Does Contact Matter?: The Relative Importance of Contact in Predicting Anti-Gay Prejudice in Jamaica

West, Keon

doi:10.1080/00918369.2018.1547559

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“…By contrast, women, non-whites, and sexual minority respondents were, on average, less likely to agree that finding a mentally healthy romantic partner was important. Previous researchers have suggested that minority individuals (women, racial/ethnic minorities, LGBT) are more likely to be accepting of other minority individuals due to both contact hypotheses [55] and minority-stress experiences [56].…”

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“Lovesick”: Mental Health and Romantic Relationships among College Students

Ritter

Hilliard

Knox

2022

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This research investigated the interpersonal impact of self-reported mental health diagnoses and/or perceptions on undergraduate students’ current or most recent romantic relationship. Analysis of data from a 43-item online questionnaire completed by 267 undergraduates revealed that 68.3% of women and 52.5% of men reported having either been professionally diagnosed with a mental illness or perceive themselves to be mentally ill based on DSM criteria, with women and white students reporting significantly higher levels. Sociologically speaking, mental illness was found to influence relationship initiation, maintenance, and dissolution in this study. The mental health of the respondents’ potential partners was an important consideration in deciding to form a relationship, particularly for male, white, heterosexuals. When the respondents reported relationship problems, men were more likely to blame such problems on mental health issues than women. Finally, though more respondents reported having broken up with a romantic partner who had mental health issues than had romantic partners break up with them, there were no significant gender, race, or sexual orientation differences in the termination of these romantic relationships. Study findings emphasize the importance of acknowledging and providing mental health resources—particularly interpersonal options—for emerging adults in the college setting.

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“Lovesick”: Mental Health and Romantic Relationships among College Students

Ritter

Hilliard

Knox

2022

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“…Furthermore, these two groups may encounter gay/lesbian Christians more frequently than nonreligious cisgender heterosexual people do (due to identity-related activities such as Pride or church events). This contact may raise more opportunities to act on biases toward gay/lesbian Christians, but it may also mitigate such biases over time (Herek & Capitanio, 1996; Lytle et al, 2017; West, 2020).…”

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Sexual minority and religious majority: Nonreligious gay/lesbian people’s and cisgender heterosexual Christians’ evaluations of gay and lesbian Christians.

Valen,

Burke

2024

Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity

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“…Examination of relations between legal rights and attitudes has also been largely limited to Western countries, which tend to be more institutionally supportive of LGBT people compared to many non-Western nations. Further, examination of personal rights support is particularly critical given that the amount of contact one has with gays/lesbians is associated with less anti-gay attitudes, but not with fewer anti-gay behaviours, in countries known to be intolerant towards gays and lesbians (West, 2020). Thus, it remains unclear whether LGBT contact can increase support for LGBT communities, beyond favourable attitudes or evaluations, in certain environments.…”

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A multilevel analysis of LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) rights support across 77 countries: The role of contact and country laws

Earle

Hoffarth

Prusaczyk

et al. 2020

British J Social Psychol

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Although intergroup contact reduces prejudice generally, there are growing calls to examine contextual factors in conjunction with contact. Such an approach benefits from more sophisticated analytic approaches, such as multilevel modelling, that take both the individual (Level-1) and their environment (Level-2) into account. Using this approach, we go beyond attitudes to assess both individual and contextual predictors of support for gay/ lesbian and transgender rights. Using a sample of participants across 77 countries, results revealed that personal gay/lesbian contact (Level-1) and living in a country with more gay/ lesbian rights (Level-2) predicted greater support for gay/lesbian rights (n = 71,991). Likewise, transgender contact and living in a country with more transgender rights predicted more support for transgender rights (n = 70,056). Cross-level interactions are also presented and discussed. Overall, findings highlight the importance of both individual and contextual factors in predicting support for LGBT communities.Considerable research suggests that personal contact with an outgroup reduces prejudice towards that group (e.g., Pettigrew & Tropp, 2006). However, there are growing calls to examine the role of contextual factors, such as the laws in one's country, in conjunction with contact effects (e.g., Hodson, Costello, & MacInnis, 2013;Pettigrew, 2008) to predict outgroup attitudes. This may be particularly important in the context of LGBT contact, as there remains considerable cross-national variability in legislative support for LGBT communities; that is, some countries have adopted pro-LGBT policies more readily than others. Despite an overall global increase in LGBT rights and greater acceptance of LGBT people among individuals (e.g.

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Does Contact Matter?: The Relative Importance of Contact in Predicting Anti-Gay Prejudice in Jamaica

Abstract: This study was conducted with the assistance of the organization J-FLAG. The Author declares that he has no conflict of interests.

Cited by 6 publications

References 61 publications

“Lovesick”: Mental Health and Romantic Relationships among College Students

“Lovesick”: Mental Health and Romantic Relationships among College Students

Sexual minority and religious majority: Nonreligious gay/lesbian people’s and cisgender heterosexual Christians’ evaluations of gay and lesbian Christians.

A multilevel analysis of LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) rights support across 77 countries: The role of contact and country laws

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