Capitalizing on everyday positive events uniquely predicts daily intimacy and well-being in couples coping with breast cancer.
Capitalizing on everyday positive events uniquely predicts daily intimacy and well-being in couples coping with breast cancer.
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10.1037/fam0000042
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2015-02
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Belcher AJ
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Otto AK;Laurenceau JP;Siegel SD;Belcher AJ
资本化是通过与积极的关系伙伴分享积极的生活事件来品味它们的关系过程。本研究的目的是使用二进密集的纵向方法来检查新的假设之间的联系，资本化过程和日常亲密和幸福的女性乳腺癌患者和他们的亲密伴侣。虽然应对癌症的夫妇经常会经历负面日常生活事件的增加，但我们假设，除了分享负面事件外，分享和利用积极事件也很重要。早期乳腺癌女性患者及其亲密伴侣（99对夫妇）连续7至10天完成电子日记，记录彼此分享消极和积极事件的日常过程。二元多层次过程建模显示，在资本化尝试的日子里（即，分享一天中最好的事件）发生时，患者和伴侣的日常亲密感在分享者中更高。此外，对资本化尝试的更大感知伴侣反应（PPR）与分享者日常亲密感的增加和分享者日常负面影响的减少有关。当患者的伴侣是分享者时，PPR也与每日积极情感的增加有关。重要的是，资本化的所有影响都被观察到超过了事件积极性和共享负面事件的影响（即，社会支持）。研究结果表明，即使在重大的生活逆境中，与亲密伴侣分享每日好消息，也能独立于分享坏消息，提高关系幸福感。
Capitalization is the relational process of savoring positive life events by sharing them with responsive relationship partners. The purpose of the present study was to use dyadic intensive longitudinal methods to examine novel hypotheses regarding links between capitalization processes and daily intimacy and well-being in women with breast cancer and their intimate partners. While couples coping with cancer often experience an increase in negative daily life events, we hypothesized that it would be important for them also to share and capitalize on positive events in addition to sharing negative events. Female patients with early-stage breast cancer and their intimate partners (99 couples) completed electronic daily diaries for 7 to 10 consecutive days tapping everyday processes of sharing negative and positive events with each other. Dyadic multilevel process modeling revealed that on days when capitalization attempts (i.e., sharing the best event of the day) occurred, daily feelings of intimacy in the sharer were higher for both patients and partners. Moreover, greater perceived partner responsiveness (PPR) to capitalization attempts was associated with increases in the sharer’s daily feelings of intimacy and decreases in the sharer’s daily negative affect. When the patient’s partner was the sharer, PPR was also associated with increased daily positive affect. Importantly, all effects of capitalization were observed above and beyond the effects of event positivity and sharing negative events (i.e., social support attempts). Findings suggest that, even in the midst of significant life adversity, sharing daily good news with intimate partners enhances relationship well-being independently of sharing bad news.