Attitude of Students and Teachers toward Sex Education in University Life

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.