Deichert Nathan T, Fekete Erin M, Boarts Jessica M, Druley Jennifer Ann, Delahanty Douglas L
Department of Psychology, Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA.
AIDS Behav. 2008 Jan;12(1):139-45. doi: 10.1007/s10461-007-9214-y. Epub 2007 Mar 3.
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.
本研究是一项横断面调查，旨在探究被诊断为感染艾滋病毒/艾滋病的男性的情感、社会支持与疾病适应之间的关系。对105名感染艾滋病毒的男性进行研究，将积极情感和消极情感作为从主要支持提供者获得的情感支持与疾病适应之间关系的独立中介变量进行考察。结果表明，抑郁症状成为情感支持与采取健康生活方式行为（通过综合指数评估）之间的中介变量。相反，积极情感成为情感支持与更多积极应对方式之间的主要中介变量。总体而言，研究结果表明，来自亲密他人的情感支持通过接受者的情感状态与健康行为和应对方式间接相关，并且这些积极和消极情感状态与感染艾滋病毒男性疾病适应的多个方面存在不同的关系。
