Gender as moderator of the relationship between sexual prejudice and religiosity

• Main Authors: De Erquiaga, Yosu Andoni S., Initorio, Izareena Mae B., Silayan, Michaella Jhoanna Victoria E.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2007
• Subjects: Homosexuality > Religious aspects > Catholic Church; Catholic gays > Philippines; Religiousness > Philippines; Homosexuality > Philippines; Psychology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/7948
• Institution: De La Salle University

This study seeks to determine if there is a significant relationship and a significant difference between Catholicism and their views on homosexuality as moderated by gender. Two hundred Catholic college university students (100 males and 100 females) in Metro Manila were asked to answer a modified Attitudes Toward Lesbians and Gay Men questionnaire with a 9-point scale, which measured their sexual prejudice toward homosexuality. They also answered a religiosity scale that consists of four constructs, namely Daily Spiritual Experiences Scale, Beliefs Scale, Private Religious Practices Scale, and Organizational Religiousness Scale, which measured the respondents' religiosity. Results indicate that there is a significant negative correlation between religiosity and sexual prejudice. Results also show that there are no significant differences between the sexual prejudice of people with different levels of religiosity. In addition, attitudes towards homosexuals were not found to be significantly different between males and females. Lastly, the analysis of variance indicated that while gender does not predict whether prejudicial attitudes lean towards the positive or negative extremity of sexual prejudice towards gays and lesbians, results however, may vary depending upon one's gender.