Depressive Symptoms Among HIV Positive Men: Life Stress, Coping, and Social Support1

Thomas L. Patterson, Shirley J. Semple, Lydia Temoshok, J. Hampton Atkinson, J. Allen McCutchan, Kristy Straits-Tröster, James L. Chandler, Igor Grant

Journal of Applied Biobehavioral Research · 1993 · 23 citations · 57 references

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Abstract

The significance of life stress, coping, and social support was examined in relation to depressive symptomatology in a sample of 160 asymptomatic and mildly symptomatic HIV‐antibody‐positive (HIV+) men. The participants (mean age = 32 years) were interviewed about the life stress that they had experienced in the previous 6

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