MEASURING OF HOMOPHOBIA: FROM TRADITIONAL TO MODERN INSTRUMENTS FOR MEASURING PREJUDICES TOWARD GAY PEOPLE

Abstract

: Due to increasing demands for equal civil rights, followed by the positive public attitudes toward sexual minorities in the past decades, this paper tracks changes in instruments measuring and explaining attitudes toward gay people while examining their value predispositions. The overview of several traditional and modern homophobia scales give a general insight in various predictive variables explaining why, and to what extent people hold certain attitudes towards homosexuality in view of their acceptance.