Suzanne C Ouellette
Biographic Data
| ID | 83527 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Suzanne C Ouellette |
| GIVEN NAMES | Suzanne C |
| FAMILY NAME | Ouellette |
| SIGNATURE | OUELLETTE S C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Graduate Center, CUNY |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 169 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
What Ricoeur’s hermeneutics reveal about self and identity and aesthetic experience
By analyzing eminent artists’ depictions of their experiences as taken from too-long-neglected interviews with Sigmund Koch and juxtaposing these with Ricoeur’s regressive and progressive hermeneutics and contemporary concerns in narrative psychology, the authors open new avenues of inquiry into self, identity, and art. Using interviews with Toni Morrison and Arthur Miller, they demonstrate how the creative process involves a concurrent interroga…
Symposium on the life and work of Ignacio Martín-Baró: Introduction and reflections
A Search for Meaning: Recognizing the Potential of Narrative Research in Social Policy-Making Efforts
We’d Be Free: Narratives of Life Without Homophobia, Racism, or Sexism
Beyond Single Identity & Pathology: Revealing Coherent Multiple Selves and Transformative Activism in the Narratives of Two Transgender Women
This paper uses a conceptual framework based in critical personality psychology and a narrative strategy of inquiry to understand how two transgender women, whose lives and identities are depicted by sociological and clinical literatures as unidimensional and pathological, construct a set of multiple, coherent, and transformative selves. Through their unique approaches to questions posed in McAdams' (1995b) Life Story Interview, these women depic…
A Qualitative Approach to the Intersection of Sexual, Ethnic, and Gender Identities
In this paper we report on a new qualitative instrument designed to study the intersection of identities related to sexuality and race/ethnicity, and how people who hold those identities interact with social contexts. Researchers often resort to using separate measures to assess race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, and other target identities. But this approach can miss elements of a self-system that stem from the intersection of identities, the i…
Breast Cancer Patients' Experience of External-Beam Radiotherapy
Radiotherapy is a critical component of treatment for the majority of women with breast cancer, particularly those who receive breast conserving surgery. Although medically beneficial, radiotherapy can take a physical and psychological toll on patients. However, little is known about the specific thoughts and feelings experienced by women undergoing breast cancer radiotherapy. Therefore, the study aim was to use qualitative research methods to de…
Understanding why gay men seek HIV‐seroconcordant partners: Intimacy and risk reduction motivations
Our goal was to situate the interest of some gay men in having HIV-seroconcordant partners within the psychosocial context of concurrent motivations for intimacy and sexual risk reduction. Data were obtained from semi-structured qualitative interviews with a racially/ethnically diverse sample of 32 gay men (16 HIV-positive and 16 HIV-negative) living in New York City who sought HIV-seroconcordant partners. Thematic analysis indicated that serocon…
Measuring identity multiplicity and intersectionality: Hierarchical Classes Analysis (Hiclas) of sexual, racial, and gender identities
We propose an innovative approach for measuring identity multiplicity and intersectionality—Hierarchical Classes Analysis (HICLAS) of an Assessment of Multiple Identities. This method allows researchers to assess characteristics of individual identities and model implicit interrelationships between multiple identities held by an individual. We found support for the validity of this approach through analysis of sexual, racial, and gender identitie…
Making room for words: People who stutter on the Internet
We examined one month of listserv postings written by individuals who stutter and asked in what ways does the Internet provide a forum for collectivity, advocacy and (re)constructing selves among people who stutter; and in what ways do people who stutter contend with disability and stigma through Internet discourse. We used biographical, discursive and thematic strategies to interpret the threads of conversation dealing specifically with the self…
Painting lessons
Religion and Masculinity in Latino Gay Lives
Gay and Lesbian Christians: Homosexual and Religious Identity Integration in the Members and Participants of a Gay-Positive Church
In this study we explore individual 's experiences of identity integration between their sexual orientation and religious beliefs. Using both qualitative and quantitative research methods, we examined identity integration in forty members and participants of the Metropolitan Community Church of New York (MCC/NY), a gay-positive church located in Mid-town Manhattan. The survey and interview data collected showed that: (1)a majority of the research…
Qualitative Approaches to the Study of Thriving: What Can Be Learned
Using the data from two ongoing studies of resilience and thriving, one of gay men growing up in heterosexist environments, the other of women living with AIDS, we review how qualitative approaches have enabled researchers to grapple with conceptual, methodological, and ethical dilemmas related to the study of resilience and thriving. We discuss the implications our values as researchers have on determining who is thriving; the powerful social, c…
Heterosexual Bias in the Identity Self-Portraits of Gay Men, Lesbians, and Bisexuals
This study examined identity processes of gay men, lesbians, and bisexuals. Self-esteem scores, perceived stigma scores, and identity structures were obtained for 19 gay, bisexual, and lesbian participants. It was predicted that participants with heterosexually biased roles in superordinate positions in their identity structures would describe themselves more negatively and would have lower self-esteem. Additionally, those with higher perceived s…
Clarification of sampling in some early hardiness articles
Gay and Lesbian Christians: Homosexual and Religious Identity Integration in the Members and Participants of a Gay-Positive Church
In this study we explore individual 's experiences of identity integration between their sexual orientation and religious beliefs. Using both qualitative and quantitative research methods, we examined identity integration in forty members and participants of the Metropolitan Community Church of New York (MCC/NY), a gay-positive church located in Mid-town Manhattan. The survey and interview data collected showed that: (1)a majority of the research…
We’d Be Free: Narratives of Life Without Homophobia, Racism, or Sexism
Measuring identity multiplicity and intersectionality: Hierarchical Classes Analysis (Hiclas) of sexual, racial, and gender identities
We propose an innovative approach for measuring identity multiplicity and intersectionality—Hierarchical Classes Analysis (HICLAS) of an Assessment of Multiple Identities. This method allows researchers to assess characteristics of individual identities and model implicit interrelationships between multiple identities held by an individual. We found support for the validity of this approach through analysis of sexual, racial, and gender identitie…
A Search for Meaning: Recognizing the Potential of Narrative Research in Social Policy-Making Efforts
Heterosexual Bias in the Identity Self-Portraits of Gay Men, Lesbians, and Bisexuals
This study examined identity processes of gay men, lesbians, and bisexuals. Self-esteem scores, perceived stigma scores, and identity structures were obtained for 19 gay, bisexual, and lesbian participants. It was predicted that participants with heterosexually biased roles in superordinate positions in their identity structures would describe themselves more negatively and would have lower self-esteem. Additionally, those with higher perceived s…
Breast Cancer Patients' Experience of External-Beam Radiotherapy
Radiotherapy is a critical component of treatment for the majority of women with breast cancer, particularly those who receive breast conserving surgery. Although medically beneficial, radiotherapy can take a physical and psychological toll on patients. However, little is known about the specific thoughts and feelings experienced by women undergoing breast cancer radiotherapy. Therefore, the study aim was to use qualitative research methods to de…
Making room for words: People who stutter on the Internet
We examined one month of listserv postings written by individuals who stutter and asked in what ways does the Internet provide a forum for collectivity, advocacy and (re)constructing selves among people who stutter; and in what ways do people who stutter contend with disability and stigma through Internet discourse. We used biographical, discursive and thematic strategies to interpret the threads of conversation dealing specifically with the self…
Clarification of sampling in some early hardiness articles
Clarification of sampling in some early hardiness articles
Heterosexual Bias in the Identity Self-Portraits of Gay Men, Lesbians, and Bisexuals
This study examined identity processes of gay men, lesbians, and bisexuals. Self-esteem scores, perceived stigma scores, and identity structures were obtained for 19 gay, bisexual, and lesbian participants. It was predicted that participants with heterosexually biased roles in superordinate positions in their identity structures would describe themselves more negatively and would have lower self-esteem. Additionally, those with higher perceived s…
Qualitative Approaches to the Study of Thriving: What Can Be Learned
Using the data from two ongoing studies of resilience and thriving, one of gay men growing up in heterosexist environments, the other of women living with AIDS, we review how qualitative approaches have enabled researchers to grapple with conceptual, methodological, and ethical dilemmas related to the study of resilience and thriving. We discuss the implications our values as researchers have on determining who is thriving; the powerful social, c…
Religion and Masculinity in Latino Gay Lives
Gay and Lesbian Christians: Homosexual and Religious Identity Integration in the Members and Participants of a Gay-Positive Church
In this study we explore individual 's experiences of identity integration between their sexual orientation and religious beliefs. Using both qualitative and quantitative research methods, we examined identity integration in forty members and participants of the Metropolitan Community Church of New York (MCC/NY), a gay-positive church located in Mid-town Manhattan. The survey and interview data collected showed that: (1)a majority of the research…
Painting lessons
Making room for words: People who stutter on the Internet
We examined one month of listserv postings written by individuals who stutter and asked in what ways does the Internet provide a forum for collectivity, advocacy and (re)constructing selves among people who stutter; and in what ways do people who stutter contend with disability and stigma through Internet discourse. We used biographical, discursive and thematic strategies to interpret the threads of conversation dealing specifically with the self…
Measuring identity multiplicity and intersectionality: Hierarchical Classes Analysis (Hiclas) of sexual, racial, and gender identities
We propose an innovative approach for measuring identity multiplicity and intersectionality—Hierarchical Classes Analysis (HICLAS) of an Assessment of Multiple Identities. This method allows researchers to assess characteristics of individual identities and model implicit interrelationships between multiple identities held by an individual. We found support for the validity of this approach through analysis of sexual, racial, and gender identitie…
Understanding why gay men seek HIV‐seroconcordant partners: Intimacy and risk reduction motivations
Our goal was to situate the interest of some gay men in having HIV-seroconcordant partners within the psychosocial context of concurrent motivations for intimacy and sexual risk reduction. Data were obtained from semi-structured qualitative interviews with a racially/ethnically diverse sample of 32 gay men (16 HIV-positive and 16 HIV-negative) living in New York City who sought HIV-seroconcordant partners. Thematic analysis indicated that serocon…
Beyond Single Identity & Pathology: Revealing Coherent Multiple Selves and Transformative Activism in the Narratives of Two Transgender Women
This paper uses a conceptual framework based in critical personality psychology and a narrative strategy of inquiry to understand how two transgender women, whose lives and identities are depicted by sociological and clinical literatures as unidimensional and pathological, construct a set of multiple, coherent, and transformative selves. Through their unique approaches to questions posed in McAdams' (1995b) Life Story Interview, these women depic…
A Qualitative Approach to the Intersection of Sexual, Ethnic, and Gender Identities
In this paper we report on a new qualitative instrument designed to study the intersection of identities related to sexuality and race/ethnicity, and how people who hold those identities interact with social contexts. Researchers often resort to using separate measures to assess race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, and other target identities. But this approach can miss elements of a self-system that stem from the intersection of identities, the i…
Breast Cancer Patients' Experience of External-Beam Radiotherapy
Radiotherapy is a critical component of treatment for the majority of women with breast cancer, particularly those who receive breast conserving surgery. Although medically beneficial, radiotherapy can take a physical and psychological toll on patients. However, little is known about the specific thoughts and feelings experienced by women undergoing breast cancer radiotherapy. Therefore, the study aim was to use qualitative research methods to de…
A Search for Meaning: Recognizing the Potential of Narrative Research in Social Policy-Making Efforts
We’d Be Free: Narratives of Life Without Homophobia, Racism, or Sexism
What Ricoeur’s hermeneutics reveal about self and identity and aesthetic experience
By analyzing eminent artists’ depictions of their experiences as taken from too-long-neglected interviews with Sigmund Koch and juxtaposing these with Ricoeur’s regressive and progressive hermeneutics and contemporary concerns in narrative psychology, the authors open new avenues of inquiry into self, identity, and art. Using interviews with Toni Morrison and Arthur Miller, they demonstrate how the creative process involves a concurrent interroga…
Symposium on the life and work of Ignacio Martín-Baró: Introduction and reflections
Psychology (14 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Human sexuality (5 works) · Qualitative research (5 works) · Sexual orientation (5 works)