The Study of High School Students’ Attitudes toward Homosexuality

• Main Authors: Man-Chun Chen, 陳曼君
• Other Authors: Chi-Ping Deng
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/29505306510944728625

碩士 === 國立彰化師範大學 === 輔導與諮商學系所 === 98 === This study is to investigate high school students’ attitudes and cognition toward homosexuality, the differences of attitudes and cognition among these students with different backgrounds, and the factors that affect their attitudes. A multidimensional view of attitudes and cognition toward homosexuality is employed. The dimensions are from Worthington’s (2005) categorization of attitudes toward homosexuality: hate, homosexuality civil rights, internalized affirmativeness, knowledge of homosexuality, and conflict. The predictors of attitudes are background variables (gender, sexual orientation, grade, religion, with or without closed homosexual friends, and the experience of contacting the media on homosexual issues), psychological variables (openness to experience and gender role stereotypes), and cognitive variables (knowledge of homosexuality, conflict). The researcher composed the research measure according to Worthington’s definition of his five dimensions, and adaptation of Chen Yi Lin’s (2006)“The Questionnaire on Attitudes Toward Gender of Elementary School Teachers”, and translation of openness to experience measures from Goldberg’s(2010) IPIP website. The data of 268 participants are included in this research. Description statistics, one-way ANOVA, and multiple regressions are used to analyze the data. The research results show: 1. High school students only have indifferent attitudes toward homosexuality and they are lack of knowledge about homosexuality. 2. High school students’ attitudes and cognition toward homosexuality vary. They have the highest scores in civil rights and the lowest in knowledge of homosexuality. 3. Different dimensions of attitudes toward homosexuality have different predictors. 4. The variables of the background, the psychology, and the cognition can significantly predict the attitudes toward the homosexuality. The influence of gender, sexual orientation, gender role stereotypes, knowledge of homosexuality, and conflict is stably significant. 5. The effect of the background variables exists within the psychological and cognitive variables, especially within gender role stereotypes and the knowledge of homosexuality. However, there are other psychological and cognitive factors which aren’t discovered in the study in “gender” and “sexual orientation.” These findings and results hope to provide some suggestions for the education and the future research. Key words: attitudes toward homosexuality, cognition toward homosexuality, openness to experience, gender role stereotypes