[Vulnerability of women in common-law marriage to becoming infected with HIV/AIDS: a study of social representations]. / Vulnerabilidade de mulheres em união heterossexual estável à infecção pelo HIV/Aids: estudo de representações sociais.

This article discusses the social representations of women living in common-law marriage in terms of their vulnerability to becoming infected with HIV/AIDS. Data were obtained through the free association of words, and consisted of an excerpt of a study founded on the Social Representations Theory developed with HIV-negative women living in the state capital and cities in the interior of Bahia. The correspondence factor analysis showed significance for the variables: origin, education level and time spent in common-law marriage. Their acceptance of marital affairs emerged as a vulnerability factor for respondents with one to five years spent in common-law marriage, living in cities in the interior. Women from the capital, with 6-10 years spent in common-law marriage, reported monogamy as a form of prevention. Women with a longer common-law marriage who had completed only a primary education reported feeling invulnerable, which was the opposite of those with one to five years in common-law marriage with a secondary education. Results show there is a need for more interventions aiming to denaturalize the socio-cultural coercions that generate representations and make women in common-law marriages more vulnerable to AIDS.

Vulnerabilidade de mulheres em união heterossexual estável à infecção pelo HIV/Aids: estudo de representações sociais / Vulnerability of women in common-law marriage to becoming infected with HIV/AIDS: a study of social representations / Vulnerabilidad de mujeres en unión heterosexual estable a la infección por VIH/SIDA: estudio de representaciones sociales

O artigo discute as representações sociais de mulheres em união heterossexual estável no que diz respeito à vulnerabilidade à infecção pelo HIV/AIDS. Os dados foram produzidos pela associação livre de palavras e constituem recorte de uma pesquisa fundamentada na Teoria das Representações Sociais desenvolvida com mulheres soronegativas para o HIV, da capital e interior da Bahia. A análise fatorial de correspondência revelou significância para as variáveis: procedência, escolaridade e tempo de união estável. A aceitação à traição emergiu como fator de vulnerabilidade para respondentes com 1-5 anos de união estável do interior. Mulheres da capital com 6-10 anos de união estável representam a monogamia como forma de prevenção. Mulheres com maior tempo de união e nível escolar básico representam-se como invulneráveis, contrárias as que têm 1-5 anos de união e escolaridade mediana. Os resultados indicam a necessidade de mais ações com o objetivo de desnaturalizar as coerções sócio-culturais que geram representações e aproximam mulheres em união estável da AIDS.

This article discusses the social representations of women living in common-law marriage in terms of their vulnerability to becoming infected with HIV/AIDS. Data were obtained through the free association of words, and consisted of an excerpt of a study founded on the Social Representations Theory developed with HIV-negative women living in the state capital and cities in the interior of Bahia. The correspondence factor analysis showed significance for the variables: origin, education level and time spent in common-law marriage. Their acceptance of marital affairs emerged as a vulnerability factor for respondents with one to five years spent in common-law marriage, living in cities in the interior. Women from the capital, with 6-10 years spent in common-law marriage, reported monogamy as a form of prevention. Women with a longer common-law marriage who had completed only a primary education reported feeling invulnerable, which was the opposite of those with one to five years in common-law marriage with a secondary education. Results show there is a need for more interventions aiming to denaturalize the socio-cultural coercions that generate representations and make women in common-law marriages more vulnerable to AIDS.

Se discuten representaciones sociales de mujeres en unión heterosexual estable, respecto de vulnerabilidad a infección por VIH/SIDA. Datos generados a partir de asociación libre de palabras, constituyéndose en muestra de investigación fundamentada en Teoría de las Representaciones Sociales, desarrollada con mujeres seronegativas para VIH, de capital e interior de Bahía. El análisis factorial de correspondencia reveló significatividad para: procedencia, escolaridad y tiempo de unión. La aceptación de la traición surgió como factor de vulnerabilidad para participantes con 1-5 años de unión estable del interior. Las mujeres de capital con 6-10 años de unión representan a la monogamia como forma de prevención. Mujeres con mayor tiempo de unión y escolaridad básica se auto-representan como invulnerables, al contrario de aquellas con 1-5 años de unión y escolarización media. Los resultados sugieren aumentar acciones para desnaturalizar coerciones socioculturales que engendran representaciones y favorecen la exposición de la mujer en unión estable al SIDA.