Summary information

Study title

Attitude to Sexuality and AIDS

Creator

Eirmbter, Willy H. (Fachbereich IV/Soziologie, Universität Trier )
Cordes, Mechthild (Fachbereich IV/Soziologie, Universität Trier)

Study number / PID

ZA1818, Version 1.0.0 (GESIS)

10.4232/1.1818 (DOI)

Data access

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Series

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Abstract

Attitude to sexuality and AIDS among young adults Topics: Life in the country or in the big city; living with parents; open or inhibited dealings with partership and sexuality; desire for a steady partnership; dealing with the physical; orienting personal sexuality along the views of the religious community; fear of strangers; consideration of minorities by society; importance of areas of life; group orientation in leisure time; person to confide in; attitude to the sick and disabled; psychological self-characterization; attitude to sexuality (scale); number of sexual partners in the last year; knowledge about AIDS patients; sources of information about AIDS; assumed number of persons infected with AIDS in the Federal Republic and self-evaluation of knowledge about AIDS; certainty about not being infected personally as well as about one´s sexual partner; judgement on the danger of infection in selected every-day situations; perceived symptoms of illness which could indicate AIDS; refraining from sexual intercourse due to fear of HIV infection; personal measures for protection against AIDS; reaction when a new sexual partner asks about protection against AIDS; preferred social measures in fighting AIDS; importance of AIDS in one´s own life and for society in general; demand for government preventive measures to protect against AIDS.

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Methodology

Data collection period

04/1989 - 06/1989

Country

Time dimension

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Analysis unit

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Universe

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Sampling procedure

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Kind of data

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Data collection mode

Written interview

Access

Publisher

GESIS Data Archive for the Social Sciences

Publication year

1990

Terms of data access

B - Data and documents are released for academic research and teaching, if the results won't be published. If any publications or any further work on the results is planned, permission must be obtained by the Data Archive.

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