THE OPINIONS OF HETEROSEXUAL EMPLOYEES IN PRIVATE SECTOR AND HETEROSEXUAL OFFICIALS IN BANGKOK METROPOLITAN AREA IN SUPPORTING THE LEGAL RIGHT OF THEIR GENDER DIVERSITY COLLEAGUES TO REGISTER THEIR MARRIAGE ACCORDING TO THE CIVIL PARTNERSHIP BILL
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The Civil Partnership Bill is aimed to allow anyone to be legally married even though their spouse’s gender may be different from the traditionally accepted one; so non-traditional couples can have the same rights, being equal in the eyes of the law, which has a big impact on all types of the organization. The findings of this research indicate that most of heterosexual employees in the private sector and heterosexual government officials in Bangkok Metropolitan area express their high level intention to support the legal right of the heterosexual colleagues to legally register their marriage from the influences of two independent variables, namely, the variable of attitude toward supporting the legal right of their gender diversity colleagues to legally register their marriage according to the Civil Partnership Bill, and the variable of complying with the social norm, the influence from the perceived behavioral control variable. Therefore, it can be inferred that the Civil Partnership Bill may only enable the heterosexual group of people to express their positive attitude toward supporting the legal right of their gender diversity colleagues to legally register their marriage but still has no effect in practice. The summarized relationship equation is as follows: Supporting the legal right of gender diversity colleagues to legally register their marriage = 2.372 + 0.789 (complying with the social norm) –0.273 (attitude toward the Civil Partnership Bill), the predicting power of which is about 13.50 percent.
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