LeRoux-Rutledge Emily, Guerlain Madeleine A, Andersen Louise B, Madanhire Claudius, Mutsikiwa Alice, Nyamukapa Constance, Skovdal Morten, Gregson Simon, Campbell Catherine
a Department of Social Psychology , The London School of Economics and Political Science , UK.
b Biomedical Research and Training Institute , Zimbabwe.
AIDS Care. 2015;27(11):1367-74. doi: 10.1080/09540121.2015.1093592. Epub 2015 Nov 29.
This study examines whether children in rural Zimbabwe have differing representations of their HIV/AIDS-affected peers based on the gender of those peers. A group of 128 children (58 boys, 70 girls) aged 10-14 participated in a draw-and-write exercise, in which they were asked to tell the story of either an HIV/AIDS-affected girl child, or an HIV/AIDS-affected boy child. Stories were inductively thematically coded, and then a post hoc statistical analysis was conducted to see if there were differences in the themes that emerged in stories about girls versus stories about boys. The results showed that boys were more often depicted as materially deprived, without adult and teacher support, and heavily burdened with household duties. Further research is needed to determine whether the perceptions of the children in this study point to a series of overlooked challenges facing HIV/AIDS-affected boys, or to a culture of gender inequality facing HIV/AIDS-affected girls - which pays more attention to male suffering than to female suffering.
本研究考察了津巴布韦农村地区的儿童对感染艾滋病毒/艾滋病的同龄人的认知是否因这些同龄人的性别而有所不同。128名年龄在10至14岁之间的儿童（58名男孩，70名女孩）参与了一项绘画写作活动，活动要求他们讲述一个感染艾滋病毒/艾滋病的女童或男童的故事。对故事进行归纳主题编码，然后进行事后统计分析，以查看关于女孩的故事和关于男孩的故事中出现的主题是否存在差异。结果显示，男孩更多地被描绘为物质匮乏、缺乏成人和教师支持且家务负担沉重。需要进一步研究以确定本研究中儿童的认知是指向感染艾滋病毒/艾滋病的男孩面临的一系列被忽视的挑战，还是指向感染艾滋病毒/艾滋病的女孩面临的性别不平等文化——这种文化更关注男性的苦难而非女性的苦难。
