Resilience and social support promote posttraumatic growth of women with infertility: The mediating role of positive coping
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According to previous research, clinical experience with individuals facing infertility has demonstrated that positive psychological changes can arise from the struggle involved (Paul et al., 2010), which is called posttraumatic growth (PTG). However, little knowledge has been gained about the relationships between PTG and its facilitating factors. The present study examined whether resilience and social support could predict PTG in women with infertility. The role of positive coping as a potential mediator was also assessed. Using a cross-sectional design, all members of a convenience sample of 182 women with infertility completed self-report measures of PTG, resilience, perceived social support, positive coping and background information. It was found that resilience, social support and positive coping positively correlated with PTG, which explained 34.0% of the total variance. The results suggested that positive coping partially mediated the impact of resilience on PTG while it totally mediated the relationship between social support and PTG. These findings demonstrated that, in clinical settings, improving positive coping in women with infertility may be helpful for the attainment of PTG.
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When facing their wives' illness-related stress, men tend to employ problem-focused or emotion-focused coping strategies and fewer avoidance strategies, resulting in better dyadic coping and quality of life for husbands.
“When facing their wives’ illness-related stress, men tend to employ problem-focused or emotion-focused coping strategies and fewer avoidance strategies,51 which results in better dyadic coping and quality of life for husbands.”
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- Authors
- Yu, Y., Peng, L., Chen, L., Long, L., He, W., Li, M., & Wang, T.
- Affiliations
- Army Medical University (CN)
- Corresponding author
- Li, Min
- Venue
- Psychiatry Research
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2014-02
- Volume
- 215
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 401-405
- ISSN
- 0165-1781 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1970931664
- Cited by
- 156
- References
- 48
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- FWCI
- 7.78
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Psychiatry Research (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Resilience and Mental Health
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Reproductive Medicine › Reproductive Health and Technologies
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Keywords
- posttraumatic growth, infertility, resilience, social support, positive coping, mediation, women, psychological adjustment
- MeSH terms
- Adaptation, Psychological, Adult, Cross-Sectional Studies, Female, Humans, Infertility, Female, Male, Middle Aged, Surveys and Questionnaires, Social Support, Resilience, Psychological, Young Adult, Self Report
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