The Moderated Mediation Effect of Affective Empathy on the Relation between Authoritarianism, Traditional Gender-Role Attitudes, and Homophobia with Secondary School Teachers
Abstract
The purpose of the current study was to explore the relationships among the antecedents of homophobia in a sample of secondary school teachers. Specifically, we hypothesized the moderated mediation model that the traditional gender-role attitudes mediated the relationship between authoritarianism and homophobia and the affective empathy moderated the link between traditional gender-role attitudes and homophobia. The results suggested that traditional gender-role attitudes partially mediated the association between authoritarianism and homophobia. Also, the moderating effect of affective empathy on the link between traditional gender-role attitudes and homophobia was significant. For those with high levels of affective empathy, the correlation between authoritarianism and homophobia was more positive. In addition, the moderated mediation effect was confirmed that the mediation effect of traditional gender-role attitude was statistically significant only with the higher level of emotional empathy, but not with the lower level of emotional empathy. Given these findings, several suggestions for developing teachers’ multicultural awareness and competency and future research were discussed.
- keywords
- 중․고등학교 교사, 권위주의 성향, 전통적 성역할 태도, 정서적 공감, 동성애공포, Secondary school teachers, authoritarianism, traditional gender-role attitudes, affective empathy, homophobia
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