Role Models as a Resilience Strategy for Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming Individuals.

Presenter Information

Nimotallahi Quadri, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Location

CSU Ballroom

Start Date

2-4-2019 2:00 PM

End Date

2-4-2019 3:30 PM

Student's Major

Psychology

Student's College

Social and Behavioral Sciences

Mentor's Name

Jeffrey Brown

Mentor's Department

Psychology

Mentor's College

Social and Behavioral Sciences

Description

Transgender and gender non-conforming individuals are at a high risk of suffering from social and health difficulties due to experience of discrimination. Research has shown that having role models has helped to develop resilience towards stigma experienced by this community, in order to increase positive outcomes. The goal of this research is to find how effective having role model as a method of resilience is, as well as its correlation to positive life outcomes. A vital step will be to ascertain the effect of gender matched role model versus non gender matched role model. An online questionnaire based will be conducted to assess positive outcomes of role models, both gender-matched and non-gender matched, as a resilience strategy. The hypothesis of this study is that having a gender role-matched will correlate to positive social and psychological outcomes.