Attitudes towards transgender people and reactions to friend's and child'transsexuality

Mihatović, Domagoj. (2015). Attitudes towards transgender people and reactions to friend's and child'transsexuality. Diploma Thesis. Filozofski fakultet u Zagrebu, Department of Psychology. [mentor Jokić-Begić, Nataša].

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Abstract

The aim of this study was to examine predictors of attitudes towards transgender individuals and to examine reactions to hipothetical transsexuality of a close friend and own child. Sociodemographic data was collected on a sample of 762 participants. As a measure of attitudes towards transgender individuals, the Transphobia scale (Nagoshi, 2008) was administered. For the purpose of this study, a questionaire examining potential reactions to friend's or child's transsexuality was constructed, from which the Friend's transsexuality acceptance scale and Child’s transsexuality unacceptance scale were derived. The two scales were used as measures of reactions to friend’s/child’s transsexuality. A series od hierarchical regression analyses was conducted to examine the predictive value of sociodemographic and other relevant variables for attitudes towards transgender individuals and reactions to friend’s and child’s transsexuality as criterion variables. Results show more positive attitudes towards transgender people among women, those who give less importance to a belief system, those with a more liberal political inclination, those who are more acquainted with the definition of transsexuality, know a transgender or transsexual person and those who attribute the cause of transsexuality more to biological and less to social factors. If a persons close friend were to out themself as transsexual, more accepting and supporting reactions would come from women, younger individuals, those who give more importance to a belief system, those with a more liberal political inclination, those who are more acquainted with the definition of transsexuality, those who attribute the cause of transsexuality more to biological factors and from those who generally have more positive attitudes towards trangender people. If the transsexual person in question was their own child, more unaccepting reactions characterized with a pathologizing viewpoint of the phenomenon and a sense of personal responsibility would come from persons with a higher level of education, those who give more importance to a belief system, those who attribute the cause of transsexuality more to psychological factors and from those who generally have more negative attitudes towards transgender people.

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