TY - JOUR
T1 - Personality Traits and Individual Attitudes Toward Same-Sex Marriage
T2 - Evidence from Taiwan
AU - Wang, Ching Hsing
AU - Lin, Tsong jyi
AU - Weng, Dennis Lu Chung
AU - Chang, Yi Bin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2020/9/1
Y1 - 2020/9/1
N2 - While same-sex marriage has been a particularly salient issue in recent years in Taiwan, few scholarly attentions have been paid to examine the determinants of individual attitudes toward same-sex marriage. This study attempts to understand how personality influences individual support for same-sex marriage in Taiwan. Using the original data collected in July 2017 in Taiwan, this study finds that people with higher levels of agreeableness are more likely to oppose same-sex marriage. Besides, conscientiousness and openness to experience have heterogeneous effects on individual attitudes toward same-sex marriage for people of different ages. Specifically, a higher level of conscientiousness is positively associated with support for same-sex marriage among younger people but is negatively correlated with support for same-sex marriage among older people. Similarly, a higher level of openness to experience would lead to increased support for same-sex marriage for younger people but would result in decreased support for same-sex marriage for older people. Overall, our findings indicate that personality can provide some explanatory power for individual attitudes toward homosexual rights.
AB - While same-sex marriage has been a particularly salient issue in recent years in Taiwan, few scholarly attentions have been paid to examine the determinants of individual attitudes toward same-sex marriage. This study attempts to understand how personality influences individual support for same-sex marriage in Taiwan. Using the original data collected in July 2017 in Taiwan, this study finds that people with higher levels of agreeableness are more likely to oppose same-sex marriage. Besides, conscientiousness and openness to experience have heterogeneous effects on individual attitudes toward same-sex marriage for people of different ages. Specifically, a higher level of conscientiousness is positively associated with support for same-sex marriage among younger people but is negatively correlated with support for same-sex marriage among older people. Similarly, a higher level of openness to experience would lead to increased support for same-sex marriage for younger people but would result in decreased support for same-sex marriage for older people. Overall, our findings indicate that personality can provide some explanatory power for individual attitudes toward homosexual rights.
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U2 - 10.1007/s13178-019-00401-4
DO - 10.1007/s13178-019-00401-4
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85073937701
SN - 1868-9884
VL - 17
SP - 524
EP - 540
JO - Sexuality Research and Social Policy
JF - Sexuality Research and Social Policy
IS - 3
ER -