著者

桐原 奈津 坂西 友秀

出版者

埼玉大学教育学部

雑誌

埼玉大学紀要 〔教育学部〕 教育科学 (ISSN:03879321)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.52, no.1, pp.55-80, 2003

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Sixty-eight female and 57 male undergraduate students were asked to fill in a questionnaire about their attitudes and responses toward sexual minorities (homosexual men, lesbians, and bisexuals). In Japan, many people have gender stereotypes. Gender stereotypes make students expect that both men and women will behave in line with their sexual roles. The attitudes and responses of the participants in this study toward the behavior of the minorities tend to be negative because of the large discrepancy between the expected behaviors patterns for sexual minorities and the actual patterns. We predicted that male and female students would attribute more negative traits such as indecisive, strange, and slender to the sexual minorities, and have negative reactions to them when they come out. The results were as follows: In general, male students have stronger tendencies to stress gender than female students, and were more negative to sexual minorities coming out. Participants tended not to recognize legal marriages between sexual minorities. The students with strong traditional orientations for male-centered human relations had more conservative attitudes toward the minorities than the students with weak traditional orientations. The results were discussed from the viewpoint of gender stereotypes and prejudice against minorities.