Structural Equation Modeling of Social Adjustment Based on the Dimensions of Health Control and Attitudes toward Homosexuality Mediated by Attributional Styles in Gay Men

Background: a considerable part of homosexual men's tensions and inconsistencies can be explained by anti-homosexual social attitudes.objectives: the present study aimed to determine the structural equation modeling of the relationship of attitudes toward homosexuality and locus of control with social adjustment in gay men by the mediating role of attributional styles.methods: the present study was conducted based on structural equation modeling. the statistical population of this study consisted of all gay and bisexual men in tehran in 2019. the participants were selected via snowball sampling method considering the probability of sample attrition. the research tools included the social adjustment scale (1976), multifaceted health lodging scale (1976), attributional style questionnaire developed by peterson et al. (1982), and researcher-made attitude to homosexuality questionnaire (2018). in this study, the structural equation modeling method was used to analyze the data in spss software (version 22) and amos software version (24.0). results: the direct path coefficient between attitude to homosexuality (p<0.05; β=0.279), locus of control (p<0.05; β=0.237), attributional styles (p<0.01; β=-0.390), attitude to homosexuality (p<0.01; β=0.136) and social adjustment were significant. the indirect path coefficient between control location and social adjustment was positive and significant at the level of 0.05 (p<0.05; β=0.123).conclusion: as evidenced by the obtained results, it can be concluded that attributional styles mediate the relationship between the locus of control and social adjustment in homosexual men.