Objectives: AIDS is a debilitating chronic infectious disease. Identification of personality characters and hope of HIV- positive patients impacts the improvement of health services. The aim of this research was to evaluate the correlation between the personality characters and hope in HIV- positive patients. Method: Some 42 HIV-positive patients with available sampling method were selected. Hope questionnaire and NEO-PI-R scale were used for evaluation of personality characters and hope. Data analysis was done via Pearson and multivariate regression analysis. Results: Data analysis showed independent negative correlation between neuroticism and hope and positive dependent correlation between extroversion and hope. Conclusion: Only neuroticism can independently predict hope in HIV-positive patients. Neurotic persons are depressive, anxious, irrational, stressful, with guilt feeling. So HIV positive patients with high neuroticism score probably have low hope.
Hosseinsabet,F and Fayezipour,M . (2013). The Correlation of Personality Characters and Hope in HIV- Positive Patients. Counseling and psychotherapy culture, 4(16), 1-14.
MLA
Hosseinsabet,F , and Fayezipour,M . "The Correlation of Personality Characters and Hope in HIV- Positive Patients", Counseling and psychotherapy culture, 4, 16, 2013, 1-14.
HARVARD
Hosseinsabet F, Fayezipour M. (2013). 'The Correlation of Personality Characters and Hope in HIV- Positive Patients', Counseling and psychotherapy culture, 4(16), pp. 1-14.
CHICAGO
F Hosseinsabet and M Fayezipour, "The Correlation of Personality Characters and Hope in HIV- Positive Patients," Counseling and psychotherapy culture, 4 16 (2013): 1-14,
VANCOUVER
Hosseinsabet F, Fayezipour M. The Correlation of Personality Characters and Hope in HIV- Positive Patients. Counseling and psychotherapy culture. 2013;4(16):1-14 (In Persian).
