Key result
Palliative coping showed reciprocal influences with negative affect, whereas salutary coping increased positive affect but was decreased by it at the first lag among post-MI patients.
Observational (n=133)
In post-myocardial infarction patients, palliative coping may be a behavioral manifestation of negative affect, whereas salutary coping actively increases positive affect.
Should not yet change post-MI coping support; leaves open bidirectional dynamics for prospective trials.
The purpose of the study was to verify whether two kinds of emotion-focused coping, namely strategies aimed at reducing negative emotions (palliative coping [PC]) and strategies aimed at inducing positive emotions (salutary coping [SC]) are related longitudinally to relevant affective states. Positive and negative state affects were assessed among 133 cardiac patients, along with coping strategies at three time points: a few days after myocardial infarction, one and 6 months later. Due to SC stability, the correlated change with affect was estimated only for PC, but the directionality was examined in all four affect-coping pairs. For uncomplementary pairs, the models with diagonal paths equal to zero fitted the data best. For the first complementary pair, i.e., negative affect-PC, reciprocal influences were revealed with both starting points and the amount of decline positively correlated. For the second pair, i.e., positive affect-SC, strategies consequently increased affect, whereas affect decreased SC, but only at first lag. Concluding, PC may be a behavioral manifestation of negative affect rather than reflective goal-oriented efforts. Although the relation between SC and positive affect is more complex, it still supports the idea of distinctiveness within the scope of emotion-focused coping.
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Ewa Gruszczyńska (2011) conducted an observational in Myocardial infarction (n=133). Emotion-focused coping (palliative and salutary coping) was evaluated on Longitudinal relationship between emotion-focused coping strategies and affective states. Palliative coping showed reciprocal influences with negative affect, whereas salutary coping increased positive affect but was decreased by it at the first lag among post-MI patients.
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