HOMOPHOBIC PEOPLE OFTEN HAVE PSYCHOLOGICAL ISSUES

HOMOPHOBIA
Homophobic attitudes may say a lot about the person who holds them, new research suggests.



A new study of university students in Italy revealed that people who have strongly negative views of gay people also have higher levels of psychoticism and inappropriate coping mechanisms than those who are accepting of homosexuality.

This doesn't mean that homophobic people are psychotic; rather, psychoticism is a personality trait marked by hostility, anger and aggression toward others. But the study does suggest that people who cling to homophobic views have some psychological issues, said lead researcher Emmanuele Jannini, an endocrinologist and medical sexologist at the University of Rome Tor Vergata.

"The study is opening a new research avenue, where the real disease to study is homophobia," Jannini told Live Science. [7 Thoughts That Are Bad for You]

The psychology of homophobia

Earlier research has found homophobia to be a complex subject, with some studies suggesting that people with visceral negative reactions to gays and lesbians often harbor same-sex desires themselves. Other studies, though, contest that idea, and suggest that homophobic people are truly averse to same-sex attraction. Other factors — such as religiosity, sensitivity to disgust, hypermasculinity and misogyny — seem to play a role in anti-gay beliefs, Jannini and his colleagues wrote in an article published Sept. 8 in The Journal of Sexual Medicine.

But no one had ever looked at the mental health or psychopathology of homophobic people. In the new study, the researchers asked 551 Italian university students, ranging in age from 18 to 30, to fill out questionnaires on their levels of homophobia as well as their psychopathology, including levels of depression, anxiety and psychoticism. The homophobia scale required participants to rate how strongly they agreed or disagreed (on a 5-point scale) with 25 statements, such as: Gay people make me nervous; I think homosexual people should not work with children; I tease and make jokes about gay people; and It does not matter to me whether my friends are gay or straight.

The students also answered questions about their attachment style, which categorizes how people approach relationships. The "healthy" attachment style is known as secure attachment, in which people feel comfortable getting close to others and having others get close to them. People who are insecurely attached, on the other hand, might avoid intimacy, become too clingy or desire closeness but feel uncomfortable trusting others.

Finally, the students answered questions about their coping strategies — defense mechanisms people use when they face unpleasant or scary situations. Defense mechanisms can be healthy ("mature" or unhealthy ("immature". A mature defense, for example, might include regulating one's emotions and not depending on others for validation. Immature defense mechanisms might include impulsive actions, passive aggression or denial of a problem.

Homophobia and anger

Overall, the better the mental health of the person (based on the responses to the questionnaire), the less likely he or she was to be homophobic, the researchers found. People with "fearful-avoidant" attachment styles, who tend to feel uncomfortable in close relationships with others, were significantly more homophobic than those who were secure with close relationships. The researchers also found that people with higher levels of immature defense mechanisms were more homophobic than those with mature defense mechanisms.

High levels of hostility and anger, measured as psychoticism, were also linked to homophobia, the researchers found.

But other mental health issues had the opposite association: Depression and neurotic defense mechanisms (like hypochondria or repression) were both linked with lower levels of homophobia.

The findings position homophobia as a trait more often seen in dysfunctional personalities, but personality isn't the whole story. Homophobia is a "culture-induced disease," Jannini said, so personality traits probably interplay with factors like religion and conservative values. The researchers are currently expanding the study to students in Albania, Jannini said. They're also studying how the fear of not being "man enough" might influence homophobic attitudes.

The medical association needs psychological intervention. Because how can anyone see a homosexual and call the person sane irrespective of his/her gender assignment .

Una go just dey find medical theories to support una mental illness which is homosexuality.

Olasyke:
Una go just dey find medical theories to support una mental illness which is homosexuality.

a mad man doesn't know that he is mad and believe he is normal irrespective of his madness

Even as the thread reaveled the factual truth about homophobia as a mental disorder you will still find a way to validate the stance of the OP with your dementia

Umbrateeth04:
a mad man doesn't know that he is mad and believe he is normal irrespective of his madness

Even as the thread reaveled the factual truth about homophobia as a mental disorder you will still find a way to validate the stance of the OP with your dementia

wow, you're quite right about that. I didn't bother reading the article though, I just jumped to commenting.

Jashub:
The medical association needs psychological intervention. Because how can anyone see a homosexual and call the person sane irrespective of his/her gender assignment .

how can a sane person see a Homophobe as someone that is normal irrespective of their sexual orientation

Umbrateeth04:
how can a sane person see a Homophobe as someone that is normal irrespective of their sexual orientation

Nature tells me I am a man , and it has assigned male organs and hormones to me.

So it is normal and logical to follow this pattern assigned by nature. But those of you preaching sexual orientation are in completel delusion because you claim to be what you are not .

Op you are 100percent correct

Homophobia is a serious mental disorder

This are the list of psychological issues in which Homophobes suffer from
1.Anxiety disorders, including panic disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and phobias.
Depression, bipolar disorder, and other mood disorders.
2.Personality disorders.
3.Post-traumatic stress disorder.
4.Psychotic disorders, including schizophrenia.

If you're not hurt by homophobia you won't create topics like this

AntiLGBTQ:
If you're not hurt by homophobia you won't create topics like this

I just looked at your profile.

If you are not hurt by homosexuals you won't create topics like this

Infact the OP was factual but you were crying in your thread

Jashub:
Nature tells me I am a man , and it has assigned male organs and hormones to me.

So it is normal and logical to follow this pattern assigned by nature. But those of you preaching sexual orientation are completely delusion because you claim to be what you are not .

so according to your debased mindset what makes you a man is your assigned organs and hormones? I laugh at your foolery

No you are abnormal
You are not following any pattern assigned by nature, you are repressing your gayness

Yes we call most of them the third gender

Don't you get it they are not attracted to their opposite sex.
Just because they have a vagina or penis doesn't make them obligated to marry their opposite sex.

Umbrateeth04:
I just looked at your profile.

If you are not hurt by homosexuals you won't create topics like this

Infact the OP was factual but you were crying in your thread

Proud lgbtq slayer

Umbrateeth04:
so according to your debased mindset what makes you a man is your assigned organs and hormones? I laugh at your foolery

No you are abnormal
You are not following any pattern assigned by nature, you are repressing your gayness

Yes we call most of them the third gender

Don't you get it they are not attracted to their opposite sex.
Just because they have a vagina or penis doesn't make them obligated to marry their opposite sex.

Sorry my dear, but facts do not have emotions. Neither do feelings change the fact that men are men because nature has assigned male organs to them, likewise for women. Those of you following the dictates of "sexual orientation" are having strong delusions

Jashub:
Sorry my dear, but facts do not have emotions. Neither do feelings change the fact that men are men because nature has assigned male organs to them, likewise for women. Those of you following the dictates of "sexual orientation" are having strong delusions

so in your rotten brain you think what makes one a man is having penis and hormones? you are a buffoon

Just because she has a vagina or he has a penis it doesn't mean it is meant for male genitals, or female genitals just because she has ovaries, or he has sperm it doesn't mean she is designed to carry babies fertilized from having sex with a man or he is designed to to impregnate a woman.And just because she is female or because he is male it doesn't mean she is designed or meant for a male or he is designed or meant for a female.
Drop any fantasy about being with a lesbian or a woman being with a gay she Will never ever want you or he will never ever want her.

Umbrateeth04:
so in your rotten brain you think what makes one a man is having penis and hormones? you are a buffoon

Just because she has a vagina or he has a penis it doesn't mean it is meant for male genitals, or female genitals just because she has ovaries, or he has sperm it doesn't mean she is designed to carry babies fertilized from having sex with a man or he is designed to to impregnate a woman.And just because she is female or because he is male it doesn't mean she is designed or meant for a male or he is designed or meant for a female.
Drop any fantasy about being with a lesbian or a woman being with a gay she Will never ever want you or he will never ever want her.

Let us start from the bolded . How do you define a man ? Oya answer

Jashub:
Let us start from the bolded . How do you define a man ? Oya answer

go and make extensive research on that

You have a phone and a brain

Umbrateeth04:
go and make extensive research on that

You have a phone and a brain

I shall take your silence as acceptance to the truth you know, but chose to ignore because of wrong motives

Jashub:
I shall take your silence as acceptance to the truth you know, but chose to ignore because of wrong motives

you are not a nursery school student that I will start giving a detailed explanation of what a man is

As old as you are, you are not even ashamed to ask me that question

moro.n I will take your question as acceptance to the truth I am diverting you too. but you chose to bluff because of being checkmated

Beehive01:
HOMOPHOBIC PEOPLE OFTEN HAVE PSYCHOLOGICAL ISSUES

HOMOPHOBIA
Homophobic attitudes may say a lot about the person who holds them, new research suggests.



A new study of university students in Italy revealed that people who have strongly negative views of gay people also have higher levels of psychoticism and inappropriate coping mechanisms than those who are accepting of homosexuality.

This doesn't mean that homophobic people are psychotic; rather, psychoticism is a personality trait marked by hostility, anger and aggression toward others. But the study does suggest that people who cling to homophobic views have some psychological issues, said lead researcher Emmanuele Jannini, an endocrinologist and medical sexologist at the University of Rome Tor Vergata.

"The study is opening a new research avenue, where the real disease to study is homophobia," Jannini told Live Science. [7 Thoughts That Are Bad for You]

The psychology of homophobia

Earlier research has found homophobia to be a complex subject, with some studies suggesting that people with visceral negative reactions to gays and lesbians often harbor same-sex desires themselves. Other studies, though, contest that idea, and suggest that homophobic people are truly averse to same-sex attraction. Other factors — such as religiosity, sensitivity to disgust, hypermasculinity and misogyny — seem to play a role in anti-gay beliefs, Jannini and his colleagues wrote in an article published Sept. 8 in The Journal of Sexual Medicine.

But no one had ever looked at the mental health or psychopathology of homophobic people. In the new study, the researchers asked 551 Italian university students, ranging in age from 18 to 30, to fill out questionnaires on their levels of homophobia as well as their psychopathology, including levels of depression, anxiety and psychoticism. The homophobia scale required participants to rate how strongly they agreed or disagreed (on a 5-point scale) with 25 statements, such as: Gay people make me nervous; I think homosexual people should not work with children; I tease and make jokes about gay people; and It does not matter to me whether my friends are gay or straight.

The students also answered questions about their attachment style, which categorizes how people approach relationships. The "healthy" attachment style is known as secure attachment, in which people feel comfortable getting close to others and having others get close to them. People who are insecurely attached, on the other hand, might avoid intimacy, become too clingy or desire closeness but feel uncomfortable trusting others.

Finally, the students answered questions about their coping strategies — defense mechanisms people use when they face unpleasant or scary situations. Defense mechanisms can be healthy ("mature" or unhealthy ("immature". A mature defense, for example, might include regulating one's emotions and not depending on others for validation. Immature defense mechanisms might include impulsive actions, passive aggression or denial of a problem.

Homophobia and anger

Overall, the better the mental health of the person (based on the responses to the questionnaire), the less likely he or she was to be homophobic, the researchers found. People with "fearful-avoidant" attachment styles, who tend to feel uncomfortable in close relationships with others, were significantly more homophobic than those who were secure with close relationships. The researchers also found that people with higher levels of immature defense mechanisms were more homophobic than those with mature defense mechanisms.

High levels of hostility and anger, measured as psychoticism, were also linked to homophobia, the researchers found.

But other mental health issues had the opposite association: Depression and neurotic defense mechanisms (like hypochondria or repression) were both linked with lower levels of homophobia.

The findings position homophobia as a trait more often seen in dysfunctional personalities, but personality isn't the whole story. Homophobia is a "culture-induced disease," Jannini said, so personality traits probably interplay with factors like religion and conservative values. The researchers are currently expanding the study to students in Albania, Jannini said. They're also studying how the fear of not being "man enough" might influence homophobic attitudes.

Why have the mods not barred you kinds of group of abominable

Umbrateeth04:
you are not a nursery school student that I will start giving a detailed explanation of what a man is

As old as you are, you are not even ashamed to ask me that question

moro.n I will take your question as acceptance to the truth I am diverting you too. but you chose to bluff because of being checkmated

You are confused and mentally unbalanced for calling yourself what you are not

Jashub:
You are confused and mentally unbalanced for calling yourself what you are not

you are the one that is Confused and Mentally unbalanced to think that penis makes you a man

You are a ret.arded nicoompoop

Umbrateeth04:
you are the one that is Confused and Mentally unbalanced to think that penis makes you a man

You are a ret.arded nicoompoop

Again I ask you : What makes a man a man

Gay oshi

Jashub:
Again I ask you : What makes a man a man

Gay oshi

as old as you are you are not ashamed to ask me that question

Go and return all the school fees your foolish parents wasted on your emptyheaded dot brain

You are just a big for nothing dullard

Beehive01:
HOMOPHOBIC PEOPLE OFTEN HAVE PSYCHOLOGICAL ISSUES

HOMOPHOBIA
Homophobic attitudes may say a lot about the person who holds them, new research suggests.



A new study of university students in Italy revealed that people who have strongly negative views of gay people also have higher levels of psychoticism and inappropriate coping mechanisms than those who are accepting of homosexuality.

This doesn't mean that homophobic people are psychotic; rather, psychoticism is a personality trait marked by hostility, anger and aggression toward others. But the study does suggest that people who cling to homophobic views have some psychological issues, said lead researcher Emmanuele Jannini, an endocrinologist and medical sexologist at the University of Rome Tor Vergata.

"The study is opening a new research avenue, where the real disease to study is homophobia," Jannini told Live Science. [7 Thoughts That Are Bad for You]

The psychology of homophobia

Earlier research has found homophobia to be a complex subject, with some studies suggesting that people with visceral negative reactions to gays and lesbians often harbor same-sex desires themselves. Other studies, though, contest that idea, and suggest that homophobic people are truly averse to same-sex attraction. Other factors — such as religiosity, sensitivity to disgust, hypermasculinity and misogyny — seem to play a role in anti-gay beliefs, Jannini and his colleagues wrote in an article published Sept. 8 in The Journal of Sexual Medicine.

But no one had ever looked at the mental health or psychopathology of homophobic people. In the new study, the researchers asked 551 Italian university students, ranging in age from 18 to 30, to fill out questionnaires on their levels of homophobia as well as their psychopathology, including levels of depression, anxiety and psychoticism. The homophobia scale required participants to rate how strongly they agreed or disagreed (on a 5-point scale) with 25 statements, such as: Gay people make me nervous; I think homosexual people should not work with children; I tease and make jokes about gay people; and It does not matter to me whether my friends are gay or straight.

The students also answered questions about their attachment style, which categorizes how people approach relationships. The "healthy" attachment style is known as secure attachment, in which people feel comfortable getting close to others and having others get close to them. People who are insecurely attached, on the other hand, might avoid intimacy, become too clingy or desire closeness but feel uncomfortable trusting others.

Finally, the students answered questions about their coping strategies — defense mechanisms people use when they face unpleasant or scary situations. Defense mechanisms can be healthy ("mature" or unhealthy ("immature". A mature defense, for example, might include regulating one's emotions and not depending on others for validation. Immature defense mechanisms might include impulsive actions, passive aggression or denial of a problem.

Homophobia and anger

Overall, the better the mental health of the person (based on the responses to the questionnaire), the less likely he or she was to be homophobic, the researchers found. People with "fearful-avoidant" attachment styles, who tend to feel uncomfortable in close relationships with others, were significantly more homophobic than those who were secure with close relationships. The researchers also found that people with higher levels of immature defense mechanisms were more homophobic than those with mature defense mechanisms.

High levels of hostility and anger, measured as psychoticism, were also linked to homophobia, the researchers found.

But other mental health issues had the opposite association: Depression and neurotic defense mechanisms (like hypochondria or repression) were both linked with lower levels of homophobia.

The findings position homophobia as a trait more often seen in dysfunctional personalities, but personality isn't the whole story. Homophobia is a "culture-induced disease," Jannini said, so personality traits probably interplay with factors like religion and conservative values. The researchers are currently expanding the study to students in Albania, Jannini said. They're also studying how the fear of not being "man enough" might influence homophobic attitudes.

Sexual Orientation And Symptoms Of Common Mental Disorder Or Low Wellbeing:

Umbrateeth04:
as old as you are you are not ashamed to ask me that question

Go and return all the school fees your foolish parents wasted on your emptyheaded dot brain

You are just a big for nothing dullard

Okay, let me rephrase the question : What makes a woman a woman

Gay oshi

Jashub:
Okay, let me rephrase the question : What makes a woman a woman

Gay oshi

what makes your anus your anus?

Heterosexual oshi

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