A study was conducted to measure an individual’s attitudes towards homosexuality, attitude scales have been devised from Larsen et al in 1980 to LeMar and Kite’s 1997 attitude scale, to reflect modern day attitudes towards homosexuality a study was conducted using a new scale as the old one is outdated, using this new scale and additional study was conducted into the attitudes of an individual and the participant’s levels of religiosity to test the relationship between the two topics.
Various studies that looked into religious views and the acceptance of homosexuality have stated that religion and other factors influence an individual’s attitude to homosexuality (Decoo, 2014), an experiment was conducted examining young people’s attitudes …show more content…
After identifying the high and low scoring participants, a t-test comparing the means of the high and low scores as well as identifying the significant and non-significant scores was conducted, after identifying this the non-significant scores the scale variable was updated bringing the total from 15 questions to 11.
After conducting a discriminative analysis, a Cronbach’s alpha was conducted this refers to a measure used to determine the reliability or consistency of a scale (using and interpreting Cronbach 's alpha, 2016), for a Cronbach 's alpha to be significant it has to be above 0.7, a Cronbach 's alpha of .126 was found, this shows that the items on the scale are measuring the same thing.
Validity analysis consists of two sub-sections internal validity and external validity, internal validity refers to the degree in which variables such as extraneous and confounding variables does not affect the outcome of the test and external validity is the degree in which the experiment can be applied to the real world. (validity and reliability, 2016) the data was screened for parametric assumptions, it was found that the data is significant, r(38)=.585, p <0.05 1-tailed test, due to this the new scale is both reliable and
Various studies that looked into religious views and the acceptance of homosexuality have stated that religion and other factors influence an individual’s attitude to homosexuality (Decoo, 2014), an experiment was conducted examining young people’s attitudes …show more content…
After identifying the high and low scoring participants, a t-test comparing the means of the high and low scores as well as identifying the significant and non-significant scores was conducted, after identifying this the non-significant scores the scale variable was updated bringing the total from 15 questions to 11.
After conducting a discriminative analysis, a Cronbach’s alpha was conducted this refers to a measure used to determine the reliability or consistency of a scale (using and interpreting Cronbach 's alpha, 2016), for a Cronbach 's alpha to be significant it has to be above 0.7, a Cronbach 's alpha of .126 was found, this shows that the items on the scale are measuring the same thing.
Validity analysis consists of two sub-sections internal validity and external validity, internal validity refers to the degree in which variables such as extraneous and confounding variables does not affect the outcome of the test and external validity is the degree in which the experiment can be applied to the real world. (validity and reliability, 2016) the data was screened for parametric assumptions, it was found that the data is significant, r(38)=.585, p <0.05 1-tailed test, due to this the new scale is both reliable and