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Sheindy Pretter - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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stress related Growth among women living with hiv aids examination of an explanatory model
Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 2005Co-Authors: Karolynn Siegel, Eric W Schrimshaw, Sheindy PretterAbstract:Despite the increasing interest in the perceived benefits or Growth resulting from stress and illness, there has been little investigation of the correlates of this Stress-Related Growth, particularly among HIV-infected individuals. Following the Schaefer and Moos model (1992;1998), the association of affective states, coping, stressor characteristics, individual resources, and social resources with Stress-Related Growth was examined among 138 women living with HIV/AIDS. Most women (63%) reported high levels of Growth. Multivariate analyses revealed that positive reappraisal coping, and emotional support were associated with higher levels of Growth, and depressive affect was negatively associated with Growth. In addition, African American women reported more Stress-Related Growth than that reported by White women. Stressor characteristics (i.e., disease stage, number of physical symptoms, and time since HIV diagnosis), self-esteem, perceived control, practical support, and positive affect were not associated with Growth. These findings suggest that Stress-Related Growth is more than positive reappraisal and the absence of negative affect, and that social resources may facilitate greater Growth.
Crystal L Park - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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spiritual struggle and adjustment to loss in college students moderation by denomination
International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, 2012Co-Authors: Jennifer H Wortmann, Crystal L Park, Donald EdmondsonAbstract:During their college years, students experience a variety of life transitions, including significant gains and losses. Spiritual transformations and struggles surrounding religious faith are also common during college. Despite its prominence, little is known about how spiritual struggle influences college students' adjustment to loss and whether the relationship differs by religious denomination. In a longitudinal study of college students dealing with personally significant losses, the authors assessed how spiritual struggle was related to negative (symptoms of posttraumatic stress and depression) and positive (Stress-Related Growth and life satisfaction) aspects of adjustment and whether denomination moderated these relationships. Results indicated that struggle has a powerful adverse impact on adjustment. Further, denomination moderated the relationship of struggle with posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms concurrently and after a 2-month lag, such that spiritual struggle appeared particularly toxic ...
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stress related Growth predictors of occurrence and correlates with psychological adjustment
Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, 2004Co-Authors: Crystal L Park, Juliane R FensterAbstract:Abstract Although stressful experiences can lead to many negative consequences, the processes involved in confronting them may also promote broadened perspectives, new coping skills, deepened relationships, and the development of personal resources. The present study examined the processes through which such Growth may occur and the relationship of this Growth to adjustment as reflected in changes in personal resources and psychological adjustment over time. Ninety-four college students completed measures of personal resources and adjustment. Six months later, they completed a second set of measures that also included questions about their most stressful experience in the past six months as well as cognitive processing, coping, and Growth related to the stressor. Results suggested that specific coping processes (resources, appraisals, and coping activities) and, to a lesser extent, cognitive processing, were related to Growth. Stress-Related Growth predicted increases in personal resources and positive st...
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assessment and prediction of stress related Growth
Journal of Personality, 1996Co-Authors: Crystal L Park, Lawrence H Cohen, Renee L MurchAbstract:This article reports the development of the Stress-Related Growth Scale (SRGS) atid its use in a study examining determinants of stress- related positive outcomes for college students. Study 1 analyses showed that the SRGS has acceptable internal and test-retest reliability and that scores are not influenced by social desirability. Study 2 analyses showed that college stu- dents' SRGS responses were significantly related to those provided by friends and relatives on their behalf. Study 3 analyses tested tbe determinants of stress- related Growth longitudinally. Significant predictors of the SRGS were (a) intrinsic religiousness; {b) social support satisfaction; (c) stressfulness of tbe negative event; {d) positive reinterpretation and acceptance coping; and (e) number of recent positive life events. Tbe SRGS was also positively related to residual cbange in optimism, positive affectivity, number of socially supportive otbers, and social support satisfaction, lending furtber support to tbe validity of tbis new scale. Results bave implications for current tbeory on Stress-Related positive outcomes.
Renee L Murch - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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assessment and prediction of stress related Growth
Journal of Personality, 1996Co-Authors: Crystal L Park, Lawrence H Cohen, Renee L MurchAbstract:This article reports the development of the Stress-Related Growth Scale (SRGS) atid its use in a study examining determinants of stress- related positive outcomes for college students. Study 1 analyses showed that the SRGS has acceptable internal and test-retest reliability and that scores are not influenced by social desirability. Study 2 analyses showed that college stu- dents' SRGS responses were significantly related to those provided by friends and relatives on their behalf. Study 3 analyses tested tbe determinants of stress- related Growth longitudinally. Significant predictors of the SRGS were (a) intrinsic religiousness; {b) social support satisfaction; (c) stressfulness of tbe negative event; {d) positive reinterpretation and acceptance coping; and (e) number of recent positive life events. Tbe SRGS was also positively related to residual cbange in optimism, positive affectivity, number of socially supportive otbers, and social support satisfaction, lending furtber support to tbe validity of tbis new scale. Results bave implications for current tbeory on Stress-Related positive outcomes.
Karolynn Siegel - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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stress related Growth among women living with hiv aids examination of an explanatory model
Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 2005Co-Authors: Karolynn Siegel, Eric W Schrimshaw, Sheindy PretterAbstract:Despite the increasing interest in the perceived benefits or Growth resulting from stress and illness, there has been little investigation of the correlates of this Stress-Related Growth, particularly among HIV-infected individuals. Following the Schaefer and Moos model (1992;1998), the association of affective states, coping, stressor characteristics, individual resources, and social resources with Stress-Related Growth was examined among 138 women living with HIV/AIDS. Most women (63%) reported high levels of Growth. Multivariate analyses revealed that positive reappraisal coping, and emotional support were associated with higher levels of Growth, and depressive affect was negatively associated with Growth. In addition, African American women reported more Stress-Related Growth than that reported by White women. Stressor characteristics (i.e., disease stage, number of physical symptoms, and time since HIV diagnosis), self-esteem, perceived control, practical support, and positive affect were not associated with Growth. These findings suggest that Stress-Related Growth is more than positive reappraisal and the absence of negative affect, and that social resources may facilitate greater Growth.
Lisa M Perez - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the many methods of religious coping development and initial validation of the rcope
Journal of Clinical Psychology, 2000Co-Authors: Kenneth I Pargament, Harold G Koenig, Lisa M PerezAbstract:The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a new theoretically based measure that would assess the full range of religious coping methods, including potentially helpful and harmful religious expressions. The RCOPE was tested on a large sample of college students who were coping with a significant negative life event. Factor analysis of the RCOPE in the college sample yielded factors largely consistent with the conceptualization and construction of the subscales. Confirmatory factor analysis of the RCOPE in a large sample of hospitalized elderly patients was moderately supportive of the initial factor structure. Results of regression analyses showed that religious coping accounted for significant unique variance in measures of adjustment (Stress-Related Growth, religious outcome, physical health, mental health, and emotional distress) after controlling for the effects of demographics and global religious measures (frequency of prayer, church attendance, and religious salience). Better adjustment was related to a number of coping methods, such as benevolent religious reappraisals, religious forgiveness/purification, and seeking religious support. Poorer adjustment was associated with reappraisals of God's powers, spiritual discontent, and punishing God reappraisals. The results suggest that the RCOPE may be useful to researchers and practitioners interested in a comprehensive assessment of religious coping and in a more complete integration of religious and spiritual dimensions in the process of counseling.