Implicit and explicit attitudes toward gay men and lesbian women among heterosexual undergraduate and graduate psychology and nursing students
ObjectivesTo examine implicit and explicit attitudes toward gay men and lesbian women among heterosexual undergraduate and graduate psychology and nursing students.MethodsImplicit attitudes were measured via the Implicit Association Test and explicit attitudes via the Attitudes Toward Lesbian Women...
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| description | ObjectivesTo examine implicit and explicit attitudes toward gay men and lesbian women among heterosexual undergraduate and graduate psychology and nursing students.MethodsImplicit attitudes were measured via the Implicit Association Test and explicit attitudes via the Attitudes Toward Lesbian Women and Gay questionnaire.Main resultsAll groups held negative implicit attitudes toward gay men and lesbian women. Among undergraduates, nursing students reported holding more negative explicit attitudes toward gay men and lesbian women than psychology students.ConclusionThe curricula in both nursing and psychology studies need to address the medical and paramedical needs and issues of sexual minorities. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-321c44baaf5a4811ab755fa44320c6d72022-12-22T01:39:09ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782022-07-011310.3389/fpsyg.2022.921313921313Implicit and explicit attitudes toward gay men and lesbian women among heterosexual undergraduate and graduate psychology and nursing studentsOz Hamtzani0Yaniv Mama1Ayala Blau2Talma Kushnir3Talma Kushnir4Department of Psychology, Ariel University, Ariel, IsraelDepartment of Psychology, Ariel University, Ariel, IsraelDepartment of Nursing, Ariel University, Ariel, IsraelDepartment of Psychology, Ariel University, Ariel, IsraelAdelson School of Medicine, Ariel University, Ariel, IsraelObjectivesTo examine implicit and explicit attitudes toward gay men and lesbian women among heterosexual undergraduate and graduate psychology and nursing students.MethodsImplicit attitudes were measured via the Implicit Association Test and explicit attitudes via the Attitudes Toward Lesbian Women and Gay questionnaire.Main resultsAll groups held negative implicit attitudes toward gay men and lesbian women. Among undergraduates, nursing students reported holding more negative explicit attitudes toward gay men and lesbian women than psychology students.ConclusionThe curricula in both nursing and psychology studies need to address the medical and paramedical needs and issues of sexual minorities.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.921313/fullattitudessexual orientationpsychologynursingstudents |
| spellingShingle | Oz Hamtzani Yaniv Mama Ayala Blau Talma Kushnir Talma Kushnir Implicit and explicit attitudes toward gay men and lesbian women among heterosexual undergraduate and graduate psychology and nursing students Frontiers in Psychology attitudes sexual orientation psychology nursing students |
| title | Implicit and explicit attitudes toward gay men and lesbian women among heterosexual undergraduate and graduate psychology and nursing students |
| title_full | Implicit and explicit attitudes toward gay men and lesbian women among heterosexual undergraduate and graduate psychology and nursing students |
| title_fullStr | Implicit and explicit attitudes toward gay men and lesbian women among heterosexual undergraduate and graduate psychology and nursing students |
| title_full_unstemmed | Implicit and explicit attitudes toward gay men and lesbian women among heterosexual undergraduate and graduate psychology and nursing students |
| title_short | Implicit and explicit attitudes toward gay men and lesbian women among heterosexual undergraduate and graduate psychology and nursing students |
| title_sort | implicit and explicit attitudes toward gay men and lesbian women among heterosexual undergraduate and graduate psychology and nursing students |
| topic | attitudes sexual orientation psychology nursing students |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.921313/full |
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