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The Relationship Between Forgiveness and Health Outcomes Among People Living with HIV: A Cross-Sectional Study in France.
- Source :
- AIDS & Behavior; Oct2023, Vol. 27 Issue 10, p3332-3341, 10p, 1 Diagram, 3 Charts
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- Research to date has shown that HIV infection is a highly stressful experience for individuals, and one of the key adaptive resources after such painful experiences may be forgiveness. The aim of the present study was to examine the associations between dispositional forgiveness (assessed using Mullet's Forgivingness Questionnaire and Toussaint's Forgiveness Scale), perceived stress (single-item measure of stress symptoms), health perception (EuroQol visual analogue version of the scale) and life satisfaction (Satisfaction With Life Scale) in people living with HIV (PLWH) in France. Paper surveys were completed by 222 PLWH aged 18–78 (57% male). Multiple regression analysis revealed that sensitivity to circumstances, unconditional forgiveness, self-forgiveness, and forgiveness of others were significant predictors of health and happiness. Mediation analysis showed that these relationships are completely mediated by perceived stress. The present findings suggest that forgiveness and perceived stress may be important variables for healing in PLWH. Interventions designed to improve forgiveness and self-forgiveness may result in improved health and life satisfaction in PLWH. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- HIV-positive persons
HIV infections
EVALUATION of medical care
FORGIVENESS
CONFIDENCE intervals
CROSS-sectional method
MULTIPLE regression analysis
REGRESSION analysis
SATISFACTION
PEARSON correlation (Statistics)
QUESTIONNAIRES
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
FACTOR analysis
CHI-squared test
DATA analysis software
EVALUATION
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10907165
- Volume :
- 27
- Issue :
- 10
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- AIDS & Behavior
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 172312949
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10461-023-04052-w