Attitudes of students in Serbia towards lesbians and gay men: The research results

Abstract

Attitudes towards Punitiveness and Gay and Lesbian Issues that encompasses ten European and non-European countries. The data was collected with the useof the standardised question­ naire, while respondents were students who couldwork in the criminaljustice system.In Serbia, the survey was conducted on a sampleof 188 students of the third and fourth year of the un­ dergraduate studies at three faculties in Belgrade: the Faculty of Special Education and Rehabilitationand the Faculty of Phi· losophy, Department of Psychology (University of Belgrade) and the Faculty of Law (University Union).The questionnaire in­ cluded three scales of attitudes: towards lesbians and gay men, towards crime and towards criminalsanctions. The aim of the chapter is to present a part of the survey findings conceming students' attitudes towardslesbians and gay men.The Herek (1998) Scaleof Attitudes towards Lesbians and Gay Men was used in the survey. Itconsisted of 20 different statements, ten about gay men and ten aboutlesbians, to which respondents indicated theirlevel of agreement or disagreement on a 5-point Likert-type scale. The paper starts with an overview of the avail­ ableso far research on the students' attitudes towards lesbians and gay men.This is followed with a brief overview of the sur­ vey methodology. Afterwards, the survey findings on students' attitudes towardslesbians and gay men and contributingfac­ tors are presented and discussed. Inthe final part, the main condusions are pointed out, aswellas recommendations relat­ ed to the necessity of raisingawareness about the rights of per­ sons of different sexual orientation in the field of higher educa­ tion and the importance of sensitizing future professionals who couldwork in the criminaljustice system.

Srbija je 201B. godine ukljucena u Kom­ parativnu studiju o stavovima studenata prema kaznjavanju iprema lezbejkama i gej mu.Skarcima, koja je ukljucila deset evropskih ivan evropskih drZava. Podaci su prikupljani putem ankete, primenom standardizovanog upitnika na uzorku stu­ denata koji se .Skoluju za rad u krivicno­ pravnom sistemu.lstrazivanjeje sprove­ deno na uzorku od 1BB studenata i studentkinja trece icetvrte godine tri fakulteta u Beogradu: Fakulteta za speci· jalnu edukadju irehabilitadju, Filozofskog fakulteta, Odeljenja za psihologiju (Uni- verzitet u Beogradu) iPravnom fakultetu (Univerzitet Union). Upitnikje obuhvatio tri skale za ispitivanje stavova: premalez- bejkama igej mu.Skarcima, prema krimi· nalitetu i prema kaznjavanju. Cilj ovog poglavlja je prikaz ianaliza dela nalaza

istraziva nja koji se odnose na stavoveispi· tanih studenata premalezbejkama igej mu.Skarcima. U istrazivanju je kori.Scena Herekova (199B) skala stavova prema lez­ bejkama igej mu.Skarcima. Ona je obuh­ vatila 20 razlicitih tvdnji,deset o gej mu.Skarcima ideseto lezbejkama, za koje su ispitanici zamoljeni da navedu stepen slaganja na petostepenoj skali Likertovog tipa. U radu se polazi od pregleda nalaza dosadasnjih istrazivanja na ovu temu.Na­ kon toga je dat prikaz metodolo.Skog ok­ vira istrazivanja, a potom prikaz ianaliza rezultata istrazivanja, pricemuje poseban fokus na faktorima koji doprinose predra­ sudama ispitanika prema lezbejkama igej mu.Skarcima.U zavr.Snom delu su izneti · glavni zakljucci , kao i preporuke us- merene na neophodnost rada na podizan- ju svesti o pravimaosoba drugacije seksu- alne orijentacije u oblasti visokog obrazovanja i znat':aju senzibilizacije buducih strufojaka koji mogu da rade u · krivicnopravnom sistemu. Kljutnt1 reli: stavovi, studenti,lezbejke, gej mu.Skarci,istrazivanje, Srbija