DISTANȚA SOCIALĂ FAȚĂ DE PERSOANELE LGBT: STUDIU EXPLORATORIU ÎN RÂNDUL STUDENȚILOR DIN ROMÂNIA ȘI REPUBLICA MOLDOVA
Keywords:
LGBT people, social distance, university students, Romania, Republic of Moldova.Abstract
This paper summarizes the results of an exploratory study that focuses on social distance toward LGBT people compared to other minority groups. One hundred and twenty university students from Romania and 80 university students from the Republic of Moldova completed a tool inspired by the Social Distance Scale (E. S. Bogardus), respectively a scale (14 items) for measuring stereotypes and prejudices about people with homosexual orientation. Compared to participants from Romania, those from the Republic of Moldova showed a significantly greater social distance toward homosexual, bisexual or transsexual people. For both Romania and the Republic of Moldova, the participants showed a greater social distance toward people with homosexual orientation than toward people with another racial or ethnic origin. In contrast, in both countries, the social distance toward people with homosexual orientation was smaller than the social distance from drug users and alcoholics. For Romania, contact or friendship with a lesbian/gay person and the orientation toward liberal ideology had significant effects on the social distance toward LGBT people. Also, there were some differences between the participants from the two countries in terms of the frequency of stereotypes and prejudices about people with homosexual orientation
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