Homosexist attitude change as a function of jungian personality type

Abstract

This study tested two hypotheses: that college human sexuality courses were effective in reducing negative attitudes toward homosexuals, but not racism, and that homosexist attitudes of Sensing/Judging, Keirsey/Jungian personality types would be more negative than Intuition/Perception types. Using a pretest-posttest mixed design, 91 students in a human sexuality course formed the experimental group, while 64 students from two personality courses served as controls. Analysis of covariance suggested that the human sexuality course was effective in reducing negative attitudes towards homosexuals. Moreover, since racism scores were not affected, the intervention was content-specific. However, there was little support for the second hypothesis in that Keirsey/Jungian personality types were not effective in discriminating pretest or posttest levels of homosexism. Discussion focuses on some plausible mechanisms influencing this attitude change as well as suggestions for future research.

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Graduation Date

1989

Semester

Spring

Advisor

Wang, Alvin Y.

Degree

Master of Science (M.S.)

College

College of Arts and Sciences

Department

Psychology

Format

Print

Pages

78 p.

Language

English

Length of Campus-only Access

None

Access Status

Masters Thesis (Open Access)

Identifier

DP0026946

Subjects

Arts and Sciences -- Dissertations, Academic; Dissertations, Academic -- Arts and Sciences

Accessibility Status

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