Wang Ruile, Yang Qi, Huang Peng, Sai Liyang, Gong Yue
Department of General Education, Xiamen University Tan Kah Kee College, Zhangzhou, China.
School of Humanities, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.
Front Psychol. 2019 Jun 6;10:1229. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01229. eCollection 2019.
Previous studies have found that "disgust-sensitive" individuals have negative attitudes toward gay and lesbian people, but the underlying mechanisms for such attitudes remain unclear. Based on moral foundations theory, the current paper assumes that the relationship between disgust sensitivity and attitudes toward homosexuality are mediated by moral foundations. In order to test this assumption, the current authors examined the questionnaire answers from a total of 452 Chinese undergraduates who participated in this study. The results showed that disgust sensitivity was positively correlated with negative attitudes toward homosexuality, and positively correlated with moral concerns in five domains (care, fairness, loyalty, authority, and sanctity). Authority and sanctity were both associated with attitudes toward homosexuality, while only sanctity mediated the relationship between disgust sensitivity and attitudes toward homosexuality. Overall, the results suggest that considering moral foundations (especially sanctity) may lend more insight to the associations between disgust sensitivity and negative attitudes toward gay and lesbian people.
以往的研究发现，“厌恶敏感型”个体对同性恋者持有消极态度，但这种态度背后的机制仍不明确。基于道德基础理论，本文假设厌恶敏感性与对同性恋态度之间的关系是由道德基础所介导的。为了验证这一假设，本文作者考察了总共452名参与本研究的中国大学生的问卷回答。结果显示，厌恶敏感性与对同性恋的消极态度呈正相关，且与五个领域（关爱、公平、忠诚、权威和圣洁）的道德关注呈正相关。权威和圣洁均与对同性恋的态度相关，而只有圣洁介导了厌恶敏感性与对同性恋态度之间的关系。总体而言，研究结果表明，考虑道德基础（尤其是圣洁）可能会更深入地洞察厌恶敏感性与对同性恋者的消极态度之间的关联。
