Social Work Students' Attitudes toward Homosexuality and Their Knowledge and Attitudes toward Homosexual Parenting as an Alternative Family Unit: An Australian Study
Social Work Students' Attitudes toward Homosexuality and Their Knowledge and Attitudes toward Homosexual Parenting as an Alternative Family Unit: An Australian Study
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10.1080/02615470600565244
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发表时间：
2006-01-01
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1.8
通讯作者：
Ryan, Martin
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作者：
Camilleri, Priscilla;Ryan, Martin
人们对同性恋的态度越来越接受，但对同性恋父母的负面态度仍然存在。似乎没有专门研究澳大利亚社会工作专业学生对同性恋和同性恋父母的态度。本文报道了在维多利亚州的一所大学的本科社会工作课程的最后一年的社会工作学生的研究。本研究调查了学生对同性恋的态度，他们的知识和态度对同性恋父母作为一个替代的家庭单位，通过管理的问卷，其中包含一些规模和问题，一些在回应的情况下，涉及不同性取向的夫妇（女同性恋，男同性恋和异性恋）的小插曲。结果发现，大部分学生对同性恋和同性恋父母持开放态度，对同性恋父母的知识水平较高。学生们普遍对小插曲中的三对夫妇都很满意，但对女同性恋父母的评价最高，其次是男同性恋父母。调查发现，在社会工作课程中纳入同性恋主题的情况极少。这些研究结果进行了讨论的背景下，以前的研究。最后，本研究亦针对研究结果对课程发展之意涵与未来研究方向进行讨论。
Attitudes have become increasingly more accepting toward homosexuality, yet negative attitudes toward homosexual parents continue. There appears to be no research specifically examining Australian social work students' attitudes towards homosexuality and homosexual parenting. This article reports on a study of final year social work students in the undergraduate social work programme at one university in the State of Victoria. This study investigated student attitudes to homosexuality, and their knowledge and attitudes toward homosexual parenting as an alternative family unit via the administration of a questionnaire containing a number of scales and questions, some in response to a case vignette involving couples of different sexual orientations (lesbian, gay and heterosexual). It was found that most of the students had liberal attitudes toward homosexuality and homosexual parenting, and had high levels of knowledge about homosexual parenting. Students were generally favourable towards all three couples in the vignettes, but rated lesbian parents followed by gay parents most highly. It was found that the inclusion of the topic of homosexuality within the social work curriculum was extremely minimal. These findings are discussed within the context of previous research. The implications of the findings for curriculum development and directions for future research are also discussed.