Helping Your Partner with Chronic Pain: The Importance of Helping Motivation, Received Social Support, and Its Timeliness | Zendy

Sara Kindt | Zendy; Maarten Vansteenkiste | Zendy; Haeike Josephy | Zendy; Sónia F. Bernardes | Zendy; Liesbet Goubert | Zendy

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Helping Your Partner with Chronic Pain: The Importance of Helping Motivation, Received Social Support, and Its Timeliness

Author(s) -

Sara Kindt,

Maarten Vansteenkiste,

Haeike Josephy,

Sónia F. Bernardes,

Liesbet Goubert

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

pain medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.893

H-Index - 97

eISSN - 1526-4637

pISSN - 1526-2375

DOI - 10.1093/pm/pny006

Subject(s) - autonomy , social support , competence (human resources) , psychology , chronic pain , self determination theory , social psychology , psychiatry , political science , law

Like all intentional acts, social support provision varies with respect to its underlying motives. Greater autonomous or volitional motives (e.g., enjoyment, full commitment) to help individuals with chronic pain (ICPs) are associated with greater well-being benefits for the latter, as indexed by improved satisfaction of their psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness. The present study investigates the processes explaining why partners' autonomous or volitional helping motivation yields these benefits.

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