Relationship between perceived stigma and self-transcendence meaning of life among men who have sex with men with HIV/AIDS
10.3969/j.issn.1000-6729.2024.06.012
- VernacularTitle:男男性行为艾滋病病毒感染者的感知歧视与自我超越生命意义
- Author:
Linxin LU
1
,
2
;
Ting YU
;
Xu ZHANG
;
Xiuyun LIN
Author Information
1. 安顺学院特殊教育学院,贵州安顺 561000
2. 中国红十字基金会,北京 100010
- Keywords:
men who have sex with men;
acquired immune syndrome;
self-transcendence meaning of life;
perceived stigma;
fear of negative evaluation;
seeking for meaning;
perspective change
- From:
Chinese Mental Health Journal
2024;38(6):534-541
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective:To explore the relationship between perceived stigma and self-transcendence meaning of life among male college students who have sex with men with HIV,and the role of fear of negation evaluation,seeking for meaning,perspective change in it.Methods:A total of 474 male college students who had sex with men with HIV were selected and tested with the simplified Berger HIV Stigma Scale(BHSS),Fear of Negative Evalua-tion Rating Scale(FNE),Chinese Meaning in Life Questionnaire(C-MLQ),Meaning-focused Coping Questionnaire(MFCQ),and Self-transcendence Meaning of Life Scale(SMLS).Results:The BHSS total scores were negatively correlated with the SMLS total scores(r=0.69,P＜0.001).The FNE scores and the seeking for meaning scores were mediating variables between the BHSS total scores and the SMLS total scores,with estimated effects of-0.13 and-0.11,respectively.The FNE score and seeking for meaning score played a chain mediating role in the total scores of BHSS and SMLS,with estimated effects of-0.16,the perspective change score played a moderating role in the score of the seeking for meaning and the SMLS total score(β=0.07,P＜0.05).Conclusion:Fear of negation evaluation and seeking for meaning play a mediating role between perceived stigma and self-transcendence meaning of life,as well as the moderating effect of perspective change between the search for meaning and self-transcendence meaning of life.
