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Comprehensive Sexuality Education Improves Primary Students' Explicit and Implicit Attitudes Toward Homosexuality
Li Hong1, Xiangyu He1, Lian Xue1
1Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
Summary
Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) positively impacts migrant children's attitudes toward homosexuality. Six years of CSE learning experience led to more favorable explicit and implicit attitudes in the experimental group compared to the control group.
Area of Science:
- Social Psychology
- Education
Background:
- Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) is a curriculum-based approach.
- CSE is inclusive of gender and sexual orientation.
- Understanding attitudes toward homosexuality is crucial, especially among vulnerable populations like migrant children.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the impact of CSE on explicit and implicit attitudes toward homosexuality.
- To compare attitudes between migrant children with and without CSE learning experience.
Main Methods:
- Utilized the attitude toward homosexuality scale for explicit attitude measurement.
- Employed the single category implicit association test (SC-IAT) for implicit attitude assessment.
- Compared an experimental group (N=70) with 6 years of CSE experience against a control group (N=80) without CSE exposure.
Main Results:
- The experimental group demonstrated significantly more positive explicit attitudes toward homosexuality than the control group.
- The experimental group also exhibited significantly more positive implicit attitudes toward homosexuality compared to the control group.
- Findings indicate a measurable positive shift in both conscious and unconscious biases following CSE exposure.
Conclusions:
- CSE is an effective educational process for enhancing attitudes toward homosexuality.
- CSE contributes to fostering more inclusive perspectives among migrant children.
- The study underscores the value of CSE in promoting positive social attitudes and reducing prejudice.
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