Children’s Attitudes Towards Homosexuality in China

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10.2991/assehr.k.220401.219How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Children; attitudes; homosexual individual; homosexual family; male; female

Abstract

The extant research has shown that high school students and universities students hold neutral attitudes toward homosexual. However, how children’s attitudes toward homosexual individuals and homosexual family are scarcely known by public. The aim of the study is to make up the gaps by surveying children’s attitudes to these two attitudinal subcomponents. I investigated 9- to 12- year-old children (N total=138; 76 females and 62 males) from Chengdu, Nanchang, Beijing, Jinan, Dezhou, Yantai, Foshan, Lanzhou, Jinhua, Yanchen, Yongkang, Xian, Deyang, Yibin. In this work, results revealed, there were high correlations between children’s attitudes toward homosexual individuals and homosexual family. An obvious gender differences also revealed on the result, males were more negative towards all two attitudes than females. Children who have heard homosexuality and acquainted a homosexual individual showed more positive attitudes than those who have not. With the ages growing, children tend to accept more about homosexual individual and homosexual family.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yu Xiao
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/04/08
TI  - Children’s Attitudes Towards Homosexuality in China
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities and Arts (SSHA 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1156
EP  - 1159
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220401.219
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220401.219
ID  - Xiao2022
ER  -