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Relationships of perceived stress to coping attachment and social support among HIV-positive persons
- Authors:
- KOOPMAN C., et al
- Journal article citation:
- AIDS Care, 12(5), October 2000, pp.663-672.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Examines the relationships of coping , attachment style and perceived social support to perceived stress with a sample of American HIV-positive persons. The results of the study 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.
Affect and loneliness among centenarians and the oldest old: the role of individual and social resources
- Authors:
- MARGRETT Jennifer A., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Aging and Mental Health, 15(3), April 2011, pp.385-396.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Affect and loneliness are important indicators of mental health and well-being in older adulthood. Negative affect appears to be related to psychological distress and depression. Positive affect is associated with optimism, adaptive coping responses, and lower depression. The aim of this study was to examine the ability of individual and social resources in predicting positive and negative affect and loneliness within a sample of oldest-old individuals including centenarians. Data collection was done as part of the Georgia Centenarian Study, Phase 3, 2001-2008. The eligible sample for this study included 55 octogenarians aged 81-90 years and 77 centenarians and near centenarians aged 98-109 years, all of whom scored 17 or more on the Mini-Mental Status Exam. The participants completed demographics and multiple indicators of mental health, functional ability, cognition, social functioning, and personality. Hierarchical regression analyses demonstrated that, within this sample of cognitively intact oldest old, measures of executive control and cognitive functioning demonstrated limited association with mental health. Personality, specifically neuroticism, was strongly related to mental health indicators for both age groups and social relations were particularly important associates of centenarians' mental health.
Communication and interpretation of emotional distress within the friendships of young Irish men prior to suicide: a qualitative study
- Authors:
- SWEENEY Lorna, OWENS Christabel, MALONE Kevin
- Journal article citation:
- Health and Social Care in the Community, 23(2), 2015, pp.150-158.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
In-depth qualitative interviews were conducted to explore young men's narratives of peer suicide and to identify how they interpreted and responded to behavioural changes and indications of distress from their friend before suicide. The interviews were carried out during 2009/10 with 15 Irish males (aged 19-30 years) who had experienced the death by suicide of a male friend in the preceding 5 years. The data were analysed using a thematic approach. Through the analysis of the participants’ stories and experiences, several features of young male friendships and social interactions that could be addressed to strengthen the support available to young men in crisis were identified. These included the reluctance of young men to discuss emotional or personal issues within male friendships; the tendency to reveal worries and emotion only within the context of alcohol consumption; the tendency of friends to respond in a dismissive or disapproving way to communication of suicidal thoughts; the difficulty of knowing how to interpret a friend's inconsistent or ambiguous behaviour prior to suicide; and beliefs about the sort of person who takes their own life. Community-based suicide prevention initiatives must enhance the potential of young male social networks to support young men in crisis, through specific provisions for developing openness in communication and responsiveness, and improved education about suicide risk. (Edited publisher abstract)
Moving house
- Author:
- PARSLOE Phyllida
- Journal article citation:
- Health Service Journal, 8.2.96, 1996, p.30.
- Publisher:
- Emap Healthcare
Increasingly, provider trusts are subcontracting some of the care and treatment which the health authority is purchasing from the trust. In this article the author explains how a trust board negotiating with a private nursing home provider to house and care for a group of mentally ill patients had to consider their social and emotional needs as well as financial targets.