WAYS OF COPING AMONG HIV-INFECTED INDIVIDUALS

Authors
DEGENOVA MK PATTON DM JURICH JA MACDERMID SM
Citation
Mk. Degenova et al., WAYS OF COPING AMONG HIV-INFECTED INDIVIDUALS, The Journal of social psychology, 134(5), 1994, pp. 655-663
Citations number
23
Categorie Soggetti
Psychology, Social
Journal title
The Journal of social psychology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00224545
Volume
134
Issue
5
Year of publication
1994
Pages
655 - 663
Database
ISI
SICI code
0022-4545(1994)134:5<655:WOCAHI>2.0.ZU;2-C
Abstract
A sample of 85 HIV-infected Americans completed a questionnaire that a ssessed coping styles, depression, and physical illness. We examined t he relationships of emotion-focused coping and problem-focused coping to depression and physical illness. A two-way analysis of variance rev ealed a significant main effect for emotion-focused coping on depressi on: Those who used more emotion-focused coping also experienced more d epression. No interaction effects or main effects for problem-focused coping were found.