Students' Perception of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Trangender (LGBT)
- Keywords
- Perception, LGBT
- Abstract
One of the factors that causes students to fall down to LGBT activities if they accept LGBT in their environment. The students should have a perception which does not accept LGBT in their environment in order that they do not fall down to LGBT activities. In fact, there are many students consider LGBT as activities which is not deviate and accept the mentioned LGBT existence. This article is aiming at describing: (1) the students’ cognition about LGBT, and (2) the students’ affection towards the LGBT phenomenon. This descriptive study uses a quantitative approach and the is the students of Universitas Negeri Padang. There are 117 students as the research sample by using the Taro Yamane’s formula and then continued by using the Simple Random Sampling technique. The instrument used was the scale of students’ perceptions of LGBT with the Likert models and the data were analyzed by using percentage techniques. The results of the study shows that the perceptions of students’ perception on cognitive aspects is in the category of not accepting fully, namely, 77.78%, while the affective aspects are in the high acceptence category, it is as much as 69.2%, in other words, the students consider LGBT as a deviant behavior. Based on the results of this study it can be said that counselors can improve the students’ cognition and affection in order not accept LGBT. This is done as a preventive effort in order the students consider LGBT as a deviant behavior constantly.
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- © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - S. Neviyarni AU - Netrawati AU - Riska Ahmad AU - Wiwi Delfita PY - 2019/12 DA - 2019/12 TI - Students' Perception of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Trangender (LGBT) BT - Proceedings of the International Conference on Education Technology (ICoET 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 177 EP - 182 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/125925077 ID - Neviyarni2019/12 ER -