Effectiveness of sexuality education curriculum to improve the attitude towards homosexuality in primary school
10.16835/j.cnki.1000-9817.2019.10.011
- VernacularTitle:性教育课程改善小学生同性恋态度效果评价
- Author:
GUO Lingfeng, FANG Shixin, LI Yumeng, LIU Shuang, LIU Wenli
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Author Information
1. Beijing Normal University Collaborative Innovation Center of Assessment Toward Basic Education Quality, Beijing(100875), China
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Sex education;
Homosexuality;
Attitude;
Students
- From:
Chinese Journal of School Health
2019;40(10):1478-1481
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective:To analyze the influence of sexuality education on primary school students’ attitude towards homosexuality, and provide practical teaching evidence of intervening campus bullying based on sexual orientation.
Methods:A primary school offering school-based sexuality education curriculums in Beijing was selected as an experimental school, another school with similar location, nature and scale, quality of teachers and teaching environment was selected as a control school. The graduates in experimental school received 6 years of sexuality education in grade 1 to grade 6 of primary school. A survey was conducted in Jun. 2018 among all the graduates in grade 6 of the two schools through an attitude scale on homosexuality adopting cluster sampling.
Results:The scores of attitude towards homosexuality in experimental school and control school were (42.85±15.46) and (60.17±12.54) respectively, with significantly statistical difference(t=-9.47, P<0.01). There were interaction effects on attitudes of primary school students towards homosexuality between gender and experience of sexuality education (P<0.05). There was no significant difference in attitude towards homosexuality between male and female students in control school(t=0.58, P>0.05), but in experimental school, the attitude scores of male and female students respectively were (47.64±14.31) and (38.13±15.19), with significantly statistical difference(t=3.47, P<0.01). There was no significant difference in attitude towards different sexual orientation between experimental school students and control school students(t=0.10，1.53，P>0.05).
Conclusion:Sexuality education curriculum can help improve attitude towards homosexuality of primary school students, which has better intervention effects on female students than male students, attitudinal difference in gay and lesbian has not formed in primary school students.
