Sanjuán Pilar, García-Zamora Cristina, Ruiz M Ángeles, Rueda Beatriz, Arranz Henar, Castro Almudena
Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (Spain).
Hospital Universitario La Paz-Cantoblanco (Spain).
Span J Psychol. 2016 Sep 19;19:E50. doi: 10.1017/sjp.2016.60.
Benefit finding (BF) is defined as the individual's perception of positive change as a result of coping with an adverse life event. The beneficial effects of BF on well-being could be because BF favors the improvement of resources like self-efficacy, social support and effective coping. The main objective of this longitudinal 8 week study was to explore, in a sample of cardiac patients (n = 51), the combined contribution of BF and these resources to the positive affect. Moreover, we wanted to check whether these resources were derived from BF or, on the contrary, these resources were antecedents of BF. Results showed that after controlling for functional capacity, only effective coping could predict the positive affect at Time 1 (β = .32, p < .05), while the BF predicted it at Time 2 (β = .23, p < .001). Only social support predicted BF (β = .26, p < .05), but not the opposite. We discussed the desirability of promoting these processes to improve the emotional state of cardiac patients.
益处发现（BF）被定义为个体因应对不良生活事件而对积极变化的感知。BF对幸福感的有益影响可能是因为BF有助于提升诸如自我效能感、社会支持和有效应对等资源。这项为期8周的纵向研究的主要目的是，在一组心脏病患者样本（n = 51）中，探究BF和这些资源对积极情绪的综合作用。此外，我们想检验这些资源是源自BF，还是相反，这些资源是BF的先行因素。结果显示，在控制了功能能力之后，只有有效应对能够预测第1阶段的积极情绪（β = .32，p < .05），而BF能够预测第2阶段的积极情绪（β = .23，p < .001）。只有社会支持能够预测BF（β = .26，p < .05），反之则不然。我们讨论了促进这些过程以改善心脏病患者情绪状态的可取性。
