A comparison of African American and White college students' affective and attitudinal reactions to lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals: An exploratory study

    Authors

    C. Negy;R. Eisenman

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    Abbreviated Journal Title

    J. Sex Res.

    Keywords

    HETEROSEXUALS ATTITUDES; NATIONAL SURVEY; UNITED-STATES; HOMOPHOBIA; MEN; BLACK; AIDS; HOMOSEXUALITY; PREVENTION; SEXUALITY; Psychology, Clinical; Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary

    Abstract

    African American (n = 70) university students were compared with White students (n = 140) on their affective (homophobia) and attitudinal (homonegativity) reactions to lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals. The results initially suggested that African Americans had modestly higher homophobia and homonegativity scores than Whites. However, those ethnic differences vanished after controlling for frequency of church attendance, religious commitment, and socioeconomic status. For both ethnic groups, gender and religiosity variables significantly predicted homophobia and homonegativity. Men in both ethnic groups had significantly higher homophobia and homonegativity scores than their female counterparts. Lastly, additional regression analyses revealed that one aspect of African American culture-family practices-significantly predicted homophobia, but not homonegativity, above the predictive ability of religiosity Implications of the results are discussed.

    Journal Title

    Journal of Sex Research

    Volume

    42

    Issue/Number

    4

    Publication Date

    1-1-2005

    Document Type

    Article

    Language

    English

    First Page

    291

    Last Page

    298

    WOS Identifier

    WOS:000233518100002

    ISSN

    0022-4499

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