Elopment And Initial Validation Of Attitude Towards Hiviaids Scale

An instrument to measure al/itude tOll'ards f-IIVIA IDS lI'as developed based on samernsdected predictors (measuring iSSlles), 63 items were initially wril/en and adopted hosedrnon the measuring issues and prepared to be checked/or its face validity and clarity -19rnitems that survived the face validity test 0(111'0 psychology department instructors (AA U)rnand 36 students/i'om diffe rent colleges/ fac ulties, year levels and sex groups with 7 nell'rnitems were administered to the sample selected based on stratified random samplingrnA/ier undertaking some item analysis for each measuring issues (subscales) using 362rnquestionnaires. 27 items were retained and subject to validation study using principalrncomponent analysis, The principal component analysis extracted six componel1ls withrncoefficient alpha reliahility ranging Fom 0, 70 to 0,81: close-mindedness. condom andrncondom use, con/identiality. discrimination, discllss ion & fear of sex Construct validityrnof'the f-IAA scale was also supported by its positive and signi/ical1l correlfllion (0. 75)rnwith a related measure "personal al/ itude about AIDS" and ils poor correlation W()N)rnwith the unrelated measure "depression ", Thereji)re, The HIV/AIDS ollitude scalerndeveloped to AA U students is reliable ond valid

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