Secondary traumatic stress and posttraumatic growth: Social support as a moderator

Benefit finding and well-being in older adults: The utility of the General Benefit Finding Scale.

“…The big surprise, with respect to the psychosocial factors, was that no correlation was found between benefit finding total score and social support from family. This contradicts other recent research (Boehmer, Glickman, Winter, & Clark, 2014;Brand, Barry, & Gallagher, 2016;Dunn, Occhipinti, Campbell, Ferguson, & Chambers, 2011;Măirean, 2016) but does lend support to a recent systematic review which found that evidence for the influence of social support on benefit-finding levels was inconclusive (Pascoe & Edvardsson, 2013). This finding suggests that, in terms of benefit finding, the perceived support from friends may be more important than that of family members and concurs with Huxhold, Miche, and Schüz (2013) ) who found that, as people age, social interaction with friends becomes more important than with family members, and can serve to protect against some of the negative effects of aging.…”

Burnout and perceived social support: The mediating role of secondary traumatization in nurses vs. physicians

“…That is, PSS was higher for nurses compared with physicians, but no significant differences emerged between the two groups regarding STS. As for PSS, in relation to medical staff, supportive interactions within an individual's social system, both at work and elsewhere, provide important opportunities to discuss a critical event and attribute meaning to experiences (M˘airean, ). Nevertheless, studies have shown that physicians might experience client/patient confidentiality as a considerable barrier to social support from their professional and personal network (Løvseth & Aasland, ; Løvseth, Aasland, & Götestam, ).…”

Secondary traumatic stress, vicarious posttraumatic growth and their association in emergency room physicians and nurses

“…by increasing the value of friends/family, changing self-views or worldviews. Accordingly, growth in emergency room nurses may not directly stem from their STS but, rather, is speculated to stem from other factors, such as the nurses’ level of professional self-esteem (Taubman-Ben-Ari & Weintroub, 2008 ), social support (Măirean, 2016 ), and meaning in work (Gómez-Salgado, Navarro-Abal, López-López, Romero-Martín, & Climent-Rodríguez, 2019 ). In line with these speculations, nurses with low experience levels and thus, likely had lower social support, lower professional esteem and less meaning in work did show an STS-VPTG association, provided their workload was low (see Kjellenberg et al, 2014 ).…”

“…In a study sampling different hospital departments in Romania, a negative STS-VPTG correlation was observed in nurses, i.e. lower STS was linked with higher VPTG (Măirean, 2016 ). In another study (Kjellenberg, Nilsson, Daukantaite, & Cardena, 2014 ), medical personnel working with war survivors showed the aforementioned typical (positive) linear STS-VPTG association.…”