Abstract

With growing attention to youth’s efforts to address sexual and gender diversity issues in gender-sexuality alliances (GSAs), there remains limited research on adult advisors. Do advisor characteristics predict their youth members’ advocacy? Among 58 advisors of 38 GSAs, we considered whether advisor attributes predicted greater advocacy by youth in these GSAs (n = 366) over the school year. GSAs varied in youth advocacy over the year. Youth in GSAs whose advisors reported longer years of service, devoted more time to GSA efforts each week, and employed more structure to meetings (to a point, with a curvilinear effect), reported greater relative increases in advocacy over the year (adjusting for initial advocacy and total meetings that year). Relative changes in advocacy were not associated with whether advisors received a stipend, training, or whether GSAs had co-advisors. Continued research should consider how advisors of GSAs and other social justice-oriented groups foster youth advocacy.

 抽象的

随着人们越来越关注青年在性别-性联盟（GSA）中解决性和性别多样性问题的努力，对成人顾问的研究仍然有限。顾问的特征是否可以预测青年成员的拥护程度？在 38 个 GSA 的 58 名顾问中，我们考虑了顾问属性是否预示着这些 GSA ( n = 366) 中的年轻人在学年中会有更大的倡导。一年来，GSA 在青年倡导方面有所不同。 GSA 中的青年人报告称，他们的顾问服务年限更长，每周为 GSA 工作投入更多时间，并采用更多的会议结构（在一定程度上，具有曲线效应），他们报告称，这一年中倡导活动的相对增长幅度更大（根据初始数据进行调整）当年的宣传和会议总数）。倡导的相对变化与顾问是否获得津贴、培训或 GSA 是否有联合顾问无关。持续的研究应考虑 GSA 和其他以社会正义为导向的团体的顾问如何促进青年倡导。