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The Korean Journal of Health Psychology

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Relationships between Obsessive Beliefs, Experiential Avoidance, AIDS-related Knowledge/Attitude, and AIDS Phobia among Nurses

The Korean Journal of Health Psychology / The Korean Journal of Health Psychology, (P)1229-070X; (E)2713-9581
2012, v.17 no.3, pp.731-746
https://doi.org/10.17315/kjhp.2012.17.3.010


& (2012). Relationships between Obsessive Beliefs, Experiential Avoidance, AIDS-related Knowledge/Attitude, and AIDS Phobia among Nurses. The Korean Journal of Health Psychology, 17(3), 731-746, https://doi.org/10.17315/kjhp.2012.17.3.010

Abstract

This study examined how obsessive beliefs, such as threat overestimation and intolerance of uncertainty, experiential avoidance, and AIDS-related knowledge/attitude are related to AIDS phobia among nurses. Participants were 326 nurses at general hospitals, whose ages ranged from 21 to 54. The psychological tests used in this research included the following: Multicomponent AIDS Phobia Scale, Obsessive Beliefs Questionnaire-87, Acceptance and Action Questionnaires-16, and Questionnaire for AIDS-related knowledge and attitude. The results indicated that attitude toward AIDS was closely correlated to the nurses’ AIDS phobia, whereas knowledge of AIDS was not significantly correlated. Both threat overestimation and intolerance of uncertainty among obsessive beliefs were positively correlated to the nurses’ AIDS phobia. Emotional avoidance and emotion-focused inaction factors of experiential avoidance were positively correlated to the nurses’ AIDS phobia; yet, those variables were not significantly correlated to the fear of AIDS infection among those with AIDS phobia. A stepwise regression analysis revealed that attitude toward AIDS was a determinant variable of the nurses’ AIDS phobia, and accounted for around 20% of the variance. Additionally, threat overestimation accounted for more than 5% of the variance in the nurses’ AIDS phobia. Moreover, intolerance of uncertainty and emotional avoidance had partial covariance with the nurses’ AIDS phobia independently. Moreover, attitude toward AIDS partly mediated the relation of the threat overestimation as well as emotional avoidance and the nurses’ AIDS phobia. These results was discussed with previous studies as well as with the theory of reasoned action and the theory of planned behavior.

keywords
AIDS, nurses, obsession, experiential avoidance, attitude, 에이즈, 간호사, 강박신념, 경험회피, 태도

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