The relationships between homophobic attitudes and religiosity among Turkish physical education teacher majors

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“…The demographic characteristics most often studied in relation to attitudes to homosexuals include gender, age, and education. Studies from different countries across Europe, North America, and Latin America indicate that negative attitudes to homosexuals are more often found in males, rather than females (Cannon, 2005;Haider-Markel & Joslyn, 2008;Herek & McLemore, 2013;Hooghe & Meeusen, 2012;Negy & Eisenman, 2005;Poteat & Anderson, 2012;Sarac, 2012;Steffens & Wagner, 2004;West & Cowell, 2014), in respondents advanced in age, rather than younger ones (Baiocco, Nardelli, Pezzuti, & Lingiardi, 2013;Herek & Gonzales-Rivera, 2006;Steffens & Wagner, 2004), and in individuals with lower levels of education (Cannon, 2005;Haider-Markel & Joslyn, 2008;West & Cowell, 2015). Out of these three variables, gender emerges as the most universal predictor of negative attitudes to homosexuals across countries.…”

“…Religiosity is another universal predictor of prejudice. Strongly negative attitudes to homosexuals are characteristic of individuals with high levels of religious involvement, religious funda-mentalism, and religious orthodoxy (Altemeyer, 2003;Cannon, 2005;Grey et al, 2013;Haider-Markel & Joslyn, 2008;Herek, 2000Herek, , 2009Herek & Gonzales-Rivera, 2006;Herek & McLemore, 2013;Horvath & Ryan, 2003;James et al, 2011;Jonathan, 2008;Kirby & Michaelson, 2015;Leak & Finken, 2011;Maney & Cain, 1997;Miller & Chamberlain, 2013;Negy & Eisenman, 2005;Papadaki, Plotnikof, & Papadaki, 2013;Poteat & Mereish, 2012;Rowatt et al, 2006;Rowatt et al, 2009;Sanabria, 2012;Sarac, 2012;Whitley, 2009;Wilkinson, 2004;Wood & Bartkowski, 2004). These associations are found across different confessions (different branches of Christianity, Islam, Buddhism).…”

Religion and Sport Studies in Turkey: An Analysis of the Online Sources in Turkish

“…Moreover, studies which were not released online (for example İmamoğlu et al 1999, 2000) or not written in Turkish neither as an abstract nor as full text (Koca and Hacısoftaoğlu 2011) and not found via search in Turkish keywords (Saraç 2012) were not included in the tables. However, these types of studies still can be found in this study and in the reference list at the end of this article.…”

Sporcu kimliği ve homofobi ilişkisinin sporcu üniversite öğrencisi adayları örnekleminde incelenmesi

“…Beden eğitimi ve spor alanında farklı cinsel yöne-limi olan bireylere yönelik tutum ve bu tutumu etkileyen değişkenlere yönelik yapılan ulusal araştırma sayısı kısıtlıdır (Saraç, 2012a;2012b). Konuya yönelik araştırmalar yapılarak olası olumsuz tutum ve davranışların ortadan kaldırıl-masına yönelik önlemlerin alınması gerekliliğin-den yola çıkılarak bu araştırmada, beden eğitimi ve spor alanında yükseköğrenim görmek üzere özel yetenek sınavına başvuran kadın ve erkek sporcuların sporcu kimlikleri ile lezbiyen ve geylere yönelik tutumlarını belirleyerek bu iki değişken arasında ilişki olup olmadığını ortaya koymak amaçlanmıştır.…”