Negative HIV-specific expectancies and AIDS-related bereavement as predictors of symptom onset in asymptomatic HIV-positive gay men

Health Psychology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 354-363

  Reed, Geoffrey M ^a,b,c   Kemeny, Margaret E ^a,b   Taylor, Shelley E ^a   Visscher, Barbara R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Bereavement; Expectancies; HIV; Stress

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; EXPECTANCY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNE STATUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEREAVEMENT; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; HIV INFECTIONS; HOMOSEXUALITY, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0032810653     PISSN: 02786133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-6133.18.4.354     Document Type: Article

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