Journal Article

Post-Traumatic Growth After a Myocardial Infarction: A Matter of Personality, Psychological Health, or Cognitive Coping?

Schroevers, M. J., Somsen, G. A., Garnefski, Nadia, Kraaij, V.

2008

Overview

The aim of the present study was to focus on the relative contributions of personality, psychological health and cognitive coping to post-traumatic growth in patients with recent myocardial infarction (MI). The sample consisted of 139 patients who had experienced a first-time acute MI between 3 and 12 months before data assessment. Multivariate relationships were tested by means of Structural Equation Modeling. The results showed that besides the contribution of personality and psychological health, a significant amount of variance in growth was explained by the cognitive coping strategies people used to handle their MI. As cognitive coping strategies are generally assumed to be mechanisms that are subject to potential influence and change, this provides us with important targets for intervention.

• Publisher: Springer US,Springer Nature B.V
• Subject: Adaptation, Psychological / Adult / Aged / Attitude to Health / Cardiovascular disease / Cognition / Cognitive ability / Comorbidity / Coping / Data processing / Emotions / Family Medicine / Female / General Practice / Health Psychology / Heart attacks / Humans / Internal-External Control / Life Change Events / Male / Mathematical models / Medicine / Medicine & Public Health / Mental depression / Mental Health / Middle Aged / Myocardial infarction / Myocardial Infarction - epidemiology / Myocardial Infarction - psychology / Netherlands - epidemiology / Patients / Personal development / Personal Satisfaction / Personality / Post-traumatic growth / Questionnaires / Secondary education / Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic - epidemiology / Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic - prevention & control / Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic - psychology / Vocational education