From: Stigmatizing attitudes towards people living with HIV/AIDS: validation of a measurement scale
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Prejudices (affects) | 1.Being around someone who has AIDS does not bother me. |
2.I would not be worried for my health if a co-worker had AIDS. | |
3.It would not bother me if there was a boarding house for people with AIDS on my street. | |
21.I would quit my job before I would work with a person who is infected by the AIDS virus. | |
23.If I had a roommate and discovered he was infected with the AIDS virus, it would not bother me. | |
Prejudices (affects) | 4. - I could not be friends with someone who has AIDS. |
5. - I would limit my contact with a person whom I know is infected with AIDS. | |
6. - I would not hug someone with AIDS. | |
Stereotyping (cognitions) | 7. - People who use injectable drugs deserve to have AIDS. |
8. - My support for a person living with AIDS depends on how the person was infected. | |
9. - I am disgusted by persons who were infected during homosexual relations. | |
17. - People who are infected with the AIDS virus because they have not used a condom deserve what they get. | |
29. - People with AIDS have only themselves to blame. | |
39. - Most people with AIDS are responsible for having their illness. | |
Values | 10. - To fight AIDS, it is necessary that young people not have sex. |
11. - Reinforcement of traditional sexual values will help to control AIDS. | |
12. - The arrival of AIDS is linked to the fact that people have more sexual freedom. | |
13. - The spread of AIDS is linked to the decline of moral values. | |
Discrimination (actions) | 14.People who have AIDS should have the right to work serving the public, as waiters-waitresses, cooks, hairdressers. |
15.Children who are infected with the aids virus should be able to go to day-care. | |
16.Doctors with AIDS should be allowed to go on working with their patients. | |
19.People infected with the aids virus should be allowed to immigrate to Canada. | |
24.Women who know they are infected with the AIDS virus have the right to have children. | |
28.People who are infected with the AIDS virus have the right to have a love life. | |
35.People with AIDS have the right to be sexually active. | |
Discrimination (actions) | 18.A doctor should have the right to warn the sexual partners of a person who has the AIDS virus if that person refuses to do so. |
22.If my partner has the AIDS virus, I should be warned, even without his or her permission. | |
27. - I have the right to know if someone around me is infected with the AIDS virus. | |
32.When a screening test indicates that someone is infected with the AIDS virus, the result should remain confidential. | |
38.People infected with the AIDS virus should inform their sexual partners. | |
41. - Doctors should report the names of people with AIDS to the government. | |
Discrimination (actions) | 20.It is criminal for a person who knows that he or she is infected with the AIDS virus not to use a condom. |
26. - Transmitting the AIDS virus should be punishable by law. | |
31. - People who know they are infected with the AIDS virus and who transmit the virus are criminals. | |
34. - Transmitting the AIDS virus is a crime. | |
37.People who know they are infected with the AIDS virus and share their needles with other people should be punished under the law. | |
40.Transmitting the AIDS virus is a crime only if done so intentionally. | |
Prejudices (affects) | 25.I am disgusted by people who have the AIDS virus. |
30.I feel compassion for people infected with the AIDS virus. | |
33.People who are infected with the AIDS virus are disgusting. | |
36.I feel afraid of people with AIDS. | |
42.I feel sympathetic towards people who are infected with the AIDS virus. |