Being Yourself and Mental Health: Goal Motives, Positive Affect and Self-Acceptance Protect People with HIV from Depressive Symptoms

Eneko Sansinenea (), Nagore Asla, Arrate Agirrezabal, Maria Jose Fuster-Ruiz- de-Apodaca, Alexander Muela and Maite Garaigordobil
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Eneko Sansinenea: University of Basque Country
Nagore Asla: University of Basque Country
Arrate Agirrezabal: University of Basque Country
Maria Jose Fuster-Ruiz- de-Apodaca: National Distance Education University (UNED)
Alexander Muela: University of Basque Country
Maite Garaigordobil: University of Basque Country

Journal of Happiness Studies, 2020, vol. 21, issue 2, No 10, 593-612

Abstract: Abstract Depression is a major problem for many people living with HIV. In general population-based studies, it was found that characteristics of personal goals, positive affect, and self-acceptance were associated negatively with depression, but almost no studies have investigated their role in HIV infection-related depression. This study examines a prospective model where autonomy and perceived progress in personal goals are positively associated with self-acceptance and positive affect, and these variables, over time, are negatively associated with depressive symptoms. Participants (N = 70) responded first to measures of autonomy, progress in personal goals, perceptions of self-acceptance, and positive affect, and 4 months later, they completed measures of depression. Personal goals variables were observed to be differentially associated with well-being variables: whereas personal goals autonomy was directly associated with both well-being variables, progress in personal goals was directly associated with positive affect and indirectly with self-acceptance, through its association with positive affect. Longitudinally, both self-acceptance and positive affect were associated with depression, the former directly, and the latter indirectly, through its association with self-acceptance. Self-acceptance is revealed as an important predictor of depression in PLWH. Results are discussed in terms of the contributions of hedonic and eudaimonic well-being to the relief of depressive symptoms.

Keywords: Personal goals; Positive affect; Self-acceptance; Depression; HIV/aids (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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