Acta Psychologica Sinica


Vol. 37 No. 1 , Pages 106 - 112 , 2005

The Mood State of Paid Blood Donors With HIV and Its Relation to Stress and Cognitive Appraisal (Article written in Chinese)

WANG Jianping, LIN Xiuyun, WU Hao, & QU Wenyan

Abstract

To investigate the mood state of Paid Blood Donors with HIV and the impaction of the HIV stress and cognitive appraisal on the mood state. Method: 185 objects responded to the questionnaires of Beck Depression Inventory, Self-Rating Anxiety Scale, HIV/AIDS Stress Scale, Appraisal Questionnaire and some items of the demography and other information data. Results: (1) Paid Blood Donors with HIV have serious emotion disorder, and 92 percent of them are severe depression, and they are more anxious than patients of nervous and anxiety; (2) Stress can do some impaction on emotion disorder by cognitive appraisal, and also directly; (3) Cognitive appraisal serves as a media factor in the impaction of stress on emotion disorder. Conclusion: Paid Blood Donors with HIV have serious emotion disorder, and stress and cognitive appraisal can both do impaction on the emotion disorder.

Keywords: paid blood donors with HIV; mood disorder; HIV/AIDS stress; cognitive appraisal

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