The role of personal contact with HIV-infected people in explaining urban, African American preadolescents' attitudes toward peers with HIV/AIDS

Miriam Schiff; Mary McKay; Carl Bell; Donna Baptiste; Sybil Madison; Roberta Paikoff

doi:10.1037/0002-9432.73.1.101

The role of personal contact with HIV-infected people in explaining urban, African American preadolescents' attitudes toward peers with HIV/AIDS

Miriam Schiff, Mary McKay^*, Carl Bell, Donna Baptiste, Sybil Madison, Roberta Paikoff

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The Family Institute at Northwestern University

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This article presents the results of a study aimed at describing African American youths' attitudes toward peers with HIV/AIDS and identifying correlates of these attitudes based on the contact theory. Baseline data from a sample of African American, urban mothers and their youth (n = 197) participating in a family-based HIV prevention program were analyzed. In support of contact theory, preadolescents' close relationship to persons infected with HIV/AIDS was highly related to their attitudes. However, no relationship was found between maternal attitudes or communication variables and youth attitudes. The implications of youths' experience with persons with HIV/AIDS as part of prevention programming are discussed.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	101-108
Number of pages	8
Journal	American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
Volume	73
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1037/0002-9432.73.1.101
State	Published - Jan 2003

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