HIV-related microaggressions and depressive symptoms among people living with HIV: the mediating roles of internalised stigma and coping with shame.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Overtly experienced HIV-related stigma is associated with depressive symptoms for people living with HIV (PLWH). Research suggests that an important mediating mechanism in this association is internalised stigma, where PLWH accept negative societal views about HIV, apply them to themselves and develop a negative view of themselves. Microaggressions are subtle and indirect discriminatory behaviours and, like overtly experienced stigma, may also contribute to depressive symptoms. We tested this hypothesis and examined the mediating roles of internalised stigma and maladaptive ways of coping with shame in the association between microaggressions and depressive symptoms among PLWH in Türkiye.

Methods

This study examines the serial mediating roles of internalised HIV s

SUBMITTER: Taslıoglu Sayıner AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12353682 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature