Perkel A K
Department of Psychology, University of Western Cape, Bellville, Republic of South Africa.
Psychol Rep. 1992 Dec;71(3 Pt 1):767-78. doi: 10.2466/pr0.1992.71.3.767.
The dramatic spread of AIDS globally has placed it high on the world health agenda. Since no medical or technological solution to the problem is near at hand and given the fact that the HIV virus is heavily reliant on human sexual behaviours for transmission, tackling the problem of AIDS rests on addressing change of sexual behaviour. Various psychosocial factors have been implicated as mediating between adequate knowledge and behaviour change, given the poor correlation between the two variables. The present study was aimed at developing and testing a scale to measure various psychosocial factors, including self-concept, defenses of denial, repression and rationalisation, peer pressure, and perceived empowerment expressed in locus of control and self-efficacy. Two studies are reported in which students at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa participated. Various statistical analyses in the two phases indicated that the AIDS Psychosocial Scale was sufficiently reliable and valid for use in examining psychosocial mediation in the AIDS area.
艾滋病在全球的迅猛传播使其在世界卫生议程上占据了重要位置。由于目前尚未找到解决该问题的医学或技术方案，且鉴于艾滋病毒在很大程度上依赖人类性行为进行传播，解决艾滋病问题取决于改变性行为。鉴于知识与行为改变之间的相关性较差，各种社会心理因素被认为在足够的知识与行为改变之间起中介作用。本研究旨在开发并测试一个量表，以测量各种社会心理因素，包括自我概念、否认、压抑和合理化防御机制、同伴压力，以及在控制点和自我效能感中体现的感知赋权。报告了两项研究，南非西开普大学的学生参与了这两项研究。两个阶段的各种统计分析表明，艾滋病社会心理量表在用于检验艾滋病领域的社会心理中介作用方面具有足够的可靠性和有效性。
