학술논문

Ethnic differences in the links between benefit finding and psychological adjustment in people living with HIV.
Document Type
Article
Source
Journal of Behavioral Medicine. Jun2016, Vol. 39 Issue 3, p493-501. 9p.
Subject
*ADAPTABILITY (Personality)
*AFFECT (Psychology)
*ANALYSIS of covariance
*ANALYSIS of variance
*ANXIETY
*CHI-squared test
*MENTAL depression
*PSYCHOLOGY of HIV-positive persons
*PROBABILITY theory
*RACE
*SELF-evaluation
*PSYCHOLOGY of the sick
*STATISTICS
*PSYCHOLOGICAL stress
*T-test (Statistics)
*DATA analysis
*INDIVIDUAL development
*DATA analysis software
*MINORITY stress
*ATTITUDES toward illness
Language
ISSN
0160-7715
Abstract
The article focuses on a study related to psychological adjustment and benefit finding in HIV patients with different ethnicity. Topics discussed include stronger association between psychological adjustment and benefit finding in blacks as compared to white people, faster disease progression and severe illness symptoms in ethnic minority populations and dependency of links between ethnicity, adjustment and benefit finding on sexual orientation.