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Demographic and sociocultural predictors of attitudes toward lesbians and gay men among heterosexual college students in Taiwan

Posted on:2010-08-16Degree:Ph.DType:Dissertation
University:New York UniversityCandidate:Hsu, Ming-Hui DFull Text:PDF
GTID:1447390002986056Subject:Psychology
Abstract/Summary:
From a sociocultural perspective, negative attitudes toward lesbians and gay men in Taiwan can be understood as a result of the conflict between traditional Chinese cultural values and modern/western cultural values. This study examined demographic (i.e., gender, parents' education, family social class, class discussion, interpersonal contact) and sociocultural predictors (i.e., authoritarian and reciprocal filial piety, sexual attitudes toward self and others) of general and relationship-based (familial and non-familial) negative attitudes toward lesbians and gay men among heterosexual college students in Taiwan.;Participants in this survey study were single heterosexual college students (age 18-25, ethnic Chinese) from two universities in northern Taiwan. The final dataset consists of two geographically separate sub-samples: The Taoyuan sample (76 male, 63 female, mean age = 20.27 years old) and the Taipei sample (42 male, 42 female, mean age = 19.87 years old). The survey was written in traditional Chinese. Back-translation was used for the translation of measures originally in English.
Keywords/Search Tags:Attitudes toward lesbians, Lesbians and gay men, Heterosexual college students, Sociocultural, Taiwan
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