COPING WITH HIV IN RELATION TO PERSONALITY by Sunita Malhotra, Rajesh Nair and Sapna Sachdeva Nair
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Living with the diagnosis of HIV can be frightening and anxiety producing experience, including the uncertainty of future, fear of death and disfigurement. Two general strategies that people living with HIV/AIDS may use- emotion focused coping and/or problem focused coping. Personality characteristics and coping styles reflect differences in appraisal and response to stressors that may influence immune function. Personality involves the essentially stable, consistent ways in which individuals think, feel, and act across a variety of situations. With the understanding that the role of personality in coping can broaden the person centred change efforts to encompass simultaneous growth in personal resources, the present study aimed to find out whether HIV positive people’s choice of coping response is a function of their more general personality dispositions (Extraversion, Neuroticism and Psychoticism). Correlational design was adopted for relating the coping strategies adopted by the HIV positive persons and their personality characteristics. The target population of the present study was HIV infected people in the reproductive age group of 15 to 49 years. The subjects were contacted through networks of positive people, Community Care Centres, Drop in centres, informal groups, etc. Measures used in the present study were Brief Cope Scale and Eysenck’s Personality Questionnaire-R. Pearson’s coefficient of correlation was used to statistically analyze the data and the results have been discussed in the same light.
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Journal of Indian Health Psychology Vol. 4, No. 2, March, 2010