Positive affect and meaning-focused coping during significant psychological stress

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The case for positive emotions in the stress process (2008, background): “…list to include findings from reports in the rapidly expanding literature and our own subsequent work, resulting in five categories: benefit finding, benefit reminding, adaptive goal processes, reordering priorities, and infusing ordinary events with positive meaning (Folkman & Moskowitz, 2007).”
Effective Stress Management (2012, background): “A number of stress researchers have identified positive affect as a key component for effective appraisal of and coping with stressful situations (e.g., Folkman & Moskowitz, 2000, 2007).”
Assessing meaning and meaning making in the context of stressful life events: Measurement tools and approaches (2013, background): “…to understand the situation in a different way, such as making positive reinterpretations and reattributions and trying to accept the situation (Folkman & Moskowitz, 2007), and automatic or unconscious processes such as repeated intrusive thoughts (Greenberg, 1995; Horowitz, 1986).1 According…”