Emotional Support and Affect: Associations with Health Behaviors and Active Coping Efforts in Men Living with HIV
| Autor: | Jennifer A. Druley, Jessica M. Boarts, Nathan T. Deichert, Douglas L. Delahanty, Erin M. Fekete |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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Male Coping (psychology) medicine.medical_specialty Emotional support Social Psychology Cross-sectional study Health Behavior HIV Infections Affect (psychology) Social support Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) Surveys and Questionnaires Adaptation Psychological medicine Humans Depression Public health Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Social Support medicine.disease Health psychology Cross-Sectional Studies Infectious Diseases Psychology Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | AIDS and Behavior. 12:139-145 |
| ISSN: | 1573-3254 1090-7165 |
| Popis: | The present study represents a cross-sectional examination of the relationship between affect, social support and illness adjustment in men diagnosed with HIV/AIDS. Positive and negative affect were examined as separate mediators of the relationship between emotional support received from a primary support provider and illness adjustment in 105 men living with HIV. Results suggested that depressive symptoms emerged as a mediator between emotional support and engaging in healthy lifestyle behaviors (assessed by summary index). In contrast, positive affect emerged as the primary mediator between emotional support and greater amounts of active coping. Overall, findings suggested that emotional support from close others was indirectly associated with health behaviors and coping through recipients' affective states, and that these positive and negative affective states had differential relationships with multiple aspects of illness adjustment in men living with HIV. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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