Beliefs Toward Cure of Homosexuality Scale: Evidence for Factor Structure

Rezende, Alessandro Teixeira; Gouveia, Valdiney Veloso; Loureto, Gleidson Diego Lopes; Ribeiro, Maria Gabriela Costa; Oliveira, Karen Guedes de

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Papers • Psico-USF 27 (2) • Apr-Jun 2022 • https://doi.org/10.1590/1413-82712022270202 copy

Beliefs Toward Cure of Homosexuality Scale: Evidence for Factor Structure

Escala de Crenças sobre a Cura da Homossexualidade: Evidências para a Estrutura Fatorial

Escala de Creencias sobre la Cura de la Homosexualidad: Prueba de la Estructura Factorial

Authorship SCIMAGO INSTITUTIONS RANKINGS

Abstract

This study aimed to confirm the multifactorial structure of the Beliefs Toward Cure of Homosexuality Scale (BTCHS) - (ECCH in Portuguese) and to verify evidence of its validity based on external variables. To this end, two studies were carried out. In Study 1, there were 214 university students, with an average age of 24 years (SD = 9.15). These students answered the HCBS and demographic questions. The results indicated a satisfactory fit for multifactorial modeling. Study 2, in turn, presented 430 university students with an average age of 23 years (SD = 7.90). In addition to the HCBS, the participants responded to the measures of sexual prejudice (MSP) and attitudes towards gays and lesbians (ATGL) questionnaires. Performing correlation analyses between the variables, we found significant correlations between the HCBS and the MSP and ATGL. In conclusion, the HCBS presented an adequate data-model fit for its multifactorial structure and evidence for its validity based on external variables.

Keywords:
Curing homosexuality; structure; validation; factorial

Components	α	CR	EAV
Religious	0.93	0.93	0.77
Morals	0.88	0.88	0.66
Biological	0.90	0.90	0.70
Psychosocial	0.90	0.89	0.68
Psychological	0.87	0.88	0.66

	Biological	Religious	Psychological	Psychosocial	Moral
Sexual Prejudice
Heterosexism	0.51**	0.78**	0.64**	-0.77**	0.55**
Aversion to homosexuals	0.49**	0.30**	0.43**	-0.44**	0.48**
Positive beliefs about homosexuals	-0.04	-0.02	0.01	0.06	-0.02
Resistance to heteronormativity	-0.15**	-0.33**	-0.28**	0.35**	-0.19**
Denial of discrimination	0.38**	0.38**	0.46**	-0.40**	0.39**
Attitudes about Gays and Lesbians
Proximity rejection	0.52**	0.55**	0.59**	-0.63**	0.55**
Homopathologization	0.62**	0.69**	0.72**	-0.73**	0.64**
Modern Heterosexism	0.52**	0.71**	0.65**	-0.70**	0.54**
Support	-0.50**	-0.63**	-0.60**	0.69**	-0.50**

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