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Name Professor’s Name Course Date Introduction The following paper will use a case study to investigate the psychological factors contributing to a person’s attitude in case of a chronic illness. The current paper is about the story of Miss X found on her blog. Miss X is 27 years old and is HIV positive which she got while serving on the Peace Corps in Zambia. Even though she has to live with the illness for the rest of her life Miss X has found some ways to raise her spirits to be punctual about taking her medications and live a healthy life with friends a husband and in the future possibly have a child (No Going Back. There Is Only Forward). Miss X illustrates the psychological theory of coping in her dating and personal life. In psychology the term ‘coping’ means investing one’s conscious efforts to address personal and and her aspirations for the future (Damasio 33). Even though she might never know why she got HIV despite taking all the precautions Miss X is an excellent example of how psychology helps people survive and thrive even in the worst of circumstances. Works Cited Bleidorn Wiebke et al. "Age and gender differences in self-esteem—A cross-cultural window." Journal of personality and social psychology 111.3 (2016): 396. Brown Jonathon D. "Self-esteem and self-evaluation: Feeling is believing." Psychological perspectives on the self 4.8 (2014): 27-58. Damasio Antonio and Hanna Damasio. "Pain and other feelings in humans and animals." Animal Sentience: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Animal Feeling 1.3 (2016): 33. Marcia J. E. "Ego-Identity Status: Relationship to Change in Self-Esteem." Social Encounters: Contributions to Social Interaction (2017): 340. No Going Back. There Is Only Forward. 2014. Web. 02 03 2018. <nogoingback-thereisonlyforward.blogspot.co.ke Schwarzer Ralf ed. Self-efficacy: Thought control of action. Taylor & Francis 2014. [...]
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Using a given case study as a trigger you will bring together psychological theory and research to critically analyse an individual’s experience of several different psychological and biological aspects of ill health.’
Subject Area: Psychology
Document Type: Dissertation
