A Study Of The Impact Of Perspective-Taking On The College Students' HIV/AIDS Prejudice

Since it was found in 1981,AIDS is the disease which suffered from the most serious prejudice.In all countries,social prejudice against HIV/AIDS is recognized as a major obstacle to HIV/AIDS prevention and control.As the sex-active population who are going to enter the society and the backbone of social construction in the future,the attitude of college students to the AIDS people directly affects the development of HIV/AIDS prevention and control for a long time.As a kind of attitude,there are two forms of explicit and implicit.The explicit prejudice is perceived by the individual,and the implicit prejudice is unconscious and automatically activated.Traditional prejudice intervention strategies,such as inhibition,education,etc.,have proved that failed to achieve the desired effect of intervention.In recent years,a large number of studies have shown that perspective-taking as a new type of prejudice intervention,can play a good intervention effect.If the perspective-taking be used for the HIV/AIDS prejudice intervention,whether it will achieve the desired effect? If the perspective-taking can effectively reduce the level of the HIV/AIDS prejudice for college students,what is the psychological mechanism behind it? With these questions,the following study was conducted.The main purpose of this study is to examine the effect of the perspective-taking on HIV/AIDS prejudice and its psychological mechanism.At present,there are two main theories about the mechanism that affect the prejudice: empathy-altruism hypothesis and self-other overlap hypothesis.The first study mainly explores the effect of the perspective-taking on the explicit HIV/AIDS prejudice of college students.The results show that,perspective-taking can effectively reduce the explicit prejudice of HIV/AIDS population.The analysis of the pre-test scores of each dimension shows that the prejudice of the subjects in the social distance dimension to the HIV/AIDS population was the highest and the prejudice in mandatory treatment opinion dimension was the second,and the prejudice in the moral judgment and the reproducible dimension was the lowest.After the experiment,the compare of the dimension scores of experimental group with pro-test and post-test shows that,the scores of each dimension were found to be significantly reduced.The second study mainly discusses the effect of the perspective-taking on the implicit HIV/AIDS prejudice of college students.The results show that the perspective-taking can not effectively reduce the implicit HIV/AIDS prejudice.However,through the analysis of the D value and the response time of the incompatible tasks and the incompatible tasks of pre-test,it is proved that there is a significant prejudice to the HIV/AIDS population in the implicit level.The first study examines the effect of the perspective-taking on the explicit HIV/AIDS prejudice of college students.The third study focuses on the mechanism of action behind it.The results show that the empathy plays a mediating role in the process of reducing the explicit HIV/AIDS prejudice.However,explicit self-esteem does not play a moderating role,and can not verify the self-other overlap hypothesis.In summary,the main conclusions are as follows:Perspective-taking can effectively reduce the explicit prejudice of the HIV/AIDS population.In this process,the empathy-altruism hypothesis plays a mediating role,but explicit self-esteem does not play a moderating role;College students have significant implicit prejudice on HIV/AIDS population.But perspective-taking can not effectively reduce the students' implicit prejudice on HIV/AIDS population.