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Prediction of Psychological Welfare Based on Defensive Mechanisms and Coping Strategies in People with Positive HIV
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The present study aimed at prediction of the psychological welfare according to defensive mechanisms and coping strategies in people with positive HIV. The study was correlational. The population of the study included all people with diagnosis of positive HIV repering in Psychological Counseling Center in Shiraz University of Medical Sciences in 1393, that 100 people were selected for available sampling. Tools used in this research were defense style questionnaire (Andrews, Singh, & Bond, 1993). Reif's Psychological welfare questionnaire, and Parker and Andlers' coping strategies questionnaire (1990). The obtained results from these questionnaires were analyzed by Pearson correlation and regression. The results indicated that psychological welfare had a positive and significant relation with problem-focused strategies and developed defense style. It had a negative and significant relation with avoidant coping strategies, undeveloped defense style, and neurotic defense style. However, it had no significant relation with emotion-focused coping strategies. In addition, only neurotic defense style had the predictive power of psychological welfare. Furthermore, problem-focused and avoidant coping strategies have the predictive power of psychological welfare in these patients.
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Psychological Welfare, Defense Mechanism, Coping Strategies, Positive HIV.
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