University Students’ Attitudes Toward Homophobia and Related Factors

Abstract

Objective: The aim of this study was to determine the levels of homophobic attitudes and related factors among senior students at a university in Turkey.
 
 Methods: The descriptive study sample consisted of 317 senior undergraduate students who met the inclusion criteria and accepted to participate in the study between March 20 and April 24, 2017. The study data were collected using the “Personal Information Form” to determine the socio-demographic characteristics of the students and “Hudson-Ricketts Index of Homophobia” to determine their homophobic attitudes. Descriptive statistics, the independent samples t-test (Student’s t-test) for the comparison of two groups and the one-way ANOVA test for the comparison of the means of more than two groups were used in the analysis of the data.
 
 Results: In the study, it was determined that 156 (49.2%) students had low levels homophobic attitudes and 148 (46.7%) students had high levels homophobic attitudes. In addition, it was found that 13 (4.1%) students got 87 points and had neutral level homophobic attitudes. Among the students who participated in the study. it was found that the homophobic attitude levels of the students who were women and who had individuals with different sexual orientation in their social environment were found to be lower (p

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“…The minimum number of students required for the expectation that the difference in the total score obtained from the Hudson and Ricketts Homophobia scale between male and female students at the Gaziantep University School of Medicine would be 10.78 ± 25.70 (Cohen d = 0.42); statistically significant was determined as 91 in each group (α = 0.05, 1-β = 0.80) (Yilmaz et al, 2022). Analysis was done in the Gpower 3.1 version.…”