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Beliefs about sexuality survey This survey takes about 5 minutes to complete. It includes questions about the coverage of lesbian gay and bisexual issues on your course along with questions about your views regarding sexual orientation. Please consider each item carefully and indicate the response you feel most accurately represents your feelings and opinions. |
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1. My course/s at university have contained content on the subject of human sexuality |
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2. The issue of sexuality has nothing to do with my subject |
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3. I think more content about sexuality would have been a good thing |
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4. I would feel embarrassed to be taught about and to discuss sexuality in class |
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5. I don’t think sexuality is a relevant subject for academic study |
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6. I have met a lot of people of different sexual orientations at university |
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7. University has made me more open minded about people with different sexual orientations |
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8. I haven’t really met many gay/lesbian/bisexual people at my university |
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9. My experiences at university have led me to think differently about my own sexuality |
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1. Sexual orientations are categories with clear and sharp boundaries: People are either homosexual or heterosexual. |
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2. Whether a person is homosexual or heterosexual is pretty much set early on in childhood. |
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3. The type of person you are attracted to can change throughout your life depending on your experiences |
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4. Sexual attraction is the result of an underlying human drive to reproduce |
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5. Being sexually attracted to someone of the same sex indicates an imbalance or abnormality of some sort. |
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6. Men are often held back by the way society expects them to be |
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7. Women are often held back by the way society expects them to be |
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8. Men and women have a fundamentally different nature |
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9. Sexual orientation and identity are complex and difficult to determine unless you get to know a person. |
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10. As long as children are not exposed to homosexual ideas, they will grow up to be straight. |
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11. Children should be brought up knowing that it is okay for people of the same sex to be in love |
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12. Some of my best friends are gay/lesbian/bisexual |
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13. Men and women are more alike than we are different |
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14. Women who are masculine probably have too many male hormones and men who are feminine too many female hormones |
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15. There are many different acceptable ways of being masculine and feminine no matter which sex you are |
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16. I would be uncomfortable socializing with people of a same-sex orientation |
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1. Your home when you were growing up |
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4. The college you went to |
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6. Your halls of residence/shared accommodation |
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8. Where you currently live |
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1. Age group 18- 21 41-50 |
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3. On a scale of 1-7 with 1 being not religious at all and 7 being very religious please indicate how religious a person you are: |
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3. How would you describe your own sexuality? Please tick |
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