The mediating effect of psychological resilience between social support and anxiety/depression in people living with HIV/AIDS–a study from China
Yongbing Sun, Bing Song, Cheng Zhen, Chao Zhang, Juan Cheng, Tianjun Jiang · 2023
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Yongbing Sun and colleagues ask how social support eases anxiety and depression in people living with HIV, in this study from China, published in twenty twenty-three. Support from family and friends is known to help, but the path from support to calm was unclear. The team proposed that resilience, the skill of bouncing back, carries the effect.
One hundred sixty-one patients at one hospital filled in scales for support, resilience, anxiety, and depression. Both anxiety and depression ran lower where support and resilience ran higher. Statistical tests then showed the chain: support predicted resilience, and resilience predicted lower distress. Once resilience was counted, support's direct link to distress faded away, meaning resilience fully carried it. The authors advise care teams to widen patients' support networks precisely because support builds the inner strength that holds distress down.
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| CREATOR | Yongbing Sun, Bing Song, Cheng Zhen, Chao Zhang, Juan Cheng, Tianjun Jiang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 22 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |