Thirty years on … the social representation of AIDS among French teenagers

Sandrine Gaymard and Camille Cazenave

Children and Youth Services Review, 2018, vol. 84, issue C, 48-54

Abstract: Teenagers, who are particularly concerned by the HIV virus, are targeted by plans of HIV prevention, as they are just beginning their sex lives. Since certain recent studies reveal that teenagers are not using HIV prevention methods, we analyse social representations of HIV/AIDS among a group of 100 French high school pupils, thirty years after it appeared and after the first studies of the social representation of AIDS. The results of a free associations test show that both girls and boys have the same social representation of AIDS. The results of a complementary questionnaire tend to show that this disease has become less frightening and less stigmatizing and that girls have a more preventive state of mind.

Keywords: Social representations; Young teenagers; HIV/AIDS; Risk; Inductive method; Questionnaire (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2017.11.018

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