A meta-analytic review of benefit finding and growth.

By V. Helgeson, Kerry A. Reynolds, P. Tomich. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2006

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, General Health Professions, Social Psychology

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The case for positive emotions in the stress process (2008, background): “Affleck and Tennen's seminal research on benefit finding (see Tennen & Affleck, 2002 for review) and the growing interest of others in the related topic of stress-related growth (Tedeschi, Park, & Calhoun, 1998 ; Park & Ai, 2006 ) has resulted in a substantial literature (for reviews see Linley ”
Handbook of Autoethnography (2021, background): “The interpretive-autoethnographer can note patterns or ruptures, which can take place within the cultural text, in relation to other texts or representations, or in relation to other symbolic, material, or performative bodies.”
Optimism, Social Support, and Coping Strategies As Factors Contributing to Posttraumatic Growth: A Meta-Analysis (2009, background): “Helgeson, Reynolds, and Tomich ( 2006 ) conducted the first meta-analysis in this area, investigating the relation between benefit finding and health outcomes.”
The Path to Posttraumatic Growth Versus Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Contributions of Event Centrality and Coping (2011, background): “This has led to a growing interest in the relationship between positive and negative trauma outcomes (Helgeson, Reynolds, & Tomich, 2006 ; Linley & Joseph, 2006 ) and theories that such positive consequences can exist independently of and simultaneous to negative outcomes (Linley, Joseph, Cooper, ”
Positive psychology in a pandemic: buffering, bolstering, and building mental health (2021, background): “, 1996), and/or post-traumatic growth (Helgeson et al., 2006).”
Positive Reappraisal Mediates the Stress-Reductive Effects of Mindfulness: An Upward Spiral Process (2011, background): “…cognitive coping strategy (alternately conceptualized as 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…”
Does meaning‐making help during organizational change? Development and validation of a new scale (2009, methodology): “From the health psychology literature (e.g. Helgeson et al., 2006; Taylor, 1983) we know that negative events tend to trigger a search for meaning, however, it is less clear what triggers meaning-making.”
Post–traumatic Growth as Positive Personality Change: Evidence, Controversies and Future Directions (2014, methodology): “Second, there is evidence from the meta-analysis of the cross-sectional studies (Helgeson et al., 2006) and some longitudinal work (Danhauer et al., 2013) that post-traumatic growth if measured with a tool considered validated may predict improved psychological and physical health, although this…”
Gender Differences in Self-Reported Posttraumatic Growth: A Meta-Analysis (2010, background): “…may, to some extent, reflect “illusory perceptions of temporal change” (McFarland & Alvaro, 2000, p. 340), there is considerable evidence that self-reported PTG is related to other positive mental health outcomes, including lower rates of depression and positive well-being (Helgeson et al., 2006).”
Posttraumatic Growth in the Aftermath of Trauma: A Literature Review About Related Factors and Application Contexts (2013, background): “In their meta-analysis, Helgeson et al. (2006) elucidated a relation between benefit finding and intrusive thoughts.”