Abstract
The purpose of the present study was to explore the associations among benefit finding, daily positive and negative emotion, and daily cortisol slope in 71 maternal caregivers. Benefit finding was measured using the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI; Tedeschi, R. G., & Calhoun, L. G. (1996). The Posttraumatic Growth Inventory: Measuring the positive legacy of trauma. Journal of Traumatic Stress 9, 455–472.). Cortisol slope was not significantly correlated with any of the PTGI subscales, positive emotion, or negative emotion. However, the interactions of daily positive emotion with the PTGI subscales of Personal Strength, Appreciation of Life, and Spiritual Change were statistically significant such that higher scores on these subscales predicted a steeper (more adaptive) daily cortisol slope only for those women who also had higher levels of daily positive emotion.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 83-91 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Journal of Positive Psychology |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Apr 2006 |
Funding
This study was supported by NIMH/NINR grant MH58069, NIH grant M01-RR1271, the Positive Psychology Network, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Network on Socioeconomic Status and Health.
Keywords
- Diurnal cortisol
- Positive emotion
- Posttraumatic growth
- Stress related growth
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Psychology