Date of Award
8-3-2007
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Sociology
First Advisor
Dr. Dawn Baunach - Chair
Second Advisor
Dr. Toshimasa Kii
Third Advisor
Dr. Elisabeth Burgess
Abstract
This thesis examined the prejudiced attitudes toward homosexuals among university students in Japan, and the relationships of these attitudes with the students' demographic information, contact experiences with homosexuals, attitudes toward men's and women's roles, and living experience in foreign countries. In addition, this thesis compared Japanese and American university students' prejudice toward homosexuals. Survey data were collected from 166 university students in Japan, which is then compared to data on 956 university students in the United States (Baunach and Burgess 2002). The regression results demonstrated that Japanese respondents who had contact with homosexuals and who had relatively egalitarian gender role attitudes were less prejudiced than those who had no contact and who had relatively traditional gender role attitudes. American students expressed more prejudiced attitudes toward homosexuals than Japanese students. Even after controlling for gender, parents' education, gender role attitudes, and contact experiences, American students were more prejudiced than Japanese students.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/1062356
Recommended Citation
Ito, Daisuke, "College Students' Prejudiced Attitudes toward Homosexuals: A Comparative Analysis in Japan and the United States." Thesis, Georgia State University, 2007.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/1062356