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Adolescent Risk-perception Cognition and Self-assessment in Relation to the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: The Case of Some Selected Schools in Zomba, Malawi

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dc.contributor.author Mwale, Marisen
dc.date.accessioned 2022-12-18T13:52:51Z
dc.date.available 2022-12-18T13:52:51Z
dc.date.issued 2008
dc.identifier.citation Mwale, M. (2008). Adolescent Risk-perception Cognition and Self-assessment in Relation to the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: The Case of Some Selected Schools in Zomba, Malawi. Psychology & Developing. Societies, 20(2), 229-240. https://doi.org/10.1177/097133360802000205 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://doi.org/10.1177/097133360802000205
dc.identifier.uri http://repository.mzuni.ac.mw/handle/123456789/435
dc.description.abstract Most researchers, on adolescent reproductive health and associated vulnerability to contracting Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome HIV/AIDS, have explicitly highlighted the paradoxical misfi t between adolescent knowledge of HIV/AIDS transmission dynamics and positive change in behaviour. Popular explanation focuses more on socio-cultural factors such as male chauvinism, peer infl uence and pressure, and stoicism towards death in most African cultures. An alternative explanation derived from psycho-social theory is that, as a result of egocentrism and the crisis at adolescence, the period is imbued with confounded perception of risk to the pandemic. This alternative is tested using survey data from adolescent students from some selected schools in southern Malawi. Results show that respondents are typified by adolescent egocentrism. This is consistent with the conception of adolescence as a period of crisis. These results are discussed within the larger context of the applicability of psychodynamic theory to the AIDS pandemic. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Sage en_US
dc.title Adolescent Risk-perception Cognition and Self-assessment in Relation to the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: The Case of Some Selected Schools in Zomba, Malawi en_US
dc.type Article en_US


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