CHAPTER 6
                    LIMITATIONS ANDJ RECOMMENDATIONS

     There are several features of this study that could benefit from refinement in the future. The first is unidimensionality of the gender role scale. Gender role ideologies were operationalized by considering attitudes about the equality of women. Ideals of gender and sex roles span much further than attitudes about women. Ideally, a scale of gender role attitudes would encompass many dimensions that gender role ideologies are demonstrated through (e.g., childrearing responsibilities, housework, attitudes about men, attitudes about how to raise children, attitudes toward gender neutrality). Additionally, the questions forming the homonegativity scale do not specify the gender of the "homosexual" being described in addition to being rather one-dimensional. As discussed, attitudes toward lesbians versus gays are not universal. It secondly omits bisexual individuals along with transgender and inter-sexed individuals. There is substantial research indicating that attitudes and behaviors may not necessarily match up. Additionally, there is the stipulation that just because individuals may not agree with homosexuality does not mean they would deny homosexuals equal rights. And although both scales used do represent an array of questions, variability in the scales boarder what a truly quantitative variable should be. Hence there may be some question as to whether Ordinary Least Squares methodology was best used for the Mulivariate analysis. Nonetheless, univariate analysis did provide relatively strong support that the variables and scales used do approximate normal distributions.