Korean social work students' attitudes toward homosexuals

For this article, the Hudson and Ricketts Index of Attitudes toward Homosex uality (IAH) was used to measure levels of homophobia in a convenience samp le of 124 students enrolled in social work programs in two major universiti es in the Republic of South Korea. The results indicated that BSW and MSW K orean students had high levels of homophobia, particularly in comparison to U.S. samples. In-class discussion of homosexuality was found to be signifi cantly associated with lower levels of homophobia. The authors review these and other research findings and discuss implications for social work educa tion in South Korea and the United States.