CONTEXT Disclosure of HIV-positive status to sex partners is viewed as a preventive measure and as a social and legal responsibility for HIV-infected individuals. AIMS The aim of this study is to determine the proportions and factors responsible for disclosure of HIV seropositivity among residents of Cross River State, Nigeria. SETTINGS AND DESIGN This was a cross-sectional comparative stud...

information disclosure and quality of their presentation are affected by a lot of environmental and organizational factors that organizational culture is one of the most important. responsible organization culture creates a dynamic information environment and helps the quality of information disclosure. accordingly, the aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of organizational culture on t...

Disclosure regulation in credit markets is often put forth as a critical form of consumer "protection", but there is little hard evidence on why consumers need protection or whether disclosure regulation affects market outcomes. We address these two gaps. First we provide a new microfoundation for the widespread emphasis on consumer protection via mandated interest rate disclosure. The microfou...

It is well understood that when corporate insiders trade shares in their firms stock for the sole purpose of maximizing trading profits, they benefit from asymmetric information, and consequently, favor minimal corporate financial disclosure requirements. We demonstrate that when insiders are risk-averse and have other motives for trade, such as liquidity needs, they can actually be harmed by a...

We estimate and test a model of voluntary disclosure in which a manager’s information set is uncertain (Dye 1985; Jung and Kwon 1988). In this model, a manager makes his disclosure decision to maximize the market price, but sometimes, for exogenous reasons, he cannot or is not willing to disclose. We offer a flexible framework to measure the prevalence of unobservable disclosure frictions and t...

Catastrophizers and non-catastrophizers were asked to disclose about their dental worries prior to undergoing dental hygiene treatment. It was hypothesized that the effects of emotional disclosure would vary as a function of the level of catastrophizing; where catastrophizers would be more likely than non-catastrophizers to show reductions in pain and emotional distress. The study also examined...

There is limited data on stigma among older HIV-infected adults in sub-Saharan Africa. We describe the experiences of stigma and disclosure in a cohort of HIV-positive older people in Uganda. Using data from the Wellbeing of Older Peoples' Study of Kalungu (rural site) and Wakiso district (peri-urban site) residents, we measured self-reported stigma levels for 183 respondents (94 on antiretrovi...

Cyberspace has become a common social environment in which people interact and operate in many ways. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the occurrence and reciprocity of self-disclosure, two subjects that are extensively studied in face-to-face interactions but only to a limited degree in virtual, computer-mediated, textual communication. Data was based on 240 first messages in...

ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the association between voluntary disclosure of compensation and firm value based on the notion that comprehensive information on compensation provides higher transparency signals and lower agency conflict. The evidence shows that firms voluntarily disclosing comprehensive information on director and executive compensation are evaluated with higher market value. How...