A Social-Psychological Analysis of HIV-Related Stigma : A Two-Factor Theory  

Oleh:

Pryor, John B. ; Reeder, Glenn D. ; Landau, Steven

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: American Behavioral Scientist vol. 42 no. 07 (Apr. 1999), page 1913-1211.
Topik: HIV; AIDS; HIV Stigma
Fulltext: 10. A Social-Psychological Analysis of HIV-Related Stigma - A Two-Factor Theory.pdf (1.94MB)

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Despite the best efforts of public health agencies, HIV/AIDS continues to carry a significant stigma in the general population. Research indicates that people's negative reactions toper-sons with AIDS (PWAs) are due to their relatively automatic reactions to a disease that has become associated with death, promiscuity, drugs, and homosexuality. There is also evidence that more controlled or effortful information processing influences how people respond to PWAs. A model of HIV-related stigma is developed that assumes psychological reactions to stigmatized persons are governed by a primarily associative and a rule-based system, and that there is a temporal pattern such that initial reactions are governed by the associative system whereas subsequent reactions are governed by the rule-based system. Because associations to PWAs often are negative, relatively automatic reactions tend to be negative; however, ifperceivers have enough time, motivation, and cognitive resources, they may adjust their initial reactions in a more positive direction. This theoretical model has general implications for understanding how any perceived stigma influences social cognition processes

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