Role Of Personality Types, Gender And Locality In Self-Report Of Hiv/Aids Stigmatization

ABSTRACT

The study investigated the role of personality type, gender and locality in self-report

of HIV/AIDS stigmatization. Three hundred (300) participants living with HIV/AIDS

(126 males and 174 females) were selected for the study. They were individually

administered the Type A behaviour scale and HIV/AIDS-Related stigmatization

questionnaire. The design of the study was a cross-sectional survey design. A threeway

analysis of variance (ANOVA) involving two levels of personality types, two

levels of gender and two levels of locality was used to test the three hypotheses of the

study. Results show that none among personality type, gender and locality was a basis

for significant differences ( = .05) in the HIV/AIDS stigmatization reported by the

participants: F(1, 292) = 0.05; F(1,292); = 0.02; and F(1,292) = 0.05 respectively.

This shows that the 3 main effects of personality types, gender and locality were not

significant.