- Title
- The attitudes of Australian heterosexual university students towards the suicide of gay, lesbian and heterosexual peers
- Creator
- Molloy, Mari; McLaren, Suzanne
- Date
- 2004
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/38383
- Identifier
- vital:630
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1300/J367v02n02_03
- Identifier
- ISSN:1541-0889
- Abstract
- This study sought to examine the attitudes of heterosexual university students to peer suicide when that peer was gay, lesbian, or heterosexual. University students (n = 206) completed several questionnaires, including The Suicide Attitude Vignette Experience. Results indicated that the suicide act was seen as more justified, acceptable, and necessary when the adolescent was gay or lesbian. Further, gay and lesbian youth suicide victims were shown significantly less empathy than heterosexual suicide victims. Participants' level of homophobia was found to be a significant predictor of attitudes toward gay and lesbian youth suicide. Results indicate that the peer group of gay and lesbian youth is unsupportive of their sexual orientation, and these attitudes may be an additional risk factor for gay and lesbian youth suicide.; C1
- Publisher
- Binghamton, New York, USA Haworth Press Inc.
- Relation
- Journal of Gay and Lesbian Issues in Education Vol. 2, no. 2 (2004), p. 27-51
- Rights
- Copyright Haworth Press Inc.
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1303 Specialist Studies In Education; Australia; Attitudes; Homophobia; Suicide; Undergraduate students
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