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1、Presenters: M.B.Zhang, Y.Liu, S.Zhang, Y.J.DingSoutheast University, NanjingDec. 2013A Research on the Explicit and Implicit Attitudes of SEU Students toward HomosexualsContentsBackground Objectives MethodResults Conclusions 1. BackgroundDifferent attitude toward homosexuals in human historyTwo cons

2、tituents of the attitudes: Explicit attitude VS Implicit attitude Different attitudes toward homosexuals in human history Modern societyMiddle AgesAncient GreeceAdvocatedDiscriminatedAccepted?Two constituents of the attitudes: Explicit attitude VS Implicit attitude 2. Objectives To have a deep under

3、standing of SEU students attitudes toward homosexuals. To help homosexuals reduce the psychological stress.3. MethodQuestionnaire: College Students Explicit Attitudes toward Homosexuals Contents(18 items) Dimensions: emotion, cognition and behavior. Scoring Consequent scoring: 11 items Reverse scori

4、ng: 7 items Distribution range: 18 to 108. How to measure explicit attitude?Score interpretationExtremely exclusive ExclusiveNeutral Completely acceptable91-10873-9055-7237-5418-36 AcceptableIAT(implicit association test)The implicit association test (IAT) is a method specifically designed to detect

5、 the reaction time when people connect attributive words to a certain object. StepsDesignationTimeFunctionPress FPress J1attributive words discrimination20practicepositive wordsnegative words2notional pictures discrimination10practicehomosexual picturesheterosexual pictures3joint mission 130key step

6、positive words + heterosexual picturesnegative words+ homosexual pictures4reversed notional pictures discrimination10practiceheterosexual pictureshomosexual pictures5joint mission 230key steppositive words or homosexual picturesnegative words or heterosexual pictures The step of IAT Table 1Record th

7、e reaction timeStep 3 (joint mission 1) : compatible responseStep 5 (joint mission 2) : incompatible responseIAT effect=Timestep5 -Timestep3Table 2 The result of SEU students explicit attitudes toward homosexualsTotal Emotion Cognitive BehaviorM 65.07 21.10 22.38 21.59SD 13.62 4.91 4.96 5.52Result o

8、f explicit test4. ResultsTable 3 The frequency distribution of the attitudes toward homosexuals N 1 26 64 27 7 % 0.8 20.8 51.2 21.6 5.6CompletelyacceptableAcceptable Neutral ExclusiveExtremelyexclusiveTable 4 The comparison of college students explicit attitudes toward homosexualsMale (n=54) Female

9、(n=71) M SD M SD tToalEmotionCognitiveBehaviorNote:t68.87 11.05 62.18 14.72 2.796 * 22.21 3.82 20.25 5.47 2.365 *23.48 4.46 21.54 5.18 2.200 *23.18 4.70 20.39 5.83 2.877 * P0.05, *P0.01 People are quite open to homosexuals; Female college students have more tolerant attitudes toward homosexuals!Anal

10、ysis of explicit test resultsTable 5 The result of implicit association testTime of compatible responseTime of incompatible responseIAT effectmale（n=54）female（n=71）MSDMSDt768.07149.891153.20246.16385.14241.66734.39139.511124.97210.96390.58210.17-0.638Results of implicit test Compared to explicit test, people showed less tolerance in implicit test; No gender difference was detected, both male and female students had negative implicit attitudes toward homosexuals.Analysis of implicit test results5. Conclusions Peoples explict attitude and implicit attitude