Corey E Flanders
Biographic Data
| ID | 658617 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Corey E Flanders |
| GIVEN NAMES | Corey E |
| FAMILY NAME | Flanders |
| SIGNATURE | FLANDERS C E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mount Holyoke College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1978-7240 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 200 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Longitudinal Prevalence of and Associations Among Bisexual Stigma, Discrimination, Sexual Victimization, and Mental Health Outcomes Among Young Bi + People: An Investigation Across Gender and Race/Eth…
Sexual victimization and mental health disparities have been consistently documented amongst bi + populations across the past decade. Less research has focused on identifying what factors increase bi + people’s vulnerability for these negative health outcomes, or how those factors might differ across different groups of bi + people. The current paper reports on a 12-month longitudinal study investigating the monthly prevalence of bisexual stigma …
Experiences of community connection and belonging for sexual minority trans individuals
Sexual violence and mental health among young bi+ and lesbian women and gender minoritized people
Sexual stigma and violence are related to mental health among young bi+ and lesbian women and gender minoritized people
A Quantitative Intersectional Exploration of Sexual Violence and Mental Health among Bi + People: Looking within and across Race and Gender
Young bisexual people report disparities related to mental health and sexual violence compared to their heterosexual and gay/lesbian peers. However, the majority of research in these areas does not employ an intersectional design, despite evidence that health outcomes vary by race and gender within bi + populations. The goal of this paper is to provide an intersectionally-informed exploration of the prevalence of sexual violence among a diverse s…
Young Sexual Minority Women’s Evaluation Processes of Online and Digital Sexual Health Information
Young sexual minority women (SMW) report worse sexual health outcomes in comparison to their heterosexual peers. One potential reason for this disparity could be SMW's lack of access to accurate and appropriate sexual health information. Many sexual minority youth report school-based sexual health curricula to be less useful than do heterosexual youth. As such, SMW may be more likely to seek sexual health information online. However, not all onli…
Exploring potential determinants of sexual victimization disparities among young sexual minoritized people: A mixed-method study
Young sexual minoritized people report elevated rates of sexual violence in comparison to their heterosexual peers. This health disparity is largest among lesbian and bisexual people, and in particular bisexual women. We know little about what drives this health disparity, which is critically necessary information for developing effective sexual violence interventions. Recently, sexual stigma has been identified as an important factor related to …
Introduction to the special issue: Queer and trans people’s experiences of sexual violence
We, the guest editors, have come to the topic of queer and trans experiences of sexual violence from different paths even though we started our careers in Psychology at the same institution (Rock C
It’s Almost Like Bis, Pans Kind of Stick Together: ” Bi + Belonging and Community Connection
Belonging and community connection are important for all people, but are particularly important for bi+ (including bisexual, pansexual, queer, and other plurisexual) individuals due to experiences of anti-bisexual stigma and delegitimization by both heterosexual and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) communities. A gap in the literature exists regarding bi + people’s definitions and processes of locating bi + belonging and co…
Young Bisexual People’s Experiences of Sexual Violence: A Mixed-Methods Study
Bisexual people are at an increased vulnerability for sexual victimization in comparison to heterosexual people, as well as gay and lesbian people. As the majority of first sexual violence experiences happen prior to age 25 for bisexual women, young bisexual people are particularly vulnerable. Despite consistent evidence of this health disparity, little is known about what factors might increase young bisexual people's risk for sexual victimizati…
Gender Socialization Practices Among Bisexual and Other Nonmonosexual Mothers: A Longitudinal Qualitative Examination
Though social scientists have researched sexual minority parenting practices regarding the gender socialization of children, to date this research has focused exclusively on sexual minority parents in same-gender relationships, and almost exclusively on the experiences of gay and lesbian parents. The current paper addresses the gender socialization parenting practices of 25 nonmonosexual sexual minority women who are in different-gender relations…
Reproductive and Pregnancy Experiences of Diverse Sexual Minority Women: A Descriptive Exploratory Study
Bisexual women’s experiences of microaggressions and microaffirmations and their relation to mental health
Relationships Between Social Support, Identity, Anxiety, and Depression Among Young Bisexual People of Color
Bisexual People of Color (POC) may experience greater barriers in connecting to social support compared to White sexual minority people and heterosexual racial or ethnic minority people due to multiple intersecting experiences of marginalization. Social support may be positively related to bisexual identity experience and mental health. We investigated the relationships between different types of social support, bisexual identity experience, and …
Sexual Well-Being Among College Students: A Qualitative Study
Bisexual Stigma, Sexual Violence, and Sexual Health Among Bisexual and Other Plurisexual Women: A Cross-Sectional Survey Study
Bisexual women experience higher rates of sexual victimization relative to heterosexual and lesbian women, and worse sexual health outcomes. Though these health disparities are well documented in the literature, few empirical data have been published on what factors are driving these disparities. Further, research documenting sexual victimization and health of plurisexual (i.e., attracted to more than one gender) women group all participants as b…
Under the Bisexual Umbrella: Diversity of Identity and Experience
A Critical Examination of Online News Media Representations of Bisexual Women Who Use Cannabis
In spring 2015, Robinson's article entitled, “The role of anxiety in bisexual women's use of cannabis in Canada,” was published in Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, presenting findings from a mixed-methods study of bisexual women's cannabis use. The study found that 33.6% of bisexual women in the province of Ontario, Canada, had used cannabis in the past year; 5 times greater than that for Canadian women in general (Bauer et …
Sexual health among young bisexual women: A qualitative, community-based study
Young bisexual women experience health disparities related to sexual health, yet there is comparatively little research that addresses which specific factors drive these disparities. The current study investigates young bisexual women’s perspective of their sexual health in order to address this gap. We conducted a community-based qualitative study in Canada, which included four two-hour focus group sessions with 35 bisexual women (broadly define…
Under the Bisexual Umbrella: Diversity of Identity and Experience
I am pleased to introduce the special issue, “Under the Bisexual Umbrella: Diversity of Identity and Experience.” Included in this issue is a series of articles detailing many complexities within t
Pregnant Plurisexual Women's Sexual and Relationship Histories across the Life Span: A Qualitative Study
Plurisexual women (that is, those with the potential for attraction to more than one gender) experience unique issues associated with forming and maintaining intimate relationships. In particular, plurisexual women, unlike monosexual women, navigate choices and decisions related to the gender of their partners throughout their lifetime, and may experience a variety of social pressures and constraints that influence these decisions. However, previ…
Characterizing non-monosexual women at risk for poor mental health outcomes: A mixed methods study
Positive Identity Experiences of Young Bisexual and Other Nonmonosexual People: A Qualitative Inquiry
The majority of LGBTQ psychological research focuses on dysfunction. The exclusion of strengths-based perspectives in LGBTQ psychology limits the understanding of LGBTQ mental health. In this article we report experiences that young bisexual and other nonmonosexual people perceive as affirming of their sexual identity. A 28-day, daily diary study was used to investigate whether bisexual-identified participants encountered positive experiences rel…
Bisexuality, social identity, and well-being: An exploratory study
This study investigated whether elements of Social Identity Theory (SIT) and Self-Categorization Theory (SCT) appropriately described experiences of bisexual people in terms of accurately predicting the effect of self-stereotyping on well-being. Previous research has indicated that self-stereotyping is protective for members of marginalized groups. This study manipulated prototypicality, or self-stereotyping, to determine whether it affected well…
Negative identity experiences of bisexual and other non-monosexual people: A qualitative report
In this article, we report experiences that bisexual and other nonmonosexual people perceive as negative or threatening toward their sexual identity that may relate to mental health. A 28-day, daily diary study investigated whether participants encountered negative experiences related to their sexual identity. Using a constructivist grounded theory approach, participants' experiences were organized according to a social ecological model. Experien…
Occurrence of multiple mental health or substance use outcomes among bisexuals: A respondent-driven sampling study
Mental health and substance use outcomes with high prevalence among bisexuals frequently co-occurred. We find some support for the theory that these multiple outcomes represent a syndemic, defined as co-occurring and mutually reinforcing adverse outcomes driven by social inequity
Bisexual Stigma, Sexual Violence, and Sexual Health Among Bisexual and Other Plurisexual Women: A Cross-Sectional Survey Study
Bisexual women experience higher rates of sexual victimization relative to heterosexual and lesbian women, and worse sexual health outcomes. Though these health disparities are well documented in the literature, few empirical data have been published on what factors are driving these disparities. Further, research documenting sexual victimization and health of plurisexual (i.e., attracted to more than one gender) women group all participants as b…
Positive Identity Experiences of Young Bisexual and Other Nonmonosexual People: A Qualitative Inquiry
The majority of LGBTQ psychological research focuses on dysfunction. The exclusion of strengths-based perspectives in LGBTQ psychology limits the understanding of LGBTQ mental health. In this article we report experiences that young bisexual and other nonmonosexual people perceive as affirming of their sexual identity. A 28-day, daily diary study was used to investigate whether bisexual-identified participants encountered positive experiences rel…
I’m Never Really My Full Self”: Young Bisexual Women's Perceptions of their Mental Health
Young bisexual women report worse mental health outcomes in comparison to young heterosexual and lesbian women. Although these mental health disparities have been documented consistently in recent research, few researchers have investigated how young bisexual women understand their mental health and perceived factors that influence mental health disparities within their communities. Understanding more about how young bisexual women perceive their…
Relationships Between Social Support, Identity, Anxiety, and Depression Among Young Bisexual People of Color
Bisexual People of Color (POC) may experience greater barriers in connecting to social support compared to White sexual minority people and heterosexual racial or ethnic minority people due to multiple intersecting experiences of marginalization. Social support may be positively related to bisexual identity experience and mental health. We investigated the relationships between different types of social support, bisexual identity experience, and …
Defining Bisexuality: Young Bisexual and Pansexual People's Voices
Bisexuality is defined in a plethora of ways, including definitions based on behavior, attraction, or desire and may employ binary or nonbinary definitions. Research has not adequately addressed how young bisexual people themselves define bisexuality, whether those definitions change with social context, or whether bisexual people define bisexuality differently from pansexual people. The current study addresses these questions through an online, …
Under the Bisexual Umbrella: Diversity of Identity and Experience
I am pleased to introduce the special issue, “Under the Bisexual Umbrella: Diversity of Identity and Experience.” Included in this issue is a series of articles detailing many complexities within t
Characterizing non-monosexual women at risk for poor mental health outcomes: A mixed methods study
Bisexual women’s experiences of microaggressions and microaffirmations and their relation to mental health
Perceptions of Gender and Bisexuality: An Exploration of the Relationship Between Perceived Masculinity, Femininity, and Sexual Ambiguity
One of the most enduring stereotypes of gay and lesbian individuals is that they are cross sex-typed, meaning that each group possesses gender characteristics that we typically assign to the other gender: Gay men are typically perceived to be more feminine than straight men and lesbian women, and lesbian women are typically seen as more masculine than straight women and gay men. However, few have investigated whether these same stereotypes apply …
Social perception of bisexuality
Theorists have pointed out that in America the bisexual community tends to be more or less invisible (Firestein, B.A. (1996). Bisexuality as a paradigm shift: Transforming our disciplines. In B.A. Firestein (Ed.), Bisexuality: The psychology and politics of an invisible minority (pp. 263--291). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage). They offer many reasons why this is so, including the tendency for people to assume that one’s sexual orientation can be judged …
Positive Psychology: What Impact has it had on Sex Research Publication Trends
It’s Almost Like Bis, Pans Kind of Stick Together: ” Bi + Belonging and Community Connection
Belonging and community connection are important for all people, but are particularly important for bi+ (including bisexual, pansexual, queer, and other plurisexual) individuals due to experiences of anti-bisexual stigma and delegitimization by both heterosexual and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) communities. A gap in the literature exists regarding bi + people’s definitions and processes of locating bi + belonging and co…
Understanding young bisexual women’s sexual, reproductive and mental health through syndemic theory
Young Bisexual People’s Experiences of Sexual Violence: A Mixed-Methods Study
Bisexual people are at an increased vulnerability for sexual victimization in comparison to heterosexual people, as well as gay and lesbian people. As the majority of first sexual violence experiences happen prior to age 25 for bisexual women, young bisexual people are particularly vulnerable. Despite consistent evidence of this health disparity, little is known about what factors might increase young bisexual people's risk for sexual victimizati…
Sexual health among young bisexual women: A qualitative, community-based study
Young bisexual women experience health disparities related to sexual health, yet there is comparatively little research that addresses which specific factors drive these disparities. The current study investigates young bisexual women’s perspective of their sexual health in order to address this gap. We conducted a community-based qualitative study in Canada, which included four two-hour focus group sessions with 35 bisexual women (broadly define…
A Quantitative Intersectional Exploration of Sexual Violence and Mental Health among Bi + People: Looking within and across Race and Gender
Young bisexual people report disparities related to mental health and sexual violence compared to their heterosexual and gay/lesbian peers. However, the majority of research in these areas does not employ an intersectional design, despite evidence that health outcomes vary by race and gender within bi + populations. The goal of this paper is to provide an intersectionally-informed exploration of the prevalence of sexual violence among a diverse s…
Pregnant Plurisexual Women's Sexual and Relationship Histories across the Life Span: A Qualitative Study
Plurisexual women (that is, those with the potential for attraction to more than one gender) experience unique issues associated with forming and maintaining intimate relationships. In particular, plurisexual women, unlike monosexual women, navigate choices and decisions related to the gender of their partners throughout their lifetime, and may experience a variety of social pressures and constraints that influence these decisions. However, previ…
Exploring potential determinants of sexual victimization disparities among young sexual minoritized people: A mixed-method study
Young sexual minoritized people report elevated rates of sexual violence in comparison to their heterosexual peers. This health disparity is largest among lesbian and bisexual people, and in particular bisexual women. We know little about what drives this health disparity, which is critically necessary information for developing effective sexual violence interventions. Recently, sexual stigma has been identified as an important factor related to …
Sexual Well-Being Among College Students: A Qualitative Study
Are variations in gender equality evident in pornography? A cross-cultural study
Social perception of bisexuality
Theorists have pointed out that in America the bisexual community tends to be more or less invisible (Firestein, B.A. (1996). Bisexuality as a paradigm shift: Transforming our disciplines. In B.A. Firestein (Ed.), Bisexuality: The psychology and politics of an invisible minority (pp. 263--291). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage). They offer many reasons why this is so, including the tendency for people to assume that one’s sexual orientation can be judged …
Positive Psychology: What Impact has it had on Sex Research Publication Trends
Are variations in gender equality evident in pornography? A cross-cultural study
Perceptions of Gender and Bisexuality: An Exploration of the Relationship Between Perceived Masculinity, Femininity, and Sexual Ambiguity
One of the most enduring stereotypes of gay and lesbian individuals is that they are cross sex-typed, meaning that each group possesses gender characteristics that we typically assign to the other gender: Gay men are typically perceived to be more feminine than straight men and lesbian women, and lesbian women are typically seen as more masculine than straight women and gay men. However, few have investigated whether these same stereotypes apply …
I’m Never Really My Full Self”: Young Bisexual Women's Perceptions of their Mental Health
Young bisexual women report worse mental health outcomes in comparison to young heterosexual and lesbian women. Although these mental health disparities have been documented consistently in recent research, few researchers have investigated how young bisexual women understand their mental health and perceived factors that influence mental health disparities within their communities. Understanding more about how young bisexual women perceive their…
Understanding young bisexual women’s sexual, reproductive and mental health through syndemic theory
Bisexuality, social identity, and well-being: An exploratory study
This study investigated whether elements of Social Identity Theory (SIT) and Self-Categorization Theory (SCT) appropriately described experiences of bisexual people in terms of accurately predicting the effect of self-stereotyping on well-being. Previous research has indicated that self-stereotyping is protective for members of marginalized groups. This study manipulated prototypicality, or self-stereotyping, to determine whether it affected well…
Negative identity experiences of bisexual and other non-monosexual people: A qualitative report
In this article, we report experiences that bisexual and other nonmonosexual people perceive as negative or threatening toward their sexual identity that may relate to mental health. A 28-day, daily diary study investigated whether participants encountered negative experiences related to their sexual identity. Using a constructivist grounded theory approach, participants' experiences were organized according to a social ecological model. Experien…
Occurrence of multiple mental health or substance use outcomes among bisexuals: A respondent-driven sampling study
Mental health and substance use outcomes with high prevalence among bisexuals frequently co-occurred. We find some support for the theory that these multiple outcomes represent a syndemic, defined as co-occurring and mutually reinforcing adverse outcomes driven by social inequity
Young bisexual women’s perspectives on the relationship between bisexual stigma, mental health, and sexual health: A qualitative study
Young bisexual women experience worse mental and sexual health outcomes in comparison to their heterosexual and lesbian peers. These disparities are associated with stigma and devaluation of bisexual identities. The current paper addresses a community-based focus group project in which participants discussed bisexual stigma in regard to bisexual erasure and other stereotypes. Specifically, participants detailed experiences of feeling pressured to…
Defining Bisexuality: Young Bisexual and Pansexual People's Voices
Bisexuality is defined in a plethora of ways, including definitions based on behavior, attraction, or desire and may employ binary or nonbinary definitions. Research has not adequately addressed how young bisexual people themselves define bisexuality, whether those definitions change with social context, or whether bisexual people define bisexuality differently from pansexual people. The current study addresses these questions through an online, …
Sexual health among young bisexual women: A qualitative, community-based study
Young bisexual women experience health disparities related to sexual health, yet there is comparatively little research that addresses which specific factors drive these disparities. The current study investigates young bisexual women’s perspective of their sexual health in order to address this gap. We conducted a community-based qualitative study in Canada, which included four two-hour focus group sessions with 35 bisexual women (broadly define…
Under the Bisexual Umbrella: Diversity of Identity and Experience
I am pleased to introduce the special issue, “Under the Bisexual Umbrella: Diversity of Identity and Experience.” Included in this issue is a series of articles detailing many complexities within t
Pregnant Plurisexual Women's Sexual and Relationship Histories across the Life Span: A Qualitative Study
Plurisexual women (that is, those with the potential for attraction to more than one gender) experience unique issues associated with forming and maintaining intimate relationships. In particular, plurisexual women, unlike monosexual women, navigate choices and decisions related to the gender of their partners throughout their lifetime, and may experience a variety of social pressures and constraints that influence these decisions. However, previ…
Characterizing non-monosexual women at risk for poor mental health outcomes: A mixed methods study
Positive Identity Experiences of Young Bisexual and Other Nonmonosexual People: A Qualitative Inquiry
The majority of LGBTQ psychological research focuses on dysfunction. The exclusion of strengths-based perspectives in LGBTQ psychology limits the understanding of LGBTQ mental health. In this article we report experiences that young bisexual and other nonmonosexual people perceive as affirming of their sexual identity. A 28-day, daily diary study was used to investigate whether bisexual-identified participants encountered positive experiences rel…
Under the Bisexual Umbrella: Diversity of Identity and Experience
A Critical Examination of Online News Media Representations of Bisexual Women Who Use Cannabis
In spring 2015, Robinson's article entitled, “The role of anxiety in bisexual women's use of cannabis in Canada,” was published in Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, presenting findings from a mixed-methods study of bisexual women's cannabis use. The study found that 33.6% of bisexual women in the province of Ontario, Canada, had used cannabis in the past year; 5 times greater than that for Canadian women in general (Bauer et …
Gender Socialization Practices Among Bisexual and Other Nonmonosexual Mothers: A Longitudinal Qualitative Examination
Though social scientists have researched sexual minority parenting practices regarding the gender socialization of children, to date this research has focused exclusively on sexual minority parents in same-gender relationships, and almost exclusively on the experiences of gay and lesbian parents. The current paper addresses the gender socialization parenting practices of 25 nonmonosexual sexual minority women who are in different-gender relations…
Reproductive and Pregnancy Experiences of Diverse Sexual Minority Women: A Descriptive Exploratory Study
Bisexual women’s experiences of microaggressions and microaffirmations and their relation to mental health
Relationships Between Social Support, Identity, Anxiety, and Depression Among Young Bisexual People of Color
Bisexual People of Color (POC) may experience greater barriers in connecting to social support compared to White sexual minority people and heterosexual racial or ethnic minority people due to multiple intersecting experiences of marginalization. Social support may be positively related to bisexual identity experience and mental health. We investigated the relationships between different types of social support, bisexual identity experience, and …
Sexual Well-Being Among College Students: A Qualitative Study
Bisexual Stigma, Sexual Violence, and Sexual Health Among Bisexual and Other Plurisexual Women: A Cross-Sectional Survey Study
Bisexual women experience higher rates of sexual victimization relative to heterosexual and lesbian women, and worse sexual health outcomes. Though these health disparities are well documented in the literature, few empirical data have been published on what factors are driving these disparities. Further, research documenting sexual victimization and health of plurisexual (i.e., attracted to more than one gender) women group all participants as b…
Young Bisexual People’s Experiences of Sexual Violence: A Mixed-Methods Study
Bisexual people are at an increased vulnerability for sexual victimization in comparison to heterosexual people, as well as gay and lesbian people. As the majority of first sexual violence experiences happen prior to age 25 for bisexual women, young bisexual people are particularly vulnerable. Despite consistent evidence of this health disparity, little is known about what factors might increase young bisexual people's risk for sexual victimizati…
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