The Predictive Role of Homophobia and Unconditional Self-Acceptance on Respect of Differences in Psychological Counselor Candidates

Abstract

This research was conducted to investigate the predictive role of homophobia and unconditional self-acceptance on respect of differences in psychological counselor candidates. Participants were 239 psychological counselor candidates. The Respect of Differences Scale, the Homophobia Scale, and the Unconditional Self-Acceptance Scale were used to collect the data. Path analysis was used to determine the influences of variables on respect of differences. The independent sample t-test and one-way ANOVA were used to determine differences between participants in terms of gender and grade. The results of the analysis indicated that homophobia and unconditional self-acceptance are predictors of respect of differences, and place of living and traditionally have an indirect effect on respect of differences. In addition, female participants reported a higher level of respect of differences than male participants. Similarly, first year college students reported a higher level of respect of differences than fourth year college students.

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“…Research on unconditional self-acceptance found that a low level of unconditional self-acceptance correlates with depression, anxiety, anger, and neuroticism (Popov, 2019;Prihadi et al, 2019;Andronikos, 2021). High levels of unconditional self-acceptance were in general strongly related to mental health, happiness, self-esteem, life satisfaction, well-being, respect for the differences between individuals, and low levels of anxiety and depression (Vural-Batik, 2019;Bernard M. E., 2020). Unconditional self-acceptance also correlates positively with dispositional forgiveness (Porada et al, 2018), self-compassion and flourishing (Venet, 2019;Andronikos, 2021).…”