Department of Experimental-Clinical and Health Psychology.
Department of Developmental, Personality and Social Psychology.
Pain Med. 2019 Jan 1;20(1):77-89. doi: 10.1093/pm/pny006.
Like all intentional acts, social support provision varies with respect to its underlying motives. Greater autonomous or volitional motives (e.g., enjoyment, full commitment) to help individuals with chronic pain (ICPs) are associated with greater well-being benefits for the latter, as indexed by improved satisfaction of their psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness. The present study investigates the processes explaining why partners' autonomous or volitional helping motivation yields these benefits.
A total of 134 couples, where at least one partner had chronic pain, completed a 14-day diary. Partners reported on their daily helping motives, whereas ICPs reported on their daily received support, timing of help, need-based experiences, and pain.
On days when partners provided help for volitional motives, ICPs indicated receiving more help, which partially accounted for the effect of autonomous helping motivation on ICP need-based experiences. Timing of help moderated the effects of daily received support on ICP need-based experiences.
Findings highlight the importance of ICPs of receiving support in general and the role of timing in particular, which especially matters when there is little support being received.
与所有有意行为一样，社会支持的提供因其潜在动机而异。对于患有慢性疼痛的个体（ICPs），更大的自主或意愿动机（例如，享受、完全投入）提供帮助与后者的幸福感提升相关，这表现在他们对自主、能力和关联性的心理需求的满足得到了改善。本研究旨在探讨解释为什么伴侣的自主或意愿帮助动机产生这些益处的过程。
共有 134 对夫妇，其中至少有一方患有慢性疼痛，完成了为期 14 天的日记。伴侣报告了他们每天的帮助动机，而 ICPs 则报告了他们每天收到的支持、帮助的时间、基于需求的体验和疼痛。
当伴侣出于意愿动机提供帮助时，ICPs 表示收到了更多的帮助，这部分解释了自主帮助动机对 ICP 基于需求的体验的影响。帮助的时间会调节 ICP 每天收到的支持对基于需求的体验的影响。
研究结果强调了 ICPs 普遍收到支持的重要性以及时间安排的作用，尤其是在收到的支持较少时，这一点尤为重要。
