Death depression and death anxiety in HIV-infected males

Hintze, Julie; Templer, Donald I.; Cappelletty, Gordon G.; Frederick, Winston

doi:10.1080/07481189308252629

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“…Previous studies have found a relationship between HIV disease progression and suicidality (Rabkin et al, 1993), between death anxiety and depression (Hintze et al, 1993) and between symptomatology and depression (Rabkin et al, 1997). However, it is possible that perceived stress is greater among more seriously ill persons, who were not included in this study due to our inclusion criteria that the participant must be healthy enough to be able to attend a support group if so assigned.…”

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confidence: 89%

Relationships of perceived stress to coping, attachment and social support among HIV-positive persons

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The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships of coping, attachment style and perceived social support to perceived stress within a sample of HIV-positive persons. Participants were 147 HIV-positive persons (80 men and 67 women). Multiple regression analysis was used to examine the relationships of the demographic variables, AIDS status, three coping styles, three attachment styles and perceived quality of general social support with total score on the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS). PSS score was significantly associated with less income, greater use of behavioural and emotional disengagement in coping with HIV/AIDS, and less secure and more anxious attachment styles. These results indicate that HIV-positive persons who experience the greatest stress in their daily lives are those with lower incomes, those who disengage behaviourally/emotionally in coping with their illness, and those who approach their interpersonal relationships in a less secure or more anxious style.

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confidence: 89%

Relationships of perceived stress to coping, attachment and social support among HIV-positive persons

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“…One study showed that, as expected, people terminally ill with cancer tended to have signi cantly higher death anxiety scores than orthopedically ill patients ( Sinha & Nigan, 1993). HIV victims were also found to manifest signi cant correlations between death anxiety or depression and state-trait anxiety and clinical depression ( Hintze, Templer, Cappelletty, & Frederick, 1994). Florian, Mikulincer, and Green ( 1993) also found associations between fear of personal death factors and psychological distress of paranoia, psychasthenia, and schizophrenia.…”

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Traumatic Stress and Death Anxiety Among Community Residents Exposed to an Aircraft Crash

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2000

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This article examined the relationship between traumatic stress and death anxiety among community residents who lived near woodlands in which an aircraft had crashed in Coventry, England. The hypothesis was that there would be a high level of impact of the crash experienced by residents and that the residents would experience psychological distress. It was also hypothesized that the impact of the crash and distress were associated with death anxiety. Eighty-two residents were interviewed for the study. They were asked to complete the Impact of Event Scale, the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ), and the Death Anxiety Scale. The results showed that Coventry residents were found to experience intrusive thoughts and display avoidance behavior. The residents' intrusive thoughts and avoidance behavior were significantly more severe than one group of Horowitz's standardized samples (i.e., the medical students), but not significantly different from another group (i.e., the stress clinic samples). Fifty-seven percent scored at or above the GHQ cutoff point, which meant that they were considered to be psychiatric cases. Community residents scored significantly lower in death anxiety than the standardized high-death anxiety patients but no differently from the standardized control patients. Correlations were found between the impact of the event, psychological distress, and death anxiety.

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“…Depressive symptoms may be an indicator of these Stressors. In both samples from the general population with milder symptoms and those who are clinically depressed, fear of death is linked to psychological distress and depression (Hintze, Templer, Cappelletty, and Frederick 1994;Wong et al 1994). Depression is associated with both life satisfaction and conceptions of death.…”

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confidence: 96%

“…Death anxiety and death avoidance have also been associated with greater psychological distress among both healthy and unhealthy groups of individuals (Hintze et al 1994;Wong et al 1994). Persons who accept death as an inevitable aspect of life have better mental health.…”

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confidence: 97%

“…Greater contact with the dead and more interaction with the bereaved may result in enhanced feelings of competency and efficacy to deal with death (Robbins 1994). Although proximity to one's own death is not strongly associated with anxiety (Hintze, Templer, Cappelletty, and Frederick 1994). I hypothesized that more contact with the dying, death, and bereavement would be associated with the profiles of positivists and that negativists would have less interaction with the dying and the bereaved.…”

Section: Correlates Of the Typology And Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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