The relationship between Africentric coping style and psychological well being in HIV infected women of African descent living in the USA
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Title
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The relationship between Africentric coping style and psychological well being in HIV infected women of African descent living in the USA
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Identifier
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d_2009_2013:e712e24661f5:10218
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identifier
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10402
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Creator
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Pieterse, Portia L.,
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Contributor
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Elliot Jurist | Anderson J. Franklin
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Date
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2009
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Clinical psychology | Womens studies | Black studies | Black women | coping | Culture | HIV | psychological well being | Women
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Abstract
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The literature represents an alarming trend of HIV infection among African American women of child-bearing age. Evidence exists that there is a significant association between HIV diagnosis and psychological distress, treatment adherence and disease progression. Additionally evidence exists that coping strategies are influenced by culture. Therefore, it is the purpose of this study to investigate the association between a cultural specific Africentric coping style and psychological well being in women of African decent confronted with life stressors from living with HIV/AIDS.;Participants were 165 women of African descent, with a HIV seropositive status, recruited from the Washington DC metropolitan area, who completed a research packet that included The Perceived Stress Scale-10 item --PSS (Cohen, Kamarck, Mermelstein, 1983); The HIV/AIDS Stress Scale (Pakenham & Rinaldis, 2002); The Ways of Coping Questionnaire --WCQ (Lazarus & Folkman. 1984); Africultural Coping Style Inventory-ACSI (Utsey, Adams, Bolden, 2000); The Mental Health Inventory --MHI (Veit & Ware, 1984); the Franklin Psychological Well being Index (Franklin, 1996); and a Personal Data Form.;Results of a hierarchical regression analysis established that for the current sample HIV disease related stress was positively associated with psychological distress and inversely associated with psychological well being. Furthermore, the findings revealed that culture specific coping had no relationship with psychological distress and Negative Self-esteem, and was marginally associated with Positive Self-esteem.;The results of the present study are similar to results reported in the literature that HIV-positive African American women, who have higher levels of stress, have less psychological well being. As with the present study the literature also shows that coping is negatively associated with psychological distress (Burns, Feaster, Mitrani, OW, & Szapocznik, 2008). Furthermore, cultural specific coping styles had a small effect on psychological well being. Implications for clinical practice and future research are discussed.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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2009_2013.csv
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degree
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Ph.D.
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Program
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Psychology
