Representations and communications about HIV/aids prevention in ordinary popular environment

Authors

  • Edson Alves de Souza Filho UFRJ
  • Angel Beldarrain-Durandegui

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/psi.v15i2.16234

Keywords:

social representations, HIV/aids prevention, sexual identity

Abstract

 

We aimed at verifying correspondences between sexual identity, sexual and preventive practices, including means of persuasion used to talk the sexual partner into using condoms. Questionnaires revolving around these questions were applied in public schools of Brasilia. We analyzed answers in the light of the social representations’ approach. Participants in the research were 291 youngsters. When describing themselves in terms of sexual identity, married women tended to underline mainly social norms, whereas single women mentioned more sexual practices. Threat to force the use of condoms was more drawn upon among single people, while single women also used seduction. Finally, single women also deployed imposition more often than married women, but single men used this form twice as often (14,64%).

Keywords: social representations; HIV/aids prevention; sexual identity.

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de Souza Filho, E. A., & Beldarrain-Durandegui, A. (2011). Representations and communications about HIV/aids prevention in ordinary popular environment. Interação Em Psicologia, 15(2). https://doi.org/10.5380/psi.v15i2.16234

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Vol. 15 No. 2 (2011)

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