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The Role of Personality Correlates and Threat Perception in Attitudes Toward Sex Education

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Advisor
Ellard, John Howard
Author
Gusarova, Inga
Committee Member
Alderson, Kevin George
MacInnis, Cara C
Ellard, John Howard
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sex education
attitudes
moral foundations
regulatory focus
threat
intervention
regression
mediation
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Educational Psychology
Education--Social Sciences
Psychology--Social
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Abstract
This study investigated the role of moral foundations, regulatory focus, and threat perception in attitudes toward sex education using a crowd-sourced sample of 473 participants (48% women, 52% men; ages 18-80, median age 33.5). Two dimensions of attitudes were identified (58.2% of total variance): Pragmatism, reflecting importance of sex education and its focus on tangible outcomes; and Moral Threat, reflecting perceptions that sex education could be threatening to moral values about sexuality or have harmful moral consequences. Regression analysis showed that combining social conservatism, religious attendance, moral foundations, and regulatory focus accounts for 37% of variance explained in Pragmatism and 44% in Moral Threat (p<.001). Mediation analyses indicated that most effects were direct rather than conveyed through threat perception. Findings showed that regulatory fit is unlikely to improve communication effectiveness of sex education materials, yet individualizing moral foundations and promotion focus represent promising targets for future research.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.5072/PRISM/28342
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http://hdl.handle.net/11023/3308
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