英文摘要 |
This study aims to examine how news framing and audience's inherent differences (including gender, perceptions, and attitudes) affect their attitudes towards people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHAs). The analysis herein uses a 4 (news framing of transmission routes) ×2 (gender) ×2 (places of residence) factorial design. A total of 960 young adults from Taipei city and Kaohsiung county participated in the experiment. Data collected are primarily analyzed using multivariate covariate analysis (MANCOVA). The results show that participants tend to express positive attitudes toward PLWHAs' rights for education, work and living, and interaction with and helping out PLWHAs. Participants are, however, more reserved in supporting PLWHAs' rights for marriage and birth-giving. Those expressing more positive views about homosexuality indicate a stronger intention to interact with or help PLWHAs and have more positive attitudes towards PLWHAs' rights for education, work and living. They also are likely to support PLWHAs' rights for marriage and birth-giving more. Those who are assigned to 'man-to-man-sex' news condition express the least negative attitude toward PLWHAs' rights for marriage and birth-giving. Men are more likely than women to show positive attitudes towards PLWHAs' rights for education, work and living, and to interact with PLWHAs. Taipei participants, in comparison to their Kaohsiung counterparts, express a stronger likelihood to support PLWHAs' rights for marriage and birth-giving as well as for education and work and living. |