Positive Affect Predicts Lower Risk of AIDS Mortality
Psychosomatic MedicinePublished 1 July 2003
Judith T. Moskowitz
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Positive affect seems to be the "active ingredient" in the association of scores on the CES‐D depressive mood scale and mortality in this sample of HIV+ men, and future work should expand the traditional negative‐affect‐only focus to encompass the significant role that positive affect plays in living with HIV.
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Positive affect seems to be the "active ingredient" in the association of scores on the CES-D depressive mood scale and mortality in this sample of HIV+ men. Future work should expand the traditional negative-affect-only focus to encompass the significant role that positive affect plays in living with HIV.
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