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Toward Better Prevention: Constructions of Trust in the Sexual Relationships of Young Women
Author(s) -
Lane Lisbeth G.,
Viney Linda L. L.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.2002.tb00238.x
Subject(s) - construct (python library) , psychology , social psychology , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , position (finance) , psychological intervention , computer science , medicine , family medicine , finance , psychiatry , programming language , economics
Research on HIV/AIDS interventions indicates that many heterosexual women implement the construct of trust when deciding if preventive measures are necessary. The personal construct model evaluated in this experiment proposes that young women's choice to resist changing from a trust to a nontrust position can be understood in terms of the relationship between their constructs and the hierarchical organization of their construct subsystems. Findings suggest that women with well‐defined networks of implications on their nonpreferred pole of the trust/mistrust construct resist HIV‐preventive messages that require them to mistrust their partner because the proposed change will involve successive use of subordinate constructs that are incompatible with each other.