APS
2026 APS Annual Convention · 2026
The Cascading Effects of Gender Essentialism: Political Conservatism Moderates the Social Dominance Orientation-Prejudice Pathway within a Turkish Gen Z Sample
- Sila Yurtseven
University of Padua - Fatma Sude Yaykiran
Bielefeld University - Yağmur Kaya
Queer Psy Force - İlkan Can İpekçi
Sabancı University
Abstract
This study investigated how Social Dominance Orientation predicts negative attitudes toward lesbian and gay individuals in Turkish Gen Z (N=229). Using validated scales and moderated mediation analysis, SDO was found to drive negative attitudes through gender essentialist beliefs and to be intensified by having a conservative political identity.
