Benefit Finding and Physical Health: Positive Psychological Changes and Enhanced Allostasis

By J. Bower, Carissa A. Low, J. Moskowitz, Saviz Sepah, E. Epel. 2008

86 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Applied Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology

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In Applied Psychology

1. Shelly L. Gable
2. H. T. Reis
3. Eric L. Garland
4. S. Gaylord
5. Barbara L. Fredrickson
6. Richard M. Ryan
7. R. Veenhoven
8. Arnold B. Bakker

In Clinical Psychology

1. Barbara L. Fredrickson
2. Eric L. Garland
3. S. Gaylord
4. H. T. Reis
5. Shelly L. Gable
6. M. Tugade
7. Jennifer Stevens Aubrey
8. M. Tiggemann

In Social Psychology

1. Shelly L. Gable
2. H. T. Reis
3. Eric L. Garland
4. S. Gaylord
5. Barbara L. Fredrickson
6. Sonja Lyubomirsky
7. Arnold B. Bakker
8. Richard M. Ryan

Citations in the corpus

• Good News! Capitalizing on Positive Events in an Interpersonal Context (2010, background): “Although this work has yielded much valuable evidence showing that coping with stressors has important implications for health and well-being (Bower et al., 2008; Taylor & Stanton, 2007), we suggest that reactions to positive events are also influential (Gable & Reis, 2001).”
• Positive Reappraisal Mediates the Stress-Reductive Effects of Mindfulness: An Upward Spiral Process (2011, background): “…benefit-finding) is associated with reduced distress and improved mental health outcomes (Helgeson et al. 2006) and also appears to impact physiological parameters associated with stress (Bower et al. 2008; Carrico et al. 2006; Cruess et al. 2000; McGregor et al. 2004; Tugade and Fredrickson 2004).”