la Roi Chaïm, Mandemakers Jornt J
University of Groningen/Interuniversity Centre for Social Science Theory and Methodology, The Netherlands.
Utrecht University, The Netherlands.
Soc Sci Res. 2018 Mar;71:109-128. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2017.12.006. Epub 2017 Dec 11.
Higher educated people tend to be more accepting of homosexuality than lower educated people. This has inspired claims that education leads to a higher acceptance of homosexuality. Alternatively, the association between education and acceptance of homosexuality could be confounded by (un)observed family background and stable individual characteristics. This study investigated the association between education and acceptance of homosexuality and the role of potential confounders in a unique longitudinal sample of British siblings. Multilevel and fixed effects analyses show that both perspectives apply. A large part of the association between education and acceptance of homosexuality could be attributed to family background and observed individual characteristics (one third), as well as unobserved individual characteristics (an additional third), but the positive association remains. Findings are discussed in light of existing explanations regarding the effect of education on the acceptance of homosexuality.
受教育程度较高的人往往比受教育程度较低的人更能接受同性恋。这引发了一种说法，即教育会使人对同性恋有更高的接受度。或者，教育与对同性恋的接受度之间的关联可能会被（未）观察到的家庭背景和稳定的个人特征所混淆。本研究在一个独特的英国兄弟姐妹纵向样本中，调查了教育与对同性恋的接受度之间的关联以及潜在混杂因素的作用。多层次和固定效应分析表明，两种观点都适用。教育与对同性恋的接受度之间的关联很大一部分可归因于家庭背景和观察到的个人特征（三分之一），以及未观察到的个人特征（另外三分之一），但积极关联仍然存在。我们根据关于教育对同性恋接受度影响的现有解释对研究结果进行了讨论。
