51. Fate control and well-being in Chinese rural people living with HIV: mediation effect of resilience.
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Yu, Nancy Xiaonan, Zhang, Jianxin, Chow, Amy Y. M., Chan, Celia H. Y., and Chan, Cecilia L. W.
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CHI-squared test ,CHINESE people ,STATISTICAL correlation ,CULTURE ,DEFENSE mechanisms (Psychology) ,FACTOR analysis ,PSYCHOLOGY of HIV-positive persons ,INTERVIEWING ,PATH analysis (Statistics) ,PROBABILITY theory ,RESEARCH funding ,PSYCHOLOGICAL resilience ,RURAL conditions ,WELL-being ,CROSS-sectional method ,DATA analysis software ,DESCRIPTIVE statistics - Abstract
Fate control has been often misconceptualized as a superstitious belief and overlooked in health psychology. It is not known how this cultural belief might impact the well-being of Chinese people living with HIV. This study examined the protective role of fate control for well-being and the potential mediation effect of resilience. Participants in this study were rural patients who contracted HIV via commercial blood donation. In this cross-sectional survey, 250 participants completed measures of fate control, well-being, and resilience. The results showed that fate control and resilience were positively associated with well-being. Resilience mediated the association between fate control and well-being. Our findings provide insight into the adaptive function of fate control as a cognitive defensive mechanism and highlight the need to incorporate this cultural belief in developing culturally sensitive intervention programs for resilience enhancement tailored for this understudied population infected with HIV living in rural China. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
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- 2017
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