A Preliminary Examination of Sexual Orientation as a Social Vulnerability for Experiencing HIV-/AIDS-Related Stigma1

Gonzalez, Adam; Weibust, Kristin S.; Miller, Carol T.; Solomon, Samuel

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“… 1 Descriptive statistics for these measures also appear in papers on the psychometrics of the scale (Bunn et al, 2007), and on the role of community size (Gonzalez, Miller, Solomon, & Bunn & Cassidy, 2009) and participant sexual orientation (Gonzalez, Grover, Miller, & Solomon, 2010) in the perception of stigma. The statistics reported here differ slightly from these reports due to patterns of missing data.…”

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“… 2. Descriptive statistics for the measures of stigma and motivation to control prejudice have appeared in publications about the psychometrics of the HIV Stigma Scale (Bunn et al, 2007), the role of community size in motivation to control prejudice (Bunn et al, 2008), and the role of community size (Gonzalez, Miller, Solomon, Bunn, & Cassidy, 2009) and participants’ sexual orientation (Gonzalez, Grover, Miller, & Solomon, in press) in the perception of AIDS-related stigma. …”

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

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We investigated the relationship between reports by 203 people with HIV/AIDS in New England communities about their experiences with stigma and reports by 2,444 randomly selected residents of those same communities about their motivation to control HIV/AIDS prejudice. Multi-level regression analyses revealed that the disclosure concerns of participants with HIV/AIDS were lower in communities in which residents were motivated by personal values to control HIV/AIDS prejudice, and were higher in communities in which residents were motivated by social pressure to control HIV/AIDS prejudice. Reported experiences with discrimination and exclusion were unrelated to these community motivations. These results suggest that the realities of the communities in which stigmatized people live shape their perceptions of stigmatization.

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“…HIV disproportionately affects already highly stigmatized, at-risk groups (e.g., injection drug users, racial and sexual minorities). 4 In addition, traditionally nonstigmatized groups (e.g., heterosexual men) with HIV actually perceive greater HIV stigma than sexual minorities with HIV, 13 perhaps due to the association of HIV with already stigmatized groups (e.g., men who have sex with men). Being HIV positive is predictive of being subjected to antigay discrimination or violence, which in turn, is associated with increased suicidal ideation.…”

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Suicidality and Anxiety Sensitivity in Adults with HIV

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Suicide rates among HIV-positive individuals are more than three times higher than in the general population. Anxiety sensitivity (AS) may be clinically relevant to increasing our understanding of suicide among individuals with HIV. Specifically, relations between AS cognitive concerns and suicide related outcomes have been observed across a range of populations. The current investigation sought to examine the effect of AS and individual AS subfactors (i.e., cognitive, physical, and social concerns) in relation to suicidality in a sample of adults with HIV. Participants were 164 adults with HIV (17.1% women; mean age=48.40) recruited from AIDS service organizations in Vermont/New Hampshire and New York City. Findings from the current study indicate that AS cognitive concerns (β=0.46, p=0.001), but not the global AS factor, are positively associated with elevated rates of suicidality among persons with HIV above and beyond demographics, HIV relevant factors, and negative affectivity. There was also a negative trend for AS physical concerns in terms of suicidality (β=-0.25, p=0.07). Clinicians may benefit from implementing AS reduction strategies with HIV-positive persons who endorse elevated suicide risk as well as elevated AS cognitive concerns. The current study is limited by a cross-sectional design and lack of suicide attempt history. Future work would benefit from longitudinal examination of the observed relations, further inquiry regarding the relation between AS physical concerns and suicidality and a more comprehensive assessment of suicidality.

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“…Contrary to many people’s belief, in some societies, heterosexual people with HIV may experience more stigma (Brener, Wilson, Slavin, & De Wit, 2013 ) and perceive that they have lower priority for social services than those who are MSM (Antoniou, Loutfy, Glazier, & Strike, 2012 ). Studies have also shown that heterosexual men with HIV reported more concerns over disclosure of their HIV status than their MSM counterparts (Gonzalez, Grover, Miller, & Solomon, 2011 ). More specific to Singapore, being Chinese, single, non-professional, middle-aged, and heterosexual has been associated with late presentation for diagnosis in Singapore (Tey et al, 2012 ).…”

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How HIV patients construct liveable identities in a shame based culture: the case of Singapore

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International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well

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This article interrogates the mainstream healthcare narrative that frames human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as a chronic disease, and triangulates it with the lived experiences of people with HIV in Singapore. It also examines how HIV patients reconstruct their identities after the diagnosis of HIV. Four HIV patients (two males and two females) were interviewed in depth by an experienced medical social worker. Findings revealed that even as the illness trajectory of HIV has shifted from a terminal condition to a chronic one, living with HIV continues to be fraught with difficulty as society, especially in the Asian context, perceives HIV with much fear and disapproval. The participants had an overwhelming sense of shame when they were initially diagnosed with HIV and they had to reconstruct a liveable identity by containing the shroud of shame, reinforcing their normative identities and constructing new ones. These strategies help them to keep their shame at bay. This paper also unpacks nuanced insights of shame experienced by Chinese HIV patients in an Asian city dominated by Confucian values.

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A Preliminary Examination of Sexual Orientation as a Social Vulnerability for Experiencing HIV-/AIDS-Related Stigma1

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

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

Suicidality and Anxiety Sensitivity in Adults with HIV

How HIV patients construct liveable identities in a shame based culture: the case of Singapore

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