fundamentalism and age. The homonegative scale had a positive moderate correlation with the gender role scale supporting the first hypothesis that individuals expressing traditional gender role ideologies were also more homonegative (r = 0.48, p < 0.01). The homonegative scale also had positive weak correlations with age and political ideology (r = 0.26, p < 0.01, and r = 0.22, p < 0.01 respectively), supporting expected relationships between both older individuals displaying more homonegativity and politically conservative individuals expressing more homonegativity. Additionally, there was a moderate negative correlation between respondent's education and reported homonegativity (r = -0.41, p < 0.01) supporting that individuals with a higher education will report less homonegativity. Further, there is weak negative correlation between the homonegative scale and religious fundamentalism (r = -0.295, p < 0.01), supporting that religiously liberal individuals report less homonegativity. Noteworthy is the substantial correlation between the homonegative scale and the gender role scale (r = 0.48, p < 0.01). Finally, correlations among independent variables, although significant, were relatively weak ruling out possible multicolinearity (Table 4-3).

     Because the focus of this project ascertains the relationship between homonegative attitudes and gender role ideologies, correlations by year were assessed between the two scales (Table 4-4). Overall, the strength and direction of the relationship is relatively consistent. There is a slight dip in the strength of the correlation in 1989 (r1989 = 0.34), however not a substantial drop. Nonetheless, the strength of the relationships between the scales was at its highest point a year prior (r1988 = 0.55).