Ross M W, Hunter C E
Department of Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Australia.
AIDS Care. 1991;3(2):175-80. doi: 10.1080/09540129108253060.
We examined the structure of the Fear of AIDS Schedule (FAIDSS) in a sample of 134 health care workers. Factor analysis indicated that there were five discrete dimension of fear of AIDS: fears of loss of control, of sex, of HIV infection through blood and illness, of death and medical interventions, and of contact with outsiders. These dimensions had low to moderate intercorrelations. The dimensions of fear of HIV infection through blood or illness, was significantly correlated with desired personal social distance from people with AIDS, and this dimension along with fear of death and medical interventions were correlated with desired public social distance. Fear of infection through blood and illness were predictors of both desired personal social distance and public social distance from people with HIV infection. The data suggest greater discrimination of AIDS fears with greater closeness of interaction with people with HIV disease, and that these dimensions of the FAIDSS are both reliable and valid measures of AIDS fears.
我们在134名医护人员的样本中研究了艾滋病恐惧量表（FAIDSS）的结构。因素分析表明，对艾滋病的恐惧有五个不同的维度：对失去控制的恐惧、对性的恐惧、对通过血液和疾病感染艾滋病毒的恐惧、对死亡和医疗干预的恐惧以及对外界接触的恐惧。这些维度之间的相互关联程度较低到中等。对通过血液或疾病感染艾滋病毒的恐惧维度与希望与艾滋病患者保持的个人社交距离显著相关，并且这个维度与对死亡和医疗干预的恐惧一起与希望保持的公共社交距离相关。对通过血液和疾病感染的恐惧是希望与艾滋病毒感染者保持的个人社交距离和公共社交距离的预测因素。数据表明，与艾滋病毒感染者互动越密切，对艾滋病恐惧的区分度就越高，并且FAIDSS的这些维度是艾滋病恐惧的可靠且有效的测量指标。
