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 three-way 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.
