Trust in science, homonegativity, and HIV stigma: experimental data from the United Kingdom and Germany.

Jaspal, R, Gardner, S ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3443-7844, Zwach, P, Green, M and Breakwell, GM, 2022. Trust in science, homonegativity, and HIV stigma: experimental data from the United Kingdom and Germany. Stigma and Health. ISSN 2376-6972

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Abstract

HIV stigma and its corollary HIV fear constitute significant barriers to HIV prevention. This quasi-experimental study examined social psychological predictors of HIV stigma and HIV fear, respectively, based on data from 516 participants in the United Kingdom and Germany. Participants completed baseline measures of HIV knowledge, trust in science and scientists and homonegativity. They were then randomly assigned to one of three experimental conditions with vignettes describing (1) a gay man with HIV, (2) a heterosexual man with HIV, or (3) the control condition. Participants completed post-manipulation measures of HIV stigma and HIV fear. HIV knowledge and trust in science and scientists were negatively associated with HIV stigma and fear. Baseline homonegativity was positively correlated with HIV stigma and fear. Being exposed to a vignette describing a heterosexual man led to less HIV stigma than being exposed to a vignette describing a gay man and the control condition (in which no sexual orientation was explicitly mentioned). The results suggest that, in addition to promoting HIV knowledge and trust in science and scientists, public health messaging concerning HIV should shift from a focus on gay men to heterosexuals and that homonegativity (higher in men) must continue to be tackled.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	Stigma and Health
Creators:	Jaspal, R., Gardner, S., Zwach, P., Green, M. and Breakwell, G.M.
Publisher:	American Psychological Association (APA)
Date:	4 August 2022
ISSN:	2376-6972
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1037/sah0000401 DOI 1590115 Other
Rights:	©American Psychological Association, 2022. This paper is not the copy of record and may not exactly replicate the authoritative document published in the APA journal. The final article is available, upon publication, at: https://doi.org/10.1037/sah0000401
Divisions:	Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by:	Laura Ward
Date Added:	27 Sep 2022 14:47
Last Modified:	27 Sep 2022 14:47
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/47145

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