Helgeson V S
Department of Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213.
J Pers Soc Psychol. 1993 May;64(5):807-16. doi: 10.1037//0022-3514.64.5.807.
The present study examined the effects of agency and communion on psychological adjustment to a 1st coronary event. Patients were interviewed about agency and communion and psychological adjustment in the hospital shortly before discharge (Time 1) and then reinterviewed along with spouses in their homes 3 months after discharge (Time 2). It was hypothesized that the extreme agentic orientation (unmitigated agency) and the extreme communal orientation (unmitigated communion) would be associated with poor adjustment for patients and spouses but that agency would promote self adjustment and communion would promote partner adjustment. In general, results confirmed predictions. It was suggested that the most distressed couples consist of a patient high in unmitigated agency and a spouse high in unmitigated communion. Although patients in such couples did not evidence the most distress, spouses did.
本研究考察了能动性和共融性对首次冠心病事件心理调适的影响。在患者出院前不久（时间1），研究人员就能动性、共融性和心理调适情况对他们进行了访谈，然后在出院3个月后，与患者的配偶一起在其家中进行了再次访谈（时间2）。研究假设，极端的能动性取向（纯粹能动性）和极端的共融性取向（纯粹共融）会与患者及其配偶的调适不良相关，但能动性会促进自我调适，共融性会促进伴侣调适。总体而言，研究结果证实了预测。研究表明，最痛苦的夫妻组合是一方为纯粹能动性较高的患者，另一方为纯粹共融性较高的配偶。虽然这类夫妻中的患者并未表现出最痛苦的状态，但配偶却是如此。
