Resilience factors associated with adaptation to HIV disease

Citation
Ew. Farber et al., Resilience factors associated with adaptation to HIV disease, PSYCHOSOMAT, 41(2), 2000, pp. 140-146
Citations number
19
Categorie Soggetti
Psychiatry,"Clinical Psycology & Psychiatry
Journal title
PSYCHOSOMATICS
ISSN journal
00333182 → ACNP
Volume
41
Issue
2
Year of publication
2000
Pages
140 - 146
Database
ISI
SICI code
0033-3182(200003/04)41:2<140:RFAWAT>2.0.ZU;2-8
Abstract
This study examines the hardiness dimensions of commitment, challenge, and control as resilience factors in adaptation among persons with symptomatic HIV disease and AIDS. Two hundred participants completed self-report questi onnaires measuring hardiness, psychological distress, quality of life, and core personal beliefs. A series of standard multiple regression analyses re vealed that high hardiness was significantly related to 1) lower psychologi cal distress levels; 2) higher perceived quality of life in physical health , mental health, and overall functioning domains; 3) more positive personal beliefs regarding the benevolence of the world and people, self-worth, and randomness of life events; and 4) lowered belief in controllability of lif e events. Commitment was the hardiness factor that most frequently made a u nique contribution to predicting adaptation in the regression models. Impli cations of these findings for understanding HIV-related adaptation and for clinical mental health intervention are considered Future directions in HIV -related adaptation research are suggested.