TY - JOUR
T1 - Positive and Negative Self-Conscious Emotion and Transmission Risk Following HIV Diagnosis
AU - Batchelder, Abigail W.
AU - Carrico, Adam W.
AU - Acree, Michael
AU - Hecht, Frederick M.
AU - Moskowitz, Judith Tedlie
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements The data used in this manuscript are taken from two studies of people recently diagnosed with HIV: an observational study to assess stress and coping (R01MH068170) and a clinical trial assessing a positive affect intervention (R01MH084723). This work was also supported by T32AT003997, K24MH093225, and K24 AT007827.
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© 2017, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.
PY - 2018/5/1
Y1 - 2018/5/1
N2 - While negative emotions are associated with risk behaviors and risk avoidance among people with HIV, emerging evidence indicates that negative self-conscious emotions, those evoked by self-reflection or self-evaluation (e.g., shame, guilt, and embarrassment), may differentially influence health-risk behaviors by producing avoidance or, conversely, pro-social behaviors. Positive emotions are associated with beneficial health behaviors, and may account for inconsistent findings related to negative self-conscious emotions. Using multinomial logistic regression, we tested whether positive emotion moderated the relationships between negative emotion and negative self-conscious emotions and level of condomless sex risk: (1) seroconcordant; (2) serodiscordant with undetectable viral load; and (3) serodiscordant with detectable viral load [potentially amplified transmission (PAT)] among people recently diagnosed with HIV (n = 276). While positive emotion did not moderate the relationship between negative emotion and condomless sex, it did moderate the relationship between negative self-conscious emotion and PAT (AOR = 0.60; 95% CI 0.41, 0.87); high negative self-conscious and high positive emotion were associated with lower PAT risk. Acknowledgment of both positive and negative self-conscious emotion may reduce transmission risk behavior among people with HIV.
AB - While negative emotions are associated with risk behaviors and risk avoidance among people with HIV, emerging evidence indicates that negative self-conscious emotions, those evoked by self-reflection or self-evaluation (e.g., shame, guilt, and embarrassment), may differentially influence health-risk behaviors by producing avoidance or, conversely, pro-social behaviors. Positive emotions are associated with beneficial health behaviors, and may account for inconsistent findings related to negative self-conscious emotions. Using multinomial logistic regression, we tested whether positive emotion moderated the relationships between negative emotion and negative self-conscious emotions and level of condomless sex risk: (1) seroconcordant; (2) serodiscordant with undetectable viral load; and (3) serodiscordant with detectable viral load [potentially amplified transmission (PAT)] among people recently diagnosed with HIV (n = 276). While positive emotion did not moderate the relationship between negative emotion and condomless sex, it did moderate the relationship between negative self-conscious emotion and PAT (AOR = 0.60; 95% CI 0.41, 0.87); high negative self-conscious and high positive emotion were associated with lower PAT risk. Acknowledgment of both positive and negative self-conscious emotion may reduce transmission risk behavior among people with HIV.
KW - HIV
KW - High-risk sex
KW - Negative self-conscious emotion
KW - Positive emotion
KW - Shame
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U2 - 10.1007/s10461-017-1943-y
DO - 10.1007/s10461-017-1943-y
M3 - Article
C2 - 29086116
AN - SCOPUS:85032670701
VL - 22
SP - 1496
EP - 1502
JO - AIDS and Behavior
JF - AIDS and Behavior
SN - 1090-7165
IS - 5
ER -