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Attitudes regarding bisexuality: how it relates to emotional and sexual promiscuity?
| Resumo: | The discrimination against individuals with non-traditional sexual orientations has become a major problem in our society. The manifestations against sexual orientation contribute as negative attitudes towards sexual minorities. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relation between attitudes regarding bisexual individuals and emotional and sexual promiscuity. We also intended to translate and validate the Attitudes Regarding Bisexuality Scale to the Portuguese population that allows the assessment of attitudes about bisexuality, in homosexual and heterosexual people. A sample of 571 participants was collected, who answered an online questionnaire with demographic questions, the Attitudes Regarding Bisexuality Scale and the emotional and sexual promiscuity scales. Results showed that attitudes more positive regarding bisexuality are positively correlated with sexual promiscuity but not with emotional promiscuity. We assessed the psychometric qualities of the Attitudes Regarding Bisexuality Scale, including the sensitivity, construct validity and reliability. Results showed that the instrument has good psychometric qualities when used with the Portuguese population. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to evaluate the model used by the original authors, which provided a good fit to the data. |
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| Autores principais: | Gomes, Verónica Adão |
| Assunto: | Bisexuality Emotional promiscuity Sexual promiscuity Attitudes Bissexualidade Promiscuidade emocional Promiscuidade sexual Atitudes Ciências Sociais::Psicologia |
| Ano: | 2017 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | dissertação de mestrado |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade do Minho |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho |
| Resumo: | The discrimination against individuals with non-traditional sexual orientations has become a major problem in our society. The manifestations against sexual orientation contribute as negative attitudes towards sexual minorities. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relation between attitudes regarding bisexual individuals and emotional and sexual promiscuity. We also intended to translate and validate the Attitudes Regarding Bisexuality Scale to the Portuguese population that allows the assessment of attitudes about bisexuality, in homosexual and heterosexual people. A sample of 571 participants was collected, who answered an online questionnaire with demographic questions, the Attitudes Regarding Bisexuality Scale and the emotional and sexual promiscuity scales. Results showed that attitudes more positive regarding bisexuality are positively correlated with sexual promiscuity but not with emotional promiscuity. We assessed the psychometric qualities of the Attitudes Regarding Bisexuality Scale, including the sensitivity, construct validity and reliability. Results showed that the instrument has good psychometric qualities when used with the Portuguese population. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to evaluate the model used by the original authors, which provided a good fit to the data. |
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