Stress, savouring, and coping: The role of savouring in psychological adjustment following a stressful life event
Autor: | Ashley Breadman, Tim Fulton, Christina Samios, Kate Newton, Justin Catania |
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Rok vydání: | 2019 |
Předmět: |
Adult
Male 050103 clinical psychology Coping (psychology) Emotions Life Change Events Instrumental support 0502 economics and business Adaptation Psychological medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Applied Psychology Savoring 05 social sciences Avoidance coping Life events Positive coping Life satisfaction Social Support General Medicine Protective Factors Self Concept Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Mental Health Anxiety Female medicine.symptom Psychology 050203 business & management Stress Psychological Clinical psychology |
Zdroj: | Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of StressREFERENCES. 36(2) |
ISSN: | 1532-2998 |
Popis: | There is increasing research on the role of savouring positive emotional experience in the context of stress. As such, we need a better understanding of how savouring and coping relate to each other and to psychological adjustment outcomes following a stressful life event. In particular, this study seeks to understand whether savouring is better conceptualized as a coping resource or a coping response. Three hundred people who experienced a highly stressful event in the past year completed measures of impact of event, savouring, coping, positive emotions, depression, anxiety, and life satisfaction. Results of bivariate correlations showed that savouring is positively correlated with positive coping (i.e., mastery and meaning-based coping) and socially-supported coping (i.e., using emotional and instrumental support) and negatively correlated with negative coping (i.e., self-judgement and avoidance coping). The results of path analyses support a model that positions savouring as a coping response that relates to other coping responses and indirectly relates to better psychological adjustment through positive emotions (when psychological adjustment is conceptualized as depression or life satisfaction but not anxiety). Findings provide preliminary support for conceptualizing savouring as a coping response; future research should consider measuring savouring as a coping response to further our understanding of savouring following a stressful life event. |
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