Yu Nancy Xiaonan, Zhang Jianxin, Chow Amy Y M, Chan Celia H Y, Chan Cecilia L W
a Department of Applied Social Sciences , City University of Hong Kong , Hong Kong , People's Republic of China.
b Institute of Psychology , Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing , People's Republic of China.
AIDS Care. 2017 Jan;29(1):86-90. doi: 10.1080/09540121.2016.1198749. Epub 2016 Jun 20.
Fate control has been often misconceptualized as a superstitious belief and overlooked in health psychology. It is not known how this cultural belief might impact the well-being of Chinese people living with HIV. This study examined the protective role of fate control for well-being and the potential mediation effect of resilience. Participants in this study were rural patients who contracted HIV via commercial blood donation. In this cross-sectional survey, 250 participants completed measures of fate control, well-being, and resilience. The results showed that fate control and resilience were positively associated with well-being. Resilience mediated the association between fate control and well-being. Our findings provide insight into the adaptive function of fate control as a cognitive defensive mechanism and highlight the need to incorporate this cultural belief in developing culturally sensitive intervention programs for resilience enhancement tailored for this understudied population infected with HIV living in rural China.
命运掌控常常被误解为一种迷信观念，在健康心理学中被忽视。目前尚不清楚这种文化信念会如何影响中国艾滋病毒感染者的幸福感。本研究考察了命运掌控对幸福感的保护作用以及心理韧性的潜在中介作用。本研究的参与者是通过商业献血感染艾滋病毒的农村患者。在这项横断面调查中，250名参与者完成了命运掌控、幸福感和心理韧性的测量。结果表明，命运掌控和心理韧性与幸福感呈正相关。心理韧性在命运掌控与幸福感之间起中介作用。我们的研究结果揭示了命运掌控作为一种认知防御机制的适应性功能，并强调在为中国农村地区这种未被充分研究的艾滋病毒感染人群制定增强心理韧性的文化敏感干预项目时，需要纳入这种文化信念。
