RT journal article
T1 Fibromyalgia: Evidence for Deficits in Positive Psychology Resources. A Case-Control Study from the Al-andalus Project
A1 Arrayás-Grajera, Manuel Javier
A1 Tornero-Quiñones, Inmaculada
A1 Gavilán Carrera, Blanca
A1 Luque Reca, Octavio
A1 Peñacoba Puente, Cecilia
A1 Sierra-Robles, Ángela
A1 Carbonell Baeza, Ana
A1 Estévez López, Fernando
A2 Didáctica de la Educación FísicaPlástica y Musical
K1 chronic pain
K1 emotional intelligence
K1 fibromyalgia
K1 persistent physical symptoms
K1 resilience (psychological)
K1 subjective well-being
K1 vulnerability (psychological)
AB Positive psychology is the study of positive subjective experience and individual traits. Identifying deficits in positive psychology regarding fibromyalgia may inform targets for management. Therefore, the aim of the present case-control study was to compare the levels of positive affect, negative affect, satisfaction with life, optimism and emotional repair in a large sample of women with fibromyalgia (cases) and age-matched peers without fibromyalgia (controls). This case-control study included 437 women with fibromyalgia (51.6 & PLUSMN; 7.1 years old) and 206 age-matched women without fibromyalgia (50.6 & PLUSMN; 7.2 years old). Participants self-reported their levels of (i) subjective well-being on the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule and the Satisfaction with Life Scale, (ii) dispositional optimism on the Life Orientation Test-Revised and (iii) emotional repair on the Trait Meta-Mood Scale. Women with fibromyalgia showed lower levels of positive affect, satisfaction with life, optimism and emotional repair and higher levels of negative affect. Large effect sizes were found for positive affect, negative affect and satisfaction with life (all, Cohen's d & GE; 0.80) and small-to-moderate for emotional repair and optimism (both, Cohen's d & GE; 0.50). Women with fibromyalgia experience deficits of positive psychology resources. Thus, developing tailored therapies for fibromyalgia focusing on reducing deficits in positive psychology resources may be of clinical interest, though this remains to be corroborated in future research.
PB MDPI
SN 1660-4601
YR 2021
FD 2021-11
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/26146
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/26146
LA eng
NO This work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (I+D+i DEP2010-15639, I+D+I DEP2013-40908); the Spanish Ministry of Education (FPU15/00002), Excellence actions: Units of Excellence; Unit of Excellence on Exercise and Health (UCEES). F.E.-L. has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 707404. The funders of this study did not have any role in the study design, data collection and analyses, decision to publish or preparation of the manuscript.
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 08-nov-2026