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Implicit attitudes towards transgender people: reliability and validity of a single-target implicit association test
Jacques van Lankveld1, Anne Daams1, Mark Hommes1
1Open Universiteit, Heerlen, Netherlands.
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Transgender and gender diverse (TGD) individuals often experience stigma due to negative prejudices from others. Whereas research previously focused on conscious attitudes through self-reporting, more recent studies also investigate automatic, unconscious reactions. This study investigated the reliability and validity of a novel Single-Target Implicit Association Test (ST-IAT) for measuring implicit attitudes towards transgender people. In total, N = 85 individuals from the general population (47 cis men, 38 cis women, Mage = 45.6 years) participated in an online study. Based on split-half reliability analysis with Spearman-Brown correction for attenuation, the instrument was found reliable, in the sense of internally consistent (α = 0.89). Supporting the expectations with regard to its construct and predictive validity, the Transgender ST-IAT scores were positively correlated with the explicit attitude towards transgender individuals (ρ = 0.46, p < .001) and with degree of contact with transgender individuals (ρ = 0.25, p = .02). It was negatively related to genderism (ρ = -0.41, p < .001). Possibilities for future research are discussed.
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