@article{10272/20304,
year = {2021},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10272/20304},
abstract = {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 ± 7.1 years old) and 206 age-matched women without
fibromyalgia (50.6 ± 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 ≥ 0.80) and small-to-moderate for emotional
repair and optimism (both, Cohen’s d ≥ 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},
organization = {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 Skłodowska-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
We would like to thank the researchers of the cts-1018 research group, particularly Manuel Delgado-Fernández, and acknowledge the “Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
and Chemistry Sensibility Federation” (“ALBA ANDALUCIA”, association of fibromyalgia, Andalucía, southern Spain},
publisher = {MDPI},
keywords = {Vulnerability (psychological)},
keywords = {Subjective well-being},
keywords = {Resilience (psychological)},
keywords = {Chronic pain},
keywords = {Emotional intelligence},
keywords = {Fibromyalgia},
keywords = {Persistent physical symptoms},
title = {Fibromyalgia: Evidence for Deficits in Positive Psychology Resources. A Case-Control Study from the Al-Ándalus Project},
doi = {10.3390/ijerph182212021},
author = {Arrayás Grajera, Manuel Javier and Tornero Quiñones, Inmaculada and Gavilán Carrera, Blanca and Luque Reca, Octavio and Peñacoba Puente, Cecilia and Sierra Robles, Ángela and Carbonell Baeza, Ana and Estévez López, Fernando},
}