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- Title
Beyond Politics: Opposition to Marriage Equality Predicts Negative Reactions Toward LGBT Individuals.
- Authors
Hutchings, Ryan; Morgan, Elizabeth; Ratcliff, Jennifer J.
- Abstract
Past research has examined various factors that predict heterosexual individuals' attitudes toward marriage equality including sex, age, religion/religiosity, political ideology, and sexual prejudice (Herek, 2011). To our knowledge, no studies have examined the possibility that such attitudes predict consequential behaviors directed at LGBT individuals. Thus, the current work examined the role of opposition to marriage equality in predicting negative behavioral intentions and reactions to antigay hate crimes. Given the importance of sex in sexual prejudice and opposition to marriage equality (Herek, 2000a), these relationships were examined after including participant sex in the model. Fifty-nine heterosexual students participated in the present study. Separate hierarchical regressions revealed that opposition to marriage equality significantly predicted greater negative behavioral intentions (β = .46, p< .001), reduced recognition of a hate crime (β = -.30, p < .05), and marginally increased perpetrator justification (β = -.23, p = .09) above and beyond the influence of participant sex. Moreover, a two-way interaction indicated that opposition to marriage equality predicted negative behavioral intentions to a greater degree for men than women (β = -.55, p < .05). These results suggested that marriage equality attitudes are not merely political, but rather, predict influential behavioral intentions and reactions toward LGBT individuals.
- Subjects
PUBLIC opinion on same-sex marriage; PREJUDICES; SOCIAL attitudes; VIOLENCE against LGBTQ+ people; EQUALITY
- Publication
Psi Chi Journal of Psychological Research, 2015, Vol 20, Issue 4, p197
- ISSN
2164-8204
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.24839/2164-8204.JN20.4.197