Benefit finding in adult cancer populations: Psychometric properties and performance of existing instruments

The Benefit Finding Questionnaire (BFQ): Scale Development, Validation, and Its Psychometric Properties Among People with Mental Illness

“…Some researchers interpret benefit finding as a positively oriented emotional coping strategy in adversity [ 6 , 7 ]. In this light, benefit finding is described as a positive reappraisal process that can facilitate positive coping emotions and behaviors among people going through life-changing experiences [ 5 , 8 ]. In other words, benefit finding has also been conceptualized as a construction of positive meaning-making [ 9 , 10 ].…”

Psychological Characteristics and Traits for Finding Benefit From Prostate Cancer

“…21,23 While psychological traits and characteristics reported to be associated with the capacity to find benefit have been studied in various forms in cancer populations, there remains inconsistent evidence about which traits and characteristics are associated with and predictive of finding benefit among adult cancer populations, broadly and specifically in prostate cancer. 24 Studies examining traits and characteristics as associations, covariates, and predictors for finding benefit in adult cancer populations, as measured by the 17-item Benefit Finding Scale, 25 the most commonly used scale in adult cancer populations, 26 are few. 26 Psychological characteristics and traits reported by adult cancer populations to be influential for finding benefit have been described to include optimism, 25,27Y31 anxiety and depression, 27Y30,32,33 and distress.…”

“…24 Studies examining traits and characteristics as associations, covariates, and predictors for finding benefit in adult cancer populations, as measured by the 17-item Benefit Finding Scale, 25 the most commonly used scale in adult cancer populations, 26 are few. 26 Psychological characteristics and traits reported by adult cancer populations to be influential for finding benefit have been described to include optimism, 25,27Y31 anxiety and depression, 27Y30,32,33 and distress. 30 Regarding optimism, the literature suggests that individuals who have an optimistic outlook on life more readily extract a sense of benefit or gain even when they are faced with adverse or traumatic events, 18,31 thereby adding empirical evidence to the view that being optimistic is an important prerequisite to an individual's capacity for finding benefit.…”

Psychometric investigation of benefit finding among long-term cancer survivors using the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey

“…Additionally, the original development of these measures did not use a bifactor model (Holzinger & Swineford, 1937) and reported five to eight factors. A review of other benefit finding instruments found some were unidimensional and others were multidimensional (Pascoe & Edvardsson, 2014). It is unclear whether benefit-finding and post-traumatic growth represent one, multi-faceted construct or different yet related constructs.…”

“…Studying benefit finding in larger studies is challenging due to the length of the measures of benefit finding, which range from 14 items to 43 items (Pascoe & Edvardsson, 2014). In large epidemiologic and population based surveys, measures for a single construct have to be short due to the need to assess multiple constructs in one survey.…”