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Five‐Factor Model Personality Traits, Spirituality/Religiousness, and Mental Health Among People Living With HIV
Author(s) -
Löckenhoff Corinna E.,
Ironson Gail H.,
O'Cleirigh Conall,
Costa Paul T.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
journal of personality
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.082
H-Index - 144
eISSN - 1467-6494
pISSN - 0022-3506
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6494.2009.00587.x
Subject(s) - psychology , spirituality , big five personality traits , personality , mental health , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , clinical psychology , social psychology , psychiatry , medicine , alternative medicine , pathology , family medicine
We examined the association between five‐factor personality domains and facets and spirituality/religiousness as well as their joint association with mental health in a diverse sample of people living with HIV ( n =112, age range 18–66). Spirituality/religiousness showed stronger associations with Conscientiousness, Openness, and Agreeableness than with Neuroticism and Extraversion. Both personality traits and spirituality/religiousness were significantly linked to mental health, even after controlling for individual differences in demographic measures and disease status. Personality traits explained unique variance in mental health above spirituality and religiousness. Further, aspects of spirituality and religiousness were found to mediate some of the links between personality and mental health in this patient sample. These findings suggest that underlying personality traits contribute to the beneficial effects of spirituality/religiousness among vulnerable populations.