RT Journal Article
T1 Fibromyalgia: Evidence for Deficits in Positive Psychology Resources. A Case-Control Study from the Al-Ándalus 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
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 withfibromyalgia (cases) and age-matched peers without fibromyalgia (controls). This case–control studyincluded 437 women with fibromyalgia (51.6 ± 7.1 years old) and 206 age-matched women withoutfibromyalgia (50.6 ± 7.2 years old). Participants self-reported their levels of (i) subjective well-beingon the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule and the Satisfaction with Life Scale, (ii) dispositionaloptimism 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 andemotional 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 ≥ 0.80) and small-to-moderate for emotionalrepair and optimism (both, Cohen’s d ≥ 0.50). Women with fibromyalgia experience deficits ofpositive psychology resources. Thus, developing tailored therapies for fibromyalgia focusing onreducing deficits in positive psychology resources may be of clinical interest, though this remains tobe corroborated in future research
PB MDPI
SN 1660-4601 (electrónico)
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/20304
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/20304
LA eng
NO Arrayás-Grajera, M. J., Tornero-Quiñones, I., Gavilán-Carrera, B., Luque-Reca, O., Peñacoba-Puente, C., Sierra-Robles, Á., Carbonell-Baeza, A., & Estévez-López, F. (2021). Fibromyalgia: Evidence for Deficits in Positive Psychology Resources. A Case-Control Study from the Al-Ándalus Project. In International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (Vol. 18, Issue 22, p. 12021). MDPI AG. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph182212021
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 programmeunder the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 707404. The funders of this study did nothave any role in the study design, data collection and analyses, decision to publish or preparation ofthe manuscriptWe would like to thank the researchers of the cts-1018 research group, particularly Manuel Delgado-Fernández, and acknowledge the “Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndromeand Chemistry Sensibility Federation” (“ALBA ANDALUCIA”, association of fibromyalgia, Andalucía, southern Spain
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 13 jul 2026