Abstract
AIDS education emphasizing personal responsibility toward AIDS-inducing behavior might enhance negative reactions to people with AIDS. This study, based on Weiner's attributional theory of motivation and emotion, addressed this dilemma by reporting data from a sample of 1,018 Dutch secondary school students. Results support the reasoning that emphasizing personal responsibility, and consequently personal controllability, increases negative reactions to people with AIDS. In addition to causal attributions, however, AIDS knowledge and attitudes toward homosexuality also related significantly to reactions to people with AIDS. To prevent negative reactions to people with AIDS, the subject of homosexuality should be dealt with before AIDS education is provided. AIDS education should address the impossibility of HIV infection by daily interactions, and the meaning and consequences of being seropositive.
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