학술논문
Effect of national cultural dimensions and HIV prevalence rates on stigma towards people living with HIV/AIDS.
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Article
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Subject
*HIV infection epidemiology
*CULTURE
*RESEARCH
*PSYCHOLOGY of AIDS patients
*PRACTICAL politics
*SOCIAL stigma
*COMMUNITIES
*DESCRIPTIVE statistics
*STATISTICAL correlation
*SOCIAL attitudes
*PSYCHOLOGY of HIV-positive persons
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ISSN
1354-8506
Abstract
This paper examines the main and interactive effects of national culture dimensions and HIV prevalence rates on stigma towards people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIVA). We examined these various relationships using data from a sample of 68,041 individuals from 49 countries, obtained from the World Values Survey. We used Hierarchical Linear Modeling to conduct our cross-level analyses. Our results indicated that collectivistic societies were positively associated while egalitarian and performance-oriented societies were negatively associated with stigma towards PLHIVA. Additionally, HIV prevalence rates interact with several cultural dimensions to worsen stigma towards PLHIVA. Our findings indicate the need to tailor stigma reduction strategies by taking the national culture dimensions of a given society into consideration when designing and implementing programs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]