Determinants of STI/HIV stigma and communication management among heterosexual couples in Kenya

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Bonita B. Sharma ◽  
Eusebius Small ◽  
Silviya Pavlova Nikolova
Keyword(s):  
Hiv Stigma ◽  
Heterosexual Couples ◽  
Communication Management

Effects of Attachment Styles on the Experience of Equity in Heterosexual Couples Relationships

2003 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 298-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ina Grau ◽  
Jörg Doll
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Attachment Style ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
Attachment Styles ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Heterosexual Couples ◽  
Secure Attachment ◽  
Dependent Variables ◽  
Equity Ratio

Abstract. Employing one correlational and two experimental studies, this paper examines the influence of attachment styles (secure, anxious, avoidant) on a person’s experience of equity in intimate relationships. While one experimental study employed a priming technique to stimulate the different attachment styles, the other involved vignettes describing fictitious characters with typical attachment styles. As the specific hypotheses about the single equity components have been developed on the basis of the attachment theory, the equity ratio itself and the four equity components (own outcome, own input, partner’s outcome, partner’s input) are analyzed as dependent variables. While partners with a secure attachment style tend to describe their relationship as equitable (i.e., they give and take extensively), partners who feel anxious about their relationship generally see themselves as being in an inequitable, disadvantaged position (i.e., they receive little from their partner). The hypothesis that avoidant partners would feel advantaged as they were less committed was only supported by the correlational study. Against expectations, the results of both experiments indicate that avoidant partners generally see themselves (or see avoidant vignettes) as being treated equitably, but that there is less emotional exchange than is the case with secure partners. Avoidant partners give and take less than secure ones.

HIV Stigma Scale-18--Chinese Version

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chia‐Hui Yu ◽  
Chu‐Yu Huang ◽  
Yuan‐Ti Lee ◽  
Su‐Fen Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Version ◽  
Hiv Stigma ◽  
Stigma Scale

A Qualitative Study Exploring Harmful Cultural Practices and HIV Stigma in North Central Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-11
Author(s):  
Bala Augustine Nalah ◽  
Azlinda Azman ◽  
Paramjit Singh Jamir Singh
Keyword(s):  
Hiv Infection ◽  
Hiv Transmission ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Hiv Stigma ◽  
Hiv Positive ◽  
North Central ◽  
Harmful Cultural Practices

Harmful cultural practices have psychosocial implications on stigmatization and vulnerability to HIV infection among HIV positive living in North Central Nigeria. To understand this, we conducted qualitative interviews with purposively selected 20 diagnosed HIV positive to explore how culture influences stigmatization and HIV transmission. Data was collected using audio-recorder, transcribed, and analyzed through thematic analysis using ATLAS.ti8 software to code and analyze interview transcripts. The coded data were presented using thematic network analysis to visualize the theme, sub-themes, and quotations in a model. The findings reveal that lack of education was a significant determinant for the continual practice of harmful cultural rites, thereby increasing the risk of HIV infection and stigmatization. Hence, six cultural facilitators have been identified to include female genital mutilation, lack of education, tribal marks and scarification, postpartum sexual abstinence during breastfeeding, sexual intercourse during menstruation, and gender inequality, polygamy, and inheritance law. We conclude that educational teachings and advocacy campaigns be organized in rural schools and public places on the implications of harmful cultural practice to health and psychological well-being. We recommend that the social workers and behavioral scientists should collaborate with other agencies to employ a behavioral-based intervention in eliminating cultural practices and HIV stigma.

Gestión de la comunicación en las organizaciones: una propuesta para su evaluación La comunicación en las organizaciones

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Intriago Macías
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Communication ◽  
Business Strategy ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Expert Interviews ◽  
Communication Management ◽  
Management Communication ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
Methods And Techniques ◽  
Structured Communication

La comunicación aborda desde una perspectiva de acción integrada y contemplando las variables que en ella intervienen. Estos factores igualmente pasan a ser referentes para la evaluación. No se puede hablar de gestión de comunicación en las organizaciones sin diagnóstico consistente, planeamiento alineado a la estrategia de la empresa, plan de acción  coherente,  implantación rigurosa  y  valoración. El  objetivo  de  este  trabajo  es conformar la propuesta de bases teórico-metodológicas para la evaluación del sistema de comunicación en  las  organizaciones. Para  el  desarrollo  se  realizó  un  diseño  general investigativo basado en  la teoría fundamentada y sustentada  en una extensa revisión bibliográfica, análisis documental, entrevistas a expertos y un cuestionario semi- estructurado a profesionales de la comunicación en instituciones y organizaciones seleccionadas. Se concluyó que la comunicación en cualquier entidad y tomando los aspectos a medir, momento, periodicidad, los métodos y técnicas a emplear así como la profundidad y extensión de estos análisis, dependerá de la situación particular de cada organización.  Palabras claves: evaluación, comunicación, gestión de la comunicación, comunicación organizacional, organizaciones. Communication management in organizations: a proposal for its evaluation   Abstract  Communication is stated from a perspective of integrated action and taking into account the variables involved therein. These factors also become benchmarks for evaluation. You can not talk about communication management in organizations without a  consistent diagnosis, aligned business strategy, plan of a consistent action , rigorous implementation and evaluation planning. The aim of this paper is to form the theoretical and methodological proposal for the evaluation of the communication system in organizations . To develop an overall research design based on grounded theory and supported by an extensive  literature  review,  document  analysis,  expert  interviews and  semi-structured communication  to professionals involved in the process of communication in institutions and organizations selected,  and a questionnaire, it was concluded that the communication in any organization and taking aspects to be   measured such as  time, frequency, methods and techniques used as well and the depth and extent of these analyses will depend on the particular situation of each organization. Keywords: assessment, communication, management communication, organizational communication, organizations.

Sylvia Barack Fishman (ed.), Love, Marriage, and Jewish Families: Paradoxes of a Social Revolution. Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2015. 340 pp.

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
The United States ◽  
Work And Family ◽  
Social Revolution ◽  
Heterosexual Couples ◽  
Sexual Identities ◽  
Religious Context ◽  
Love Marriage ◽  
Jewish Families

This chapter reviews the book Love, Marriage, and Jewish Families: Paradoxes of a Social Revolution (2015), edited by Sylvia Barack Fishman. Love, Marriage, and Jewish Families deals with topics that intersect Jewishness, religion, nationality, gender and sexual identities, and life course perspectives. It shows that Jewishness cannot be understood without intersectional analysis of its national and cultural context (illustrated by the United States and Israel), religious context, its temporal context, and its life course context. Fishman explores the ways in which the U.S. and Israeli contexts are significantly different with regard to Jewish families and family orientations; how childrearing among gay and lesbian couples entails different challenges than among heterosexual couples; the added dimension to combining work and family in the case of religiously observant families; and how the overwhelmingly secular outside society can serve to empower haredi women in a shift toward egalitarianism.

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