The influences of sexualization on the experiences of immigrant adolescent girls
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Abstract
The sexualization of girls and women in North America has become an increasing concern for the general public over the past several decades, a phenomenon which has led to damaging physical, cognitive, and psychological consequences (e.g., Zurbriggen, Collins, Lamb, Roberts, Tolman, Ward, & Blake, 2007; 2010). Although scholars have extensively explored the impact of sexualization on girls and women in general, little is known about how immigrant adolescent girls in particular experience, and are influenced by, sexualization. Thus, this qualitative study explored the meaning that young immigrant women made of their lived experiences with sexualization during their adolescence. Participants were 12 women ages 20 to 25, who immigrated to Canada between the ages of 9 and 12, and who were influenced by, or experienced, sexualization throughout adolescence. A feminist social constructionist epistemology and a phenomenological methodology were employed. Semi-structured interviews completed with the participants were transcribed, and subsequently analyzed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis. The results illustrated that immigrant adolescent girls' experiences were influenced both directly and indirectly through sociocultural and interpersonal means, thereby shaping their attitudes around dating and sex and negatively influencing their mental health and well-being, both in adolescence and young adulthood. Discourses emerged from participants' accounts, which suggested that the sexualization of immigrant adolescent girls is perpetuated by narrow social expectations for the gendered appearance and behaviour of females. Implications for research, as well as clinical practice for school psychologists, are presented.Keywords: sexualization; immigrant; adolescence; girls
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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