Community Norms About Suppression of AIDS-Related Prejudice and Perceptions of Stigma by People With HIV or AIDS

We investigated the relationship between community motivations to control AIDS-related prejudice and the experience of stigma by community members with HIV or AIDS, using self-reports from 203 New England residents with HIV or AIDS and 2,444 randomly selected residents of the same New England commun...

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Published in:Psychological science 2011-05, Vol.22 (5), p.579-583
Main Authors: Miller, Carol T., Grover, Kristin W., Bunn, Janice Yanushka, Solomon, Sondra E.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome - psychology
Adult
AIDS
Attitudes
Communities
Community
Community power
Discrimination
Female
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
HIV
HIV Infections - psychology
Human immunodeficiency virus
Humans
Interpersonal Relations
Male
Motivation
Motivational internalism
New England
Norms
Personal control
Prejudice
Prejudices
Regression analysis
Research Report
Residence Characteristics
Retirement communities
Social interaction
Social Perception
Social pressure
Social psychology
Social stigma
Social Values
Stereotypes
Stereotyping
Stigma
United Kingdom
Values
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Summary:We investigated the relationship between community motivations to control AIDS-related prejudice and the experience of stigma by community members with HIV or AIDS, using self-reports from 203 New England residents with HIV or AIDS and 2,444 randomly selected residents of the same New England communities. Multilevel regression analyses revealed that the disclosure concerns of participants with HIV or AIDS were lower in communities where residents were motivated by personal values to control AIDS-related prejudice, and were higher in communities where residents were motivated by social pressure to control AIDS-related prejudice. Reported experiences with discrimination and exclusion were unrelated to community motivations. The results of our study suggest that external and internal pressures to control prejudice shape the experience of stigmatization.
ISSN:0956-7976
1467-9280
DOI:10.1177/0956797611404898