Table 4.
Parameter estimates (B), standard errors (SE), and coefficients of determination (R2) from linear regression of perceived stigma dimension sums and overall perceived stigma sum.
| Covariate | Avoidance | Social rejection |
Shame | Overall | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| B | SE | B | SE | B | SE | B | SE | |
| Intervention received | ||||||||
| Yes | .191 | .368 | .118 | .375 | −.342 | .487 | .010 | .935 |
| No | 0 | - | 0 | - | 0 | - | 0 | - |
| Gender | ||||||||
| Male | −.360 | .465 | −1.263 | .474 * | −1.533 | .614 * | −3.166 | 1.181 * |
| Female | 0 | - | 0 | - | 0 | - | 0 | - |
| Sexual orientation | ||||||||
| Gay / Bisexual | .211 | .430 | .278 | .439 | .687 | .569 | 1.152 | 1.094 |
| Heterosexual | 0 | - | 0 | - | 0 | - | 0 | - |
| Disease progression | ||||||||
| Symptomatic, AIDS | .624 | .321 * | .558 | .327 | 1.532 | .424 * | 2.669 | .816 * |
| Asymptomatic | 0 | - | 0 | - | 0 | - | 0 | - |
| Bartered sex | ||||||||
| Yes | .880 | .329 * | .505 | .335 | .260 | .435 | 1.623 | .836 * |
| No | 0 | - | 0 | - | 0 | - | 0 | - |
| Log freq injected drugs | −.072 | .045 | −.091 | .045 * | −.107 | .059 | −.276 | .113 * |
| Friends & family that know serostatus |
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| Proportion | .095 | .086 | −.411 | .088 * | −.198 | .114 * | −.521 | .219 * |
| Size of social network | −.001 | .009 | −.008 | .009 | −.024 | .011 * | −.031 | .022 |
| R2 | .10 | .26 | .18 | .21 | ||||
Note. Overall perceived stigma represents sum of all items from the three dimensions.
*
p < .05