Attitudes Toward Homosexuality, Self Righteousness And Conformity Among Emerging Adults

Abstract

The desire between individuals of the same sex is referred to as homosexuality. Rather than being a gender identity like male, female, or nonbinary, it is a sexual orientation. Homosexuality can be influenced by changing one's attitudes and beliefs to more closely resemble the groups that one already belongs to or wishes to join and this is called social conformity. Being convinced of one's own justification, and morality, especially in contrast to the deeds and viewpoints of others, is self-righteousness. The study’s objective was to examine the attitudes toward homosexuality, self -righteousness, and conformity and whether there is any significant relation among them. 65 emerging adults of age 18 to 26 made up the sample, which include both males and females. This sample was collected through the Convenience sampling method. Tools used were Self Righteousness Scale (SRS), Homosexuality Attitude Scale (HAS), and Conformity Scale (CS). Using SPSS, statistical analysis was conducted. The data was examined using Spearman’s correlation test. According to the research, there is a substantial positive correlation between attitudes towards homosexuality and conformity as well as between those attitudes and self-righteousness and its subscale self-righteousness.