caa a22 4500 475847350 CHVBK 20180406123918.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1008918719749 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1008918719749 The role of personality, coping style and social support in health-related quality of life in HIV infection [Elektronische Daten] [A.P. Burgess, M. Carretero, A. Elkington, E. Pasqual-Marsettin, C. Lobaccaro, J. Catalán] Objective: To determine the role of health status, personality and coping style, on self-report health-related quality of life (QoL). Methods: Participants were HIV seropositive individuals at all disease stages from three samples (a) gay/bisexual men from the UK, (b) injecting drug users from the UK, (c) injecting drug users from Italy. All participants completed questionnaires evaluating QoL, personality, coping style and social support. Explicit models of the relationships between the measured variables based on a review of the literature were tested using structural equation modelling. Results: Health status was modestly associated with the physical but not the psychological aspects of QoL (β = 0.44). Neuroticism was strongly associated with psychological QoL (β = −0.73) but only weakly with physical QoL (β = −0.21). The samples did not differ in either the pattern or the magnitude of these relationships. Mediating factors such as coping style, social support and other personality variables had only a weak influence on the role of Neuroticism. Conclusions: Neuroticism had a strong influence on health-related QoL that was independent of health status. Neuroticism was more strongly associated with the psychological aspects of QoL than health status. Coping styles and the other psychological variables assessed had only a weak mediating influence on this relationship. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000 Coping style nationallicence Personality nationallicence Quality of life nationallicence Statistical-modelling nationallicence Burgess A.P. Division of Neuroscience and Psychological Medicine, Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, London, UK aut Carretero M. Division of Neuroscience and Psychological Medicine, Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, London, UK aut Elkington A. Division of Neuroscience and Psychological Medicine, Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, London, UK aut Pasqual-Marsettin E. Division of Neuroscience and Psychological Medicine, Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, London, UK aut Lobaccaro C. Division of Neuroscience and Psychological Medicine, Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, London, UK aut Catalán J. Division of Neuroscience and Psychological Medicine, Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, London, UK aut Quality of Life Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 9/4(2000-05-01), 423-437 0962-9343 9:4<423 2000 9 11136 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008918719749 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008918719749 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Burgess A.P. Division of Neuroscience and Psychological Medicine, Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, London, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Carretero M. Division of Neuroscience and Psychological Medicine, Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, London, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Elkington A. Division of Neuroscience and Psychological Medicine, Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, London, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pasqual-Marsettin E. Division of Neuroscience and Psychological Medicine, Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, London, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lobaccaro C. Division of Neuroscience and Psychological Medicine, Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, London, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Catalán J. Division of Neuroscience and Psychological Medicine, Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, London, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Quality of Life Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 9/4(2000-05-01), 423-437 0962-9343 9:4<423 2000 9 11136 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer