Attachment Style, Openness to Experience, and Social Contact as Predictors of Attitudes Toward Homosexuality

Novice Instructional Designers’ Attitudes towards the Best Possible Self Activity and the Correlation with Personality and Subjective Well-Being

“…Furthermore, participants with higher tolerance tended to have higher affective and behavioral learning results. Even though not all sub-aspects of openness to experience were significantly related to all sub-aspects of ALI, these findings partially confirmed our hypothesis that participants with a higher score of openness to experience would have a higher score in attitudes towards BPS (Metin-Orta & Metin-Camgöz, 2020 ). More studies with larger sample sizes need to be conducted to confirm this correlation.…”

“…Openness to experience is a major dimension of personality; it highlights flexibility and reception to all experiential possibilities, which means that people with higher levels of openness to experience tend to “not only see more possibilities but also engage with them” (Christensen, 2020 , p.1) and they “are more willing to try new activities and are more open to novel and unconventional ideas” (Metin-Orta & Metin-Camgöz, 2020 , p.534). Studies confirm that openness to experience is positively correlated with attitudes towards novel and unconventional ideas (e.g., counseling, Bathje et al, 2014 ; gay men and lesbians, Metin-Orta & Metin-Camgöz, 2020 ).…”

“…Openness to experience is a major dimension of personality; it highlights flexibility and reception to all experiential possibilities, which means that people with higher levels of openness to experience tend to “not only see more possibilities but also engage with them” (Christensen, 2020 , p.1) and they “are more willing to try new activities and are more open to novel and unconventional ideas” (Metin-Orta & Metin-Camgöz, 2020 , p.534). Studies confirm that openness to experience is positively correlated with attitudes towards novel and unconventional ideas (e.g., counseling, Bathje et al, 2014 ; gay men and lesbians, Metin-Orta & Metin-Camgöz, 2020 ). Because BPS is a new activity when it is integrated into general graduate classes, we hypothesize a potential correlation between openness to experience and attitudes toward BPS, meaning that participants with greater values of openness to experience will have more positive attitudes towards BPS and will in turn gain more subjective well-being improvement from the BPS.…”

The Relationships Among Attitudes Toward Gay Men and Lesbians, System Justification, Social Contact, Political Orientation and Gender

“…Similarly, Whitley (1990) suggested that friendship with gay men and lesbians might be helpful for recognizing the similarities between, and reducing prejudice against them. Several studies have also demonstrated a positive association between social contact and positive attitudes toward homosexuals in Western countries (Anderssen, 2002;Haddock, Zanna, & Esses, 1993;Herek & Capitanio, 1996;LaMar & Kite, 1998), and in Turkey (Metin-Orta & Metin-Camgöz, 2018b;Sakallı & Uğurlu, 2001, 2002. People who had previous social interactions with a homosexual, expressed less discomfort with a homosexual than others who did not have any previous social interactions (Lance, 1987;Millham, San Miguel, & Kellogg, 1976).…”

“…Males (Çırakoğlu, 2006;Duyan & Duyan, 2005;Sakallı & Uğurlu, 2001;Oksal, 2008), people with sexist attitudes (Sakallı, 2002a), with greater social dominance orientation (Metin-Orta, 2019), and people who have low social contact with gay men (Çırakoğlu, 2006;Metin-Orta & Metin-Camgöz, 2018b;Sakallı & Uğurlu, 2001, 2002 had higher homophobia in Turkey. People with higher levels of openness to experience showed less negative attitudes toward homosexuals (Metin-Orta & Metin-Camgöz, 2018b). Further, Sakallı (2002b) demonstrated that the attributions of controllability and individual's perception about negative cultural values on gay man and lesbians predicted prejudice against them.…”