Benefit Finding in Cardiac Patients: Relationships with Emotional Well-Being and Resources after Controlling for Physical Functional Impairment

Pilar Sanjuán Suárez; Cristina García Zamora; María Angeles Ruiz Fernández; Beatriz Rueda; Henar Arranz; Almudena Castro Conde

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Benefit Finding in Cardiac Patients: Relationships with Emotional Well-Being and Resources after Controlling for Physical Functional Impairment

Pilar Sanjuán ^[1] ; Cristina García-Zamora ^[1] ; M. Ángeles Ruiz ^[1] ; Beatriz Rueda ^[1] ; Henar Arranz ^[2] ; Almudena Castro ^[2]
1. [1] Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
  
  Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
  
  Madrid, España
2. [2] Hospital Universitario La Paz
  
  Hospital Universitario La Paz
  
  Madrid, España
Localización: The Spanish Journal of Psychology, ISSN 1138-7416, Vol. 19, 2016, 10 págs.
Idioma: inglés
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- 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.