Prejudice against Homosexuality and Locus of Control

The purpose of the study was to explore the relationship between prejudice against homosexuality,internal-external locus of control, sex differences and social contact. A total of 198 university studentsfrom various Turkish universities participated in this study. The mean age of the participants was 21.14(SD = 2.38). The participants filled Hudson and Ricketts’ 25-item Attitudes toward Homosexuality Scale,Internal-External Locus of Control Scale, and demographic variables including sex differences, socialcontact and age. The prejudice against homosexuality were only correlated with the sub-factors of externallocus of control namely belief in fate, meaninglessness of effortfulness, and belief in chance. The performedANOVA presented that the main effects of the level of external locus of control, sex differences, and socialcontact were only statistically significant, but there were no interactions between them. Regression analysisshowed that belief in fate was the only significant predictor of the prejudice against homosexuality