ERIC Number: EJ1451080
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Dec
Pages: 36
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ISSN: ISSN-1381-2890
EISSN: EISSN-1573-1928
Investigating Preservice Teachers' Attitudes toward Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Students in Luxembourg
Social Psychology of Education: An International Journal, v27 n6 p3231-3266 2024
Lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) students face victimization in multiple contexts, including the educational context. Here, teachers can serve as an important resource for LGB students. However, teachers who are prejudiced against students from sexual minorities might not be able to fulfill this role. Accordingly, it is important to find out more about teachers' attitudes and their correlates, as such information can provide starting points for sensitization interventions in teacher education programs, which have the potential to improve the situation of LGB students in the school setting. In the present preregistered questionnaire study, we investigated the attitudes of 138 preservice teachers from the University of Luxembourg toward LGB students and tried to identify predictors of teachers' attitudes. Results suggested that Luxembourgish preservice teachers hold mostly positive attitudes toward LGB students. Using correlation and multiple regression analyses, we identified the frequency of participants' contact with LGB people in family or friend networks, hypergendering tendencies, sexual orientation, and religiosity as reliable predictors of attitudes toward LGB students. Age, gender, and right-wing conservatism did not reliably predict preservice teachers' attitudes in the regression models. Our findings thus offer support for intergroup contact theory and have implications for teacher education in Luxembourg.
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, LGBTQ People, Foreign Countries, Minority Group Students, Social Bias, Predictor Variables, Social Networks, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Religious Factors, Social Influences
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Luxembourg
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