Psychosocial vulnerability to stress: a study of HIV-positive homosexual men
| Autor: | K. H. Nott, K Vedhara |
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| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
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Male Coping (psychology) media_common.quotation_subject Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) medicine.disease_cause Developmental psychology Cohort Studies Life Change Events Social support Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) Adaptation Psychological HIV Seropositivity medicine Humans Longitudinal Studies media_common Aged Self-esteem Life events Social Support Middle Aged medicine.disease Self Concept Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Affect Worry Psychology Psychosocial Stress Psychological |
| Zdroj: | Journal of psychosomatic research. 41(3) |
| ISSN: | 0022-3999 |
| Popis: | Sixty-one homosexual men with HIV infection participated in a 12-month investigation into the role of stressful life events and mediating variables in the stress process. The results revealed that frequency of stressful life events and psychosocial resilience (a factor indexing levels of support, worry, personal self-esteem, and effective coping efforts) significantly predicted levels of emotional distress in this sample. The combined influence of these variables accounted for 53% (Phase 2) and 55% (Phase 3) of the variance in levels of emotional distress. The data point to a need to incorporate measures of life event frequency and several, rather than single, mediating variables in studies investigating the stress process. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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