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Relationship Between Acculturation and Attitudes Toward Gay Men and Lesbians in the Vietnamese American Community
Author(s) -
LUU THANG D.,
BARTSCH ROBERT A.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2011.00840.x
Subject(s) - acculturation , vietnamese , psychology , homosexuality , social psychology , lesbian , scale (ratio) , asian americans , identity (music) , gender studies , ethnic group , sociology , anthropology , linguistics , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , acoustics , psychoanalysis
We examined the impact of acculturation on attitudes toward gay men and lesbians in the Vietnamese American community. We recruited 114 Vietnamese American participants at a large community organization. The Suinn–Lew Asian Self‐Identity Acculturation Scale (Suinn, 1992) was used to measure participants' acculturation levels, while the Attitudes Toward Lesbian and Gay Men Scale (Herek, 2004) was used to measure participants' attitudes toward homosexuality. It was hypothesized that Vietnamese Americans with higher levels of acculturation would have more positive attitudes toward homosexuality. The results supported this hypothesis. Additionally, we found a complicated pattern of results explaining attitudes based on acculturation level, age, and gender.