Attitudes towards gay men and lesbian women: instrumentation issues.
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the variety of instruments used to assess attitudes toward gay males and lesbian women. A total of 45 studies were analyzed that used homophobia instruments (N = 10), cognitive assessments (N = 11), affective instruments (N = 7), and mixed cognitive and affective instruments (N = 17) to assess attitudes toward homosexuality. Types of instruments used, number of subjects, reliability and validity estimates, major findings, and limitations were examined.
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College of Nursing, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque 87131-1061.
D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D005260:Female; D006716:Homosexuality / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010555:Personality Inventory / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D010698:Phobic Disorders / Q000523:psychology; D011287:Prejudice; D011594:Psychometrics