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Rivera-Picón, Cristina, María Hinojal Benavente-Cuesta, María Paz Quevedo-Aguado, y Pedro Manuel Rodríguez-Muñoz. «The Importance of Positive Psychological Factors among People Living with HIV: A Comparative Study». Behavioral Sciences 12, n.º 8 (2022). https://doi.org/10.3390/BS12080288.
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We aim to identify the differences in psychological well-being, resilience, and coping
strategies between healthy subjects and HIV patients. The design followed in this work was empirical,
not experimental, and cross-sectional with a correlational objective. The sample included a total
of 399 participants (199 patients with HIV and 200 without pathology). The instruments applied
for data collection were as follows: a questionnaire on socio-demographic data, the Psychological
Well-being Scale, the Resilience Scale and the Coping Strategies Questionnaire. The study period was
from February 2018 to January 2020. Patients with HIV had a significantly lower score than healthy
subjects, in the resilience factors of perseverance and self-confidence. Subjects with HIV scored less in
all dimensions of psychological well-being, with the exception of the dimension of autonomy. Finally,
it was observed that HIV-positive subjects used rational coping strategies less frequently than healthy
subjects, based on social support seeking and problem-solving coping. However, HIV patients scored higher in emotional coping strategies than healthy individuals.
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