Attitudes Toward Homosexuality Research Articles

동성애에 관한 성경의 바람직한 태도: 창세기 19장, 사사기 19장, 레위기 18, 20장, 마태복음 19장 (마가복음 10장)과 로마서 1장 중심으로

동성애에 관한 성경의 바람직한 태도: 창세기 19장, 사사기 19장, 레위기 18, 20장, 마태복음 19장 (마가복음 10장)과 로마서 1장 중심으로

Recognition and Attitude toward Homosexuality of High School Students

Recognition and Attitude toward Homosexuality of High School Students

Need for Alloparental Care and Attitudes Toward Homosexuals in 58 Countries: Implications for the Kin Selection Hypothesis

Homosexuality is an evolutionary puzzle. Many theories attempt to explain how a trait undermining individual reproduction can be maintained, but experimental testing of their predictions remains scarce. The kin selection hypothesis (KSH) is an important theoretical framework to account for the evolution of human homosexuality, postulating that its direct cost to reproduction can be offset by inclusive fitness gains through alloparental assistance to kin. Consistent evidence in support of the KSH has only been garnered from research on Samoan fa’afafine (i.e. feminine, same-sex attracted males), whereas research in numerous industrialized societies has repeatedly failed to secure empirical support for the theory. Here, we propose an alternative test of the KSH by investigating how need for alloparental care influences women’s attitudes toward homosexuality (AtH). AtH would influence the likelihood of women receiving alloparental care from homosexual kin. We applied logistic regression analysis to a large dataset (17,295 women in 58 countries) derived from the World Values Survey. As predicted by the KSH, women who are potentially most in need of alloparental support exhibit significantly more positive attitudes toward homosexuals. For single mothers who expressed parental care concerns, each additional child mothered was associated with an increase of 1.24 in their odds of exhibiting positive attitudes toward homosexuals. Our study is the first to provide circumstantial evidence in support of the KSH on a global scale.

The Effect of High School Student’s Perception of Parental Child-Rearing Attitude on Their Attitude toward Homosexuality : The Mediating Effect of Authoritarian Personality

본 연구는 부모의 양육태도가 청소년의 동성애에 대한 태도에 관한 영향 연구가 아직 초기단계이므로 기존 연구가 매우 제한적인 상황에서, 동성애 태도에 대한 탐색적인 연구로서 부모의 양육태도와 동성애 태도에 미치는 영향에서 권위주의적 성격의 매개효과를 살펴보았다. 본 연구결과는 다음과 같다. 부모 양육태도와 동성애 태도간의 관계에서 권위주의적 성격의 매개효과를 알아보기 위해 회귀분석을 실시한 결과 어머니의 자율-통제적 양육태도 가 동성애에 미치는 관계에서 권위주의가 완전매개효과가 있음을 발견하였다. 그리고 동성 애 원인에 따른 매개효과를 알아보기 위해 회귀분석을 실시했다. 동성애의 원인을 ``후천적 이다``라고 응답한 고등학생들에게서 부모의 양육태도 중 어머니의 자율-통제적 양육태도가 동성애 태도에 미치는 영향에서 권위주의의 부분매개효과가 검증되었다. 본 연구의 결과는 부모의 적절한 양육태도와 청소년들의 권위주의적 성격을 낮춤으로써 동성애 혐오수준을 낮출 수 있다는 시사점을 제공한다.

Homonegative Attitudes and their Correlates Among Vietnamese College Students

This study investigated sex differences in homonegativity and their correlates among 197 Vietnamese college students (males = 49, females = 148, M = 20.9 years, SD = 2.9) in Ho Chi Minh City. The survey included Vietnamese-language versions of four scales measuring attitudes toward homosexuality (ATHS), traditional masculinity ideology, knowledge of homosexuality, and contact experiences with homosexuals. An exploratory factor analysis indicated a 3-factor structure for the ATHS: Homonegativity, Tolerance, and Positive Images. Male respondents reported significantly higher scores on homonegativity. Traditional masculinity ideology was positively related to females' homonegativity, but negatively correlated with tolerant attitudes of both males and females. Knowledge about homosexuality was negatively correlated with homonegativity. Media contact with homosexuals was negatively correlated with males' homonegativity, but positively correlated with both females and males' tolerant attitudes. Results suggest that future research develop a new scale to measure Vietnamese's homonegativity and that media contact as well as ample and accurate knowledge about homosexuality can alter homonegativity.

Sexual Minorities and Mental Health: The Need for a Public Health Response

SUMMARY This paper outlines the public mental health response to sexual minorities in the United States. Information from the academic literature, federal and state initiatives, and the work of the organized lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities is placed in an historical context of mental health attitudes toward homosexuality. In addition to recommendations for future directions in research and treatment, the authors present an argument for establishing a coordinated federal initiative to address some of the unique mental health needs of the LGBT community.

Macho man: Narcissism, homophobia, agency, communion, and authoritarianism--a comparative study among Israeli bodybuilders and a control group.

The present study quantitatively examined the ethnographic social‐psychological profile suggested by A. M. Klein (1993) for American bodybuilders using Israeli bodybuilders. Eighty male gym trainees and 80 men who have never trained completed the Narcissistic Personality Inventory and Bem’s Sex Role Inventory, the Attitudes Toward Homosexuality (AHS) and the Right-Wing Authoritarianism (RWA) Scales, and a demographic questionnaire. The bodybuilders showed the highest levels of narcissism and traits socially desirable for men and exhibited the highest scores on both agenetic and communal traits. Their AHS and RWA scores did not significantly differ from the other 2 groups, but their political affiliation was significantly more right wing. Cultural and methodological differences between Klein’s study and the present study as well as personality factors involved in bodybuilding are discussed. Bodybuilding is a subculture of hyperbole. In its headlong rush to accrue flesh, everything about this subculture exploits grandiosity and excess. Not only are the bodies in this world large, but also even descriptions of them are extravagan t... There is nothing new about compensating for self-perceived weaknesses. Probably most of us seek to conceal flaws or insecurities . . . Formen, it is often the use of the body, and in particular muscles, that is relied upon to compensate . . .Although masculinity is socially, not biologically, determined, use is made of certain biological conditions, in this instance the male physical form as a means of assisting in the determination of masculinity. (Klein, 1993, pp. 3‐4)

Attitudes toward homosexuality: preservation of sex morality or the double standard?

Attitudes toward homosexuality: preservation of sex morality or the double standard?