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This article presents a study of relations between temperament traits and coping style, and intensity of trauma symptoms in HIV+ men and women. The study was run on 310 HIV + individuals (157 men and 153 women) in or not in the AIDS phase.Coping style and some temperament traits had the greatest effect on intensity of trauma symptoms.
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Better understanding of the role of psychosocial factors determining the level PTSD symptoms among HIV/AIDS patients will help to develop more effective methods of psychotherapy for such people, methods which take their specific personality patterns into consideration.
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This page is a summary of: Temperament traits, coping style and trauma symptoms in HIV+ men and women, AIDS Care, June 2012, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/09540121.2012.687819.
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