College Students' Attitudes toward Homosexuality in China: the Effects of Culture

• In Event: Crime and Victimization in Various Cultural Contexts

Abstract

Unlike previous studies on attitudes toward homosexuality in China, this study explores cultural variables such as filial piety and other Confucian ideology that might account for Chinese students' attitudes toward homosexuality and the LGBT individuals, after controlling variables such as religiosity, gender, and other well-etablished demographic variables. The purpose of this research is to compare and contrast Chinese students' attitudes to those in the West so as to assess the effects of cultural difference on attitudes towards homosexuality and victimization of LGBT individuals.

Authors

• Kai Lin, University of Delaware

• Deeanna M. Button, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey