Howard Tennen

TL;DR: The prevalence and adaptive significance of finding benefits from major medical problems are summarized, the place of benefit-finding in stress and coping theories is located, and how it may be shaped by specific psychological dispositions such as optimism and hope and by broader personality traits such as Extraversion and Openness to Experience are examined.

TL;DR: A progressively convincing characterization of risk and protective factors for favorable adjustment to chronic illness has emerged and critical issues for future research are identified.

TL;DR: The authors describe recent developments in the use of within-person, process-oriented methods that examine individuals intensively over time that provide new opportunities to examine the purported mechanisms of therapeutic interventions.

TL;DR: There was a significant bi‐directional within‐person association between pain attention and sleep quality that was not explained by changes in pain intensity, and a night of poorer sleep was followed by a significantly more painful day.

TL;DR: Etude d'un echantillon de victimes d'une crise cardiaque (N=287) sur une periode de huit ans: mise en evidence des relations entre l'attribution de la causalite, les benefices percus, et la morbidite post-crise.