Abstract:
The present study investigated the difference of attitudes of students and teachers toward
Sex Education in University Students. The hypotheses of this study were that there will be
significant difference in attitude of teachers and students toward Sex Education, there will be
significant gender difference in students attitude toward Sex Education, there will be significant
gender difference in teachers attitude toward Sex Education, there will be significant difference
in opinionnaire of teachers and students toward Sex Education. Two scales namely Attitude
toward Sex Education (Donna & Malsawmi, 2015), Opinionnaire toward Sex Education (Donna
& Malsawmi, 2015) were used in the research to test main hypotheses. The sample of the study
for final analysis was 213 with distribution of students men 59 (47.6) and 65 (52.4) women
participants similarly, teachers men 39 (43.8) and 50 (56.2) women participants. The mean age
of the student sample was (M = 22.6) and (SD = .490) and teachers’ sample was (M =38.8) and
(SD = .511). Finding indicated that the insignificant differences in teachers and student’s attitude
towards sex education. Both teachers and students want sex education to be the part of
university education. Students Both men and women take sex education as an important element
of university education. Similarly, men and women teachers’ results are also insignificant both
are equally in favor of making sex education part of the university education but women teacher
show a higher interest in making sex education part of the university education shown by their
higher mean. The results of the study were discussed in the cultural context of Pakistan and
existing literature.
