contributes to practices that further marginalize TNBGE autistic clients. We illustrate how feminist therapy…
Relationship inclusivity in sexual and gender minority psychology
Despite critical overlap between sexual and gender minority (SGM) and consensually non-monogamous (CNM) communities, relationship diversity remains a largely unaddressed domain of SGM people's wellbeing. We write to the readership of PSOGD as members of the LGBTQIA+ workgroup within the APA Division 44 Committee on Consensual Non-Monogamy and call for relationship diversity (i.e., CNM) to be meaningfully included within SGM-focused psychological …
Understanding social context in HIV and drug use via community-informed computational modeling: Silos study protocol
Introduction: Racial, ethnic, and sexual and gender minority populations are disproportionately impacted by HIV and other infectious diseases. A rigorous and holistic view of how individual and complex factors interact to produce health disparities among minority populations is urgently necessary. Methods: This project seeks to understand the social and contextual systems around the most marginalized HIV-impacted populations by investigating how …
We Live in Different Chicagos”: Racial/Ethnic Differences in the Neighborhood Affiliations of Young Men Who Have Sex with Men as Drivers of HIV Risk
Racial disparities in HIV are well-documented and pervasive, particularly impacting Black young men who have sex with men (YMSM), and are not explained by differences in individual risk behaviors. The Network-Individual-Resource (NIR) Model of HIV Transmission and Prevention (Johnson et al. in AIDS Behav 14:S204-S221, 2010) suggests that focusing on the broader network-level environments of YMSM holds strong promise for identifying social-context…
Structural factors shape racial differences in neighbourhood-level HIV risk environments for young men who have sex with men
Despite lower or comparable rates of individual HIV risk behaviours, Black young men who have sex with men in the USA experience disproportionately high rates of HIV. This calls for the exploration of network- and neighbourhood-level determinants of HIV vulnerabilities. Research highlights how Black young men who have sex with men are more likely to reside in low-resource neighbourhoods, to be affiliated with a broader range of neighbourhoods, an…
Psychology (20 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (10 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Transgender (9 works) · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works)