Actitudes de los adolescentes hacia la diversidad sexual

Abstract

The present research deals with the attitudes that adolescents of the unified general baccalaureate (BGU) of the particular educative units of the city of Azogues face to the sexual diversity. The sample consisted of students from the baccalaureate of the particular educational units of the city of Azogues "San Diego de Alcalá", "La Providencia", "La Salle" and "Cesar Cordero Moscoso", which were selected through a representative sample of 322 students using the probabilistic procedure by clusters of clusters of men and women between the ages of 13 and 18 belonging to the 1st, 2nd and 3rd of the BGU. The study was a quantitative cross-sectional and exploratory study. The instrument was the Spanish survey of attitudes toward sexual diversity (Pichardo et al., 2009), which consists of 16 items that explore the attitudes of adolescents toward sexual diversity. The aim of this research was to identify the attitudes of adolescents toward sexual diversity to analyze them and differentiate them by gender. Results were processed in the SPSS 22 program, percentages were calculated and Chi-square test of homogeneity was used to demonstrate significant differences between male and female adolescents. Most adolescents were found to have liberal homophobic attitudes. It was concluded that it is the male adolescents who are formed in these institutions who have the most rooted in homophobia, since it is observed that attitudes such as mocking, threatening, beating or beating are much more characteristic in them.