Page No: 62-69.
Nishchay Kohli
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
India is a land of diversity. But diversity comes with a price, and in India, with diversity,
there exists few negative consequences such as negative attitudes towards a variety
of issues like homosexuality, which is a characteristic of being sexually, physically
and emotionally attracted to the person of the same-sex. The current research aimed
to examine the attitude change between two generations, in which one group is of
college – going students in the age range of 18 to 21 years and the other group is of
individuals in middle adulthood, falling in the age range of 40 to 60. A total of 216
participants were there, out of which 115 participants were there in the college-going
students’ group of 18 to 21 years and 101 participants were present in the age group of
40 to 60 years. Purposive Sampling was done in this study. The Homophobia Scale
(HS) was employed for studying the attitude towards homosexuality which was developed
by Wright, Adams, and Jeffrey Bernat. The results revealed highly significant differences
in the attitudes towards homosexuality between the two generations in which participants
from the older generation had comparatively more negative and homophobic attitudes
as compared to the younger generation which had relatively more positive attitudes
towards homosexuality