An Empirical Study On The Lesbian Stereotypes Of College Students

With the development of affirmative action,the social environment is more and more tolerant,gay groups gradually get out of the closet,researchers pay more attention to the minority group.Although there are a lot of research on the gay community,but most of the research is aimed at gay men,hidden lesbian group is almost a research outline.From the perspective of college students,this study used questionnaire survey method and implicit association test to measure the lesbian stereotype of the college students.The subjects of college students not only contains heterosexual students but also a certain number of lesbian students.Research drew the following conclusions: 1,the explicit college students lesbian stereotypes exist objectively,and the university student to the lesbian stereotypes are negative;2 female college students' explicit evaluation of lesbian is more positive than male college students;Students who had contact with lesbians show more positive attitude to lesbian;Lesbian,gay,bisexual groups' explicit evaluation of lesbians is more positive;3,implicit college students lesbian stereotype exists objectively,and in general the university students' implicit lesbian stereotype is negative,implicit stereotype of heterosexual women is more positive;4,female college students' implicit stereotype of lesbian is more positive than male college students';Lesbians women than heterosexual women hold a more positive stereotypes.5,students' explicit lesbian stereotype and implicit lesbian stereotype exists significant positive correlation.6,lesbian stereotype exists inter-out group effect.At the end of this study,we discuss the attribution of the results and put forward some intervention hypothesis.