The moderating role of helplessness in Rheumatoid Arthritis, a chronic disease
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- learned helplessness, rheumatoid arthritis, chronic disease, health maintenance
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The role of psychosocial factors that contribute to the maintenance of health has been conceptualized in terms of a health-sustaining function (or direct-effects hypothesis), as well as a stress-reducing function (or moderating hypothesis). This study is concerned with the stress-reducing function of helplessness on Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) health outcome. In a sample of 186 adult hospital RA patients of low socioeconomic status, helplessness measured by the Arthritis Helplessness Index (AHI; Nicassio, Wallston, Callahan, Herbert, and Pincus, 1985), was found to moderate the relationship between the following: swollen joint count and depression, number of tender joints and functional ability, tender joint count and pain experience, and tender joint count and perceived disability.
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- 2006-03-01
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- Volume 34, 2006, Issue 2
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