A Discriminant Analysis Approach to Exploring Changes in Human Sexuality Attitudes among University Students

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This exploratory study seeks to assess the attitudinal changes that graduate and undergraduate students may or may not experience after taking a college Human Sexuality course. The supposition, both by faculty and students, that sexuality courses bestow some beneficial change on the participants, continues to be suspect. A pretest and posttest, 18-item attitude scale, plus a series of qualitative strategies including open-ended questions and personal interviews, were used to evaluate 115 potential attitudinal changes in students over a two-year period. Exploring why certain attitudes change and what causes these changes was a secondary objective. The results of multivariate analyses indicated significant differences between the pretest and posttest for both the graduate and undergraduate groups. An analysis of the qualitative data basically supported the quantitative results and suggested some causal relationships.

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