2014/09/26 by Sebastian Jäckle, Georg Wenzelburger · 195 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences #Economics #General Social Survey #Homosexuality #Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) #LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy #Male Homosexuality #Men who have sex with men #Multilevel model #Psychology #Religion and Society Interactions #Religiosity #Social psychology #Sociology #Statistics #Survey data collection #Variance (accounting) #World Values Survey
paper · open access · doi:10.1080/00918369.2014.969071
published in Journal of Homosexuality 62(2), 207-241 (Taylor & Francis)
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Although attitudes toward homosexuality have become more liberal, particularly in industrialized Western countries, there is still a great deal of variance in terms of worldwide levels of homonegativity. Using data from the two most recent waves of the World Values Survey (1999-2004, 2005-2009), this article seeks to explain this variance by means of a multilevel analysis of 79 countries. We include characteristics on the individual level, as age or gender, as well as aggregate variables linked to specificities of the nation-states. In particular, we focus on the religious denomination of a person and her religiosity to explain her attitude toward homosexuality. We find clear differences in levels of homonegativity among the followers of the individual religions.