Evaluations of Parenting by Same-Sex vs Different-Sex Couples among Heterosexual University Students: Experimental Between-Subjects Vignette Design Study

Autor: Marina Štambuk, Mateo Štrbić, Petra Žukina, Tomislav Jeleković, Marija Brajković, Dora Popović
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Revija za Sociologiju, Vol 49, Iss 2, Pp 253-281 (2019)
Revija za sociologiju
Volume 49
Issue 2
ISSN: 1846-7954
0350-154X
Popis: Despite the decline in prejudice towards LGBT people, the issue of parenthood is still controversial with negative attitudes towards LGBT parents being openly expressed. This study aimed to examine attitudes towards parenting by same-sex couples using a vignette design. Parenting condition (parent’s negative vs positive reaction), active parent’s gender (mother vs father) and family composition (different-sex vs same-sex couple) were varied to test differences in the evaluations of parenting, child behaviour, family environment, social distance and willingness to grant rights. 392 heterosexual and cisgender students from the University of Zagreb (87% female, 13% male), aged 18 to 37, participated in an online study. After reading one of the eight vignettes, participants evaluated parenting, child behaviour, family environment, social distance and rights of the family described in the vignette. The results showed that parenting and family environment were evaluated as better, and participants were less convinced that the child’s behaviour is the result of parents’ relationship in the positive parenting condition than in the negative. Social distance was lower towards parents in the positive parenting condition than in the negative and – unexpectedly – towards same-sex in comparison to different-sex couples. Participants were more inclined to grant family rights to parents from the positive than to those from the negative parenting condition. Although other results suggested unbiased attitudes towards same-sex couples’ parenting, participants were less inclined to grant same-sex couples family rights in comparison to different-sex couples. The findings reflect an important mechanism underlying the stability of prejudice – a resistance towards generalising attitudes from individual cases to a group. This can be used in efforts to confront prejudice against parenting among LGBT people
Unatoč smanjenju predrasuda prema LGBT osobama, pitanje roditeljstva još je uvijek kontroverzno i negativni stavovi o LGBT roditeljima otvoreno se iznose. Cilj ove studije bio je istražiti stavove prema roditeljstvu istospolnih parova koristeći vinjete. Varirani su bili uvjet roditeljstva (negativna u odnosu na pozitivnu reakciju roditelja), spol aktivnog roditelja (majka u odnosu na oca) i struktura obitelji (istospolni u odnosu na parove različitog spola) kako bi se testirale razlike u procjenama roditeljstva, ponašanja djece, obiteljske klime, društvene distance i spremnosti na priznavanje prava. U internetskom anketnom istraživanju sudjelovalo je 392 studenta/ice Sveučilišta u Zagrebu (87% ženskog i 13% muškog spola) u dobi od 18 do 37 godina. Nakon čitanja jedne od osam vinjeta, sudionici/e su procjenjivali roditeljstvo, ponašanje djeteta, obiteljsku klimu, društvenu distancu i prava za članove/ice obitelji opisane u vinjeti. Roditeljstvo i obiteljska klima bili su bolje procijenjeni te su sudionici/e bili manje uvjereni da je dječje ponašanje rezultat roditeljskog odnosa u uvjetu pozitivne roditeljske reakcije u odnosu na negativnu. Društvena distanca bila je manja prema roditeljima u uvjetu pozitivne roditeljske reakcije u odnosu na negativnu i, neočekivano, prema istospolnim u odnosu na parove različitog spola. Sudionici/e su bili spremniji priznati prava vezana uz obitelj roditeljima u uvjetu pozitivne roditeljske reakcije u odnosu na negativnu. Iako drugi rezultati nisu pokazali negativnu pristranost prema roditeljstvu istospolnih parova, sudionici/e su bili manje skloni priznati im prava vezana uz obitelj u odnosu na parove različitog spola. Ti nalazi odražavaju važan mehanizam stabilnosti predrasuda – otpor prema generaliziranju stavova od individualnih slučajeva na skupinu i mogu se upotrijebiti pri suzbijanju predrasuda o roditeljstvu LGBT osoba.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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