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T1 English Validation of a Short Scale Designed to Detect Negative Attitudes towards Trans People (EANT)
A1 Alonso Martínez, Laura
A1 Heras Sevilla, Davinia
A1 Fernández Hawrylak, María
A1 Forrest, Simon
K1 Negative attitudes
K1 Transgender person
K1 Prejudice
K1 Gender identity
K1 Scale validation
K1 Higher education
K1 Identidad sexual
K1 Gender identity
K1 Transexualismo
K1 Transsexualism
AB Background: Negative attitudes towards sexual minorities are widespread in our society. The Scale of Negative Attitudes towards Transgender people (EANT) has been tested in Spanish-speaking countries in order to assess its applicability as a measure of harmful predispositions towards trans individuals. Understanding these predispositions is important because of transformations in the rights of people in terms of respect for gender diversity. (2) Methods: For the validation of this scale, an online survey was developed and distributed to 362 UK university students aged 18 to 45 years (M = 21.43, SD = 3.42). The sample was randomly divided in half, carrying out the exploratory factor analysis for the first 180 students and performing the confirmatory factor analysis for the remaining 182. (3) Results: The validation of this unifactorial instrument in English was obtained, with a high internal consistency (α = 0.810) that suggests high applicability to measuring this construct, as well as showing expected relationships with typical variables (HATH, TIBS, gender, sexual orientation, religion and education). (4) Conclusions: This study assesses attitudinal tendencies and reveals how sexual prejudice is still implicit in our societies and makes the stigmatisation and discrimination of trans people visible. These findings support the development of strategies to tackle these predispositions.
PB MDPI
SN 2071-1050
YR 2021
FD 2021-04
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/9805
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/9805
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 22-dic-2024