Attitudes of Polish Adults to School Sexuality Education vs. Their Opinions About Issues Related to Sexuality

Sexuality education in Polish schools arouses many controversy and mutually exclusive opinions in the society. This paper presents the results of the questionnaire survey conducted in 2020 on a representative sample of 3,000 adult Poles. Sexuality education attitude was analysed with two questions used earlier in our own research. Four sexuality education attitudes (SEA) were distinguished. The following characteristics of the respondents were taken into account: gender, age, place of residence, education level, living in a formal or informal relationship, having children and attitude towards religion. Adjusted standardized residuals (ASR) were analysed. As the measure of the power of correlation between the surveyed factors and the SEA group status the Cramér’s V was assumed for nominal features. The SEA groups were compared with the use of Kruskal-Wallis nonparametric test together with the analysis of multiple comparisons (post hoc). Strong relations of school sexuality education attitude with demographic and social factors were demonstrated, where the place of residence was the only non-differentiating factor. The strongest was the relation with the attitude to religion, gender and education. In order to plan and implement effectively educational school curricula related to sexuality, it is important to understand these determinants.