Personality traits, perceived social support and depression among youths living with HIV/AIDS

Abstract

Personality traits, perceived social support and depression among youths living with HIV/AIDS. To assess the relationship of personality traits, perceived social support and depression among youths living with HIV/AIDS. The objectives are, to determine the personality traits of youths living with HIV/AIDS, to assess the level of depression among youths living with HIV/AIDS, to establish the relationship between perceived social support and depression among youths living with HIV/AIDS, to find out the relationship between personality traits and perceived social support among youths living with HIV/AIDS. Respondents were only youths living with HIV/AIDS aged between 15 to 35 years of age; a simple random method was used to give all possible subsets an equal probability to be selected to get fifty-nine (59) respondents. Correlation results in table ten showed that there is a significant relationship between personality traits and perceived social support with (r= 0.269, p= 0.039) the p value was less in magnitude than 0.05. Correlation results in table 13 indicate a negative degree significant relationship between personality traits and depression among youths living with HIV/AIDS (r= 0.463, p= 0.000), the p value which was 0.00 was less in magnitude than 0.01. Correlation results in table 14 indicate a high negative degree significant relationship between perceived social support and depression among youths living with HIV/AIDS in Kampala district. (r= -0.510, p= 0.000), the p value was less in magnitude implying that we had to maintain the alternative hypothesis. In conclusion, results imply that when a person measures in on introversion, s/he is more likely to perceive high social support and a person who measures low on extraversion (introvert) is less likely to perceive high levels of social support. Results also implied that youths who measure high in extraversion and agreeable to experience are less vulnerable to get depression compared to their counterparts, and finally results meant that youths who have high levels of perceived social support are not prone to depression.