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Attitudes Toward Lesbians and Gay Men: A Factor-Analytic Study
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This paper reports a series of factor analyses of responses to attitude statements about lesbians and gay men. Using a common factor model with oblique rotation, a bipolar "Condemnation-Tolerance" factor was observed repeatedly in four separate samples of undergraduates. The factor accounts for 35-45% of the total common variance in responses, and is similar for male and female respondents and for questionnaires concerning both lesbians and gay men. A "Beliefs" factor accounts for another 5% of the total variance. It is argued that scales assessing attitudes toward lesbians and gay men should restrict their content to items loading highly on the Condemnation-Tolerance factor.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Herek, G. M.
- Venue
- Journal of Homosexuality
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 1984-12-19
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 1-2
- Pages
- 39-51
- ISSN
- 0091-8369 (ISSN-L)
- 1540-3602
- OpenAlex
- W1826805784
- Cited by
- 407
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 3.18
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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