A study of cognitive avoidance and resignation in female HIV patients

Pages: 1328-1329
O. P. Sharma (Department of Psychology, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, Rajasthan)

The present study was conducted to accomplish the objective to investigate the significance of mean difference between HIV-infected females and control group females with respect to cognitive avoidance and resignation. It was hypothesized that there will be significant mean difference between HIV-infected females and control group females with respect to cognitive avoidance and resignation. An independent measures design was employed on a sample of 100 HIV-infected females and 100 control subjects with comparable age, education and socioeconomic background. Mean, SD and ‘t’ ratio was computed through SPSS 17.0. It was empirically proved that there is no significant difference in cognitive avoidance between female HIV patients and control group. It was also found that there is a significant mean difference in Resignation between HIV-infected females and control group.