Toward better prevention: Constructions of trust in sexual relationships

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Lane, LG; Viney, LLL: Toward better prevention: Constructions of trust in the

sexual relationships of young women: JOURNAL OF APPLIED SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY, 32

(4): 700-718 APR 2002.

Abstract: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 die 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.

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