NDLI: Prejudice Toward Gender and Sexual Diversity in a Brazilian Public University: Prevalence, Awareness, and the Effects of Education

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Author	Costa, Angelo Brandelli Peroni, Rodrigo Oliva Camargo, Eric Seger Pasley, Andrew Nardi, Henrique Caetano
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	The objective of this study was to investigate how gender and sexual diversity prejudice (GenSex) expresses itself in a university, how prejudice varies in relation to socio-demographic characteristics, the effects of religious status, and how exposure to GenSex education affects levels of prejudice. Eight thousand one hundred eighty-four undergraduate students from Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), in southern Brazil, completed the revised version of the Prejudice Against Sexual and Gender Diversity scale. Data reflect a concentration of ‘extreme’ and ‘high’ prejudice in students enrolled in Engineering, Agricultural Sciences, and the Exact and Geological Sciences. ‘Moderate’ and ‘low’ prejudice was over-represented in these disciplines as well as in Health, Applied Social Science, and Biological Sciences student samples. Conversely, those who have ‘very low’ or ‘minimal’ prejudice tended to cluster in Humanities and Linguistics and Arts. Most students were unaware of ongoing discrimination, reporting to have neither seen nor heard of discrimination towards LGBT students at the university. Time spent at the university had a negligible effect in prejudice mean reduction. Although a large effect was found for previous GenSex training, overall there was substantial variation across disciplines. We recommend raising student awareness of prejudice on campus, in addition to better GenSex education policy for all students, regardless of discipline.
Starting Page	261
Ending Page	272
Page Count	12
File Format	PDF
ISSN	18689884
Journal	Sexuality Research & Social Policy
Volume Number	12
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	15536610
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2015-05-06
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Prejudice Sexuality Gender University Brazil Sexual Behavior Social Sciences
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Sociology and Political Science Gender Studies Health (social science)

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