From: Stigmatizing attitudes towards people living with HIV/AIDS: validation of a measurement scale
Item no. | Â | Regression coefficients* | Error variance | ||||||
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Item description | F1 | F2 | F3 | F4 | F5 | F6 | F7 | ||
 | F1: Concerns about occasional encounters |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
1 | Being around someone who has AIDS does not bother me. | .983 | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | .034 |
2 | I would not be worried for my health if a co-worker had AIDS. | .935 | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | .126 |
3 | It would not bother me if there was a boarding house for people with AIDS on my street. | .796 | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | .366 |
 | F2: Avoidance of personal contact |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
4 | I could not be friends with someone who has AIDS. | Â | .908 | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | .176 |
5 | I would limit my contact with a person whom I know is infected with AIDS. | Â | .888 | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | .212 |
6 | I would not hug someone with AIDS. | Â | .968 | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | .064 |
 | F3: Responsibility and blame |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
7 | People who use injectable drugs deserve to have AIDS. | Â | Â | .802 | Â | Â | Â | Â | .357 |
8 | My support for a person living with AIDS depends on how the person was infected. | Â | Â | .822 | Â | Â | Â | Â | .325 |
9 | I am disgusted by persons who were infected during homosexual relations. | Â | Â | .956 | Â | Â | Â | Â | .086 |
17 | People who are infected with the AIDS virus because they have not used a condom deserve what they get. | Â | Â | .872 | Â | Â | Â | Â | .240 |
29 | People with AIDS have only themselves to blame. | Â | Â | .799 | Â | Â | Â | Â | .362 |
39 | Most people with AIDS are responsible for having their illness. | Â | Â | .721 | Â | Â | Â | Â | .481 |
 | F4: Liberalism |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
10 | To fight AIDS, it is necessary that young people not have sex. | Â | Â | Â | .783 | Â | Â | Â | .387 |
11 | Reinforcement of traditional sexual values will help to control AIDS. | Â | Â | Â | .762 | Â | Â | Â | .419 |
12 | The arrival of AIDS is linked to the fact that people have more sexual freedom. | Â | Â | Â | .789 | Â | Â | Â | .378 |
13 | The spread of AIDS is linked to the decline of moral values. | Â | Â | Â | .787 | Â | Â | Â | .380 |
 | F5: Non-discrimination |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
14 | People who have AIDS should have the right to work serving the public, as waiters-waitresses, cooks, hairdressers, etc. | Â | Â | Â | Â | .901 | Â | Â | .189 |
15 | Children who are infected with the aids virus should be able to go to day-care. | Â | Â | Â | Â | .857 | Â | Â | .266 |
16 | Doctors with AIDS should be allowed to go on working with their patients. | Â | Â | Â | Â | .674 | Â | Â | .546 |
19 | People infected with the aids virus should be allowed to immigrate to Canada. | Â | Â | Â | Â | .724 | Â | Â | .475 |
23 | If I had a roommate and discovered he was infected with the AIDS virus, it would not bother me. | Â | Â | Â | Â | .821 | Â | Â | .326 |
 | F6: Confidentiality of serological status |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
27 | I have the right to know if someone around me is infected with the AIDS virus. | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | .766 | Â | .413 |
32 | When a screening test indicates that someone is infected with the AIDS virus, the result should remain confidential. | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | .638 | Â | .592 |
41 | Doctors should report the names of people with AIDS to the government. | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | .665 | Â | .558 |
 | F7: Criminalization of transmission |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
26 | Transmitting the AIDS virus should be punishable by law. | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | .686 | .529 |
31 | People who know they are infected with the AIDS virus and who transmit the virus are criminals. | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | .692 | .521 |
34 | Transmitting the AIDS virus is a crime. | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | .960 | .079 |