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Nwafor, J. C., Philip, O. P., Onyemaechi, C. I..

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The study examined the influence of parental care and religious devotion on the anxiety experiences and attitudes towards homosexuality of seminarians in Anambra State. Participants comprised two hundred and seven (207) seminarians in Anambra State selected using a simple random sampling technique. The ages of the participants ranged from 14 to 18 years, with a mean age of 14.86 and a standard deviation of.99. Four instruments were used in this study: The Parental Care Inventory by Parker, Tupling, and Brown (1979), the Religious Affiliation Scale (RAS) by Omoluabi (1995), the Symptom Distress Checklist 90 (SCL-90) developed by Derogatis, Lipman, and Covi (1977), and the Homosexuality Attitude Scale (HAS) developed by Kite and Deaux (1986). A correlational survey design was employed in this study, which made use of the Pearson moment correctional coefficient as the statistical tool. The result showed that parental care has a significant negative relationship with the anxiety experiences of seminarians (r = -.18, p.010), parental care has no significant relationship with the attitude towards homosexuality of seminarians (r =.11, p >.104), religious devotion has no significant relationship with the anxiety experiences of seminarians (r =.11, p >.101), and religious devotion has a significant positive relationship with the attitude towards homosexuality of seminarians (r =.31, p.000). Following these results, the implications of the study were examined, the limitations of the study were highlighted, recommendations were made, and suggestions for further studies were proposed.

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