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Nasa Ikuta1, Yuji Koike2, Naoko Aoyagi3
1Master's Course, Graduate School of Education, Ibaraki University, Ibaraki, Japan.
Objective:
To elucidate the acceptability of sexual minorities according to Japanese youth, we conducted a survey targeting university students.
Methods:
Participants were second- to fourth-year students (n=945) at Ibaraki University, Japan, who were randomly chosen for the survey to measure their attitudes toward lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals. We divided the respondents into two groups: one group who had encounters with LGBT people, and one group with no such experience. Chi-square tests were used to compare responses between the groups.
Results:
More than 60% of the students considered LGBT people to be acceptable; the group with prior encounters had greater levels of acceptance compared to the group without such encounters.
Conclusion:
This is the first study to clarify the acceptability of sexual minorities among university students in Japan. Our data suggested that having contact with LGBT people in school life may help build an inclusive educational system.
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