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Published in final edited form as: AIDS Behav. 2012 May;16(4):1063–1074. doi: 10.1007/s10461-011-0086-9

Table 4.

Factor correlations, convergent and divergent validity for HIV and abuse related shame inventory (HARSI)

	HIV-related shame	Effect of HIV-related shame on behavior	Sexual abuse-related shame
HARSI scales
HIV-related shame	–	–	–
Impact of HIV-related shame on behavior	0.559^**	–	–
Sexual abuse-related shame	0.488^**	0.339^**	–
HIV specific criterion measures
HIV physical symptoms	0.213^**	0.215^**	0.287^**
HIV-related stressors	0.533^**	0.326^**	0.367^**
Sexual HIV transmission risk behavior	0.120	0.226^**	0.081
Psychosocial criterion measures
TSI: trauma-related symptoms	0.416^**	0.192^**	0.504^**
TSI: mood and anxiety symptoms	0.442^**	0.225^**	0.452^**
TSI: behavioral difficulties	0.394^**	0.268^**	0.448^**
SCL-90-R global severity index	0.493^**	0.301^**	0.562^**
Perceived availability of social support	−.154^*	−.194^**	−.146^*

Note: Ns vary from 267 to 271 as a result of missing data, except sexual HIV transmission behavior N = 256 due to missing data

Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed)

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Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed)