Assessing predictors of homophobic attitudes in female college students in a socially conservative state
Abstract
Most of the existing literature investigating correlates of homophobic attitudes deals mostly with males. Female homophobic attitudes and their predictors have been studied far less. In order to address this disparity within the current literature, the following study investigated how religious fundamentalism, social dominance orientation, hostile sexism, and femininity related to homophobic attitudes of 186 primarily White, heterosexual, females at an Oklahoma university. The variables that had significant correlations with homophobic attitudes were hostile sexism, social dominance orientation, and religious fundamentalism. Regression analysis revealed that religious fundamentalism and social dominance orientation were significant predictors of homophobic attitudes.