Predictive Models of Attitude toward Homosexuality in Heterosexual Men

The aims of this paper were to predict membership to a group of attitude of acceptance or ambiguity-rejection toward homosexuality, and describe the attitude levels. The Attitudes Toward Lesbians and Gay men (ATLG) scale was applied to a non-probability sample of 239 single heterosexual men. All of them were students of health sciences. 15% expressed rejection (including 4% extreme) based on the ATLG total score. Rejection toward gay men (28% including 7% extreme) was higher than toward lesbians (9% including 2.5% extreme). Not having homosexual friends and having adscription to Christian or Catholic religions were significant predictors of belonging to the group with an ambiguity-rejection attitude. It is concluded that the percentage of rejection toward homosexuality is significant. For this reason it is encouraged to implement workshops for promoting an acceptance attitude, and consider these risk variables in their design.

• Autores: Moral de la Rubia, José; Facultad de Psicología, UANL.; Valle de la O, Adrián; Departamento de Ciencias Básicas de la Escuela de Medicina y Ciencias de la Salud. Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM). Eugenio Garza Sada 2501 Sur, Col. Tecnológico C.P. 64849. Phone: [phone]. Ext. 5302. Monterrey, Nuevo León, México.
• Tipo de recurso: Article of journal
• Fecha de publicación: 2014
• Institución: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
• Repositorio: Repositorio Universidad Javeriana
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repository.javeriana.edu.co:10554/33405
• Acceso en línea: http://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/revPsycho/article/view/5973; http://hdl.handle.net/10554/33405
• Palabra clave: actitud; homofobia; religión; hombres; jóvenes.; attitude; homophobia; religion; men; youth.
• Rights: openAccess
• License: Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 4.0 Internacional