PMID- 32276662
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20200831
LR  - 20200831
IS  - 1477-7525 (Electronic)
IS  - 1477-7525 (Linking)
VI  - 18
IP  - 1
DP  - 2020 Apr 10
TI  - Subjective well-being, general self-efficacy and coping with stress in former 
      psychiatric patients preparing for the peer support role: an exploratory study.
PG  - 98
LID - 10.1186/s12955-020-01348-6 [doi]
LID - 98
AB  - BACKGROUND: People who experienced a mental crisis are involved in providing care 
      for others who face psychiatric hospitalization. The idea of peer workforce has 
      been developed mostly in American and European behavioral health systems. Similar 
      program is implemented to Polish mental health care. The purpose of the study was 
      to find out if candidates for peer support workers with different levels of 
      subjective well-being differed also in terms of general self-efficacy and in the 
      ways of coping with stress. METHODS: As the problem has not been studied before 
      exploratory study was conducted. The study covered a group of 72 subjects, 46 
      women and 26 men, aged 21-62 years (M = 41.43; SD = 10.37), former psychiatric 
      patients, preparing for a peer worker role. We used the following questionnaires: 
      Ryff's Psychological Well-Being (PWB) Scales, in the Polish adaptation by Krok, 
      the General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSES) by Schwarzer and Jerusalem, in adaptation 
      by Schwarzer, Jerusalem and Juczynski and Brief-COPE by Carver, in adaptation by 
      Juczynski and Oginska-Bulik. RESULTS: The results of cluster analysis pointed to 
      the existence of two groups of individuals with significantly different levels of 
      subjective well-being. Then MANOVA was used. It was determined that individuals 
      with a higher level of well-being were characterized by a higher level of 
      self-efficacy, a higher tendency to use positive reframing strategy and 
      propensity towards active behavior when coping with stress, as well as by a lower 
      propensity towards self-blaming and behavioral disengagement. CONCLUSIONS: The 
      study demonstrates that further empirical explorations are justified. The results 
      also encourage a search for some more possible conditions of well-being. It would 
      be advisable to train candidates for mental health peer workers by focusing on 
      the strengthening of their subjective well being and developing active forms of 
      coping with stress.
FAU - Chudzicka-Czupala, Agata
AU  - Chudzicka-Czupala A
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-6517-5018
AD  - SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Faculty of Psychology in 
      Katowice, Department of Social and Organizational Behavior Psychology, ul. 
      Technikow 9, 40-326, Katowice, Poland. achudzicka-czupala@swps.edu.pl.
FAU - Zalewska-Lunkiewicz, Karolina
AU  - Zalewska-Lunkiewicz K
AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-5130-8510
AD  - SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Faculty of Psychology in 
      Katowice, Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, ul. Technikow 9, 40-326, 
      Katowice, Poland.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20200410
PL  - England
TA  - Health Qual Life Outcomes
JT  - Health and quality of life outcomes
JID - 101153626
SB  - IM
MH  - *Adaptation, Psychological
MH  - Adult
MH  - Female
MH  - Health Personnel/education/organization & administration/psychology
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Mental Disorders/*therapy
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - *Peer Group
MH  - Poland
MH  - Quality of Life/psychology
MH  - *Self Efficacy
MH  - Stress, Psychological/psychology
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
MH  - Young Adult
PMC - PMC7146947
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Coping with stress
OT  - Peer workers
OT  - Psychiatric patients
OT  - Self-efficacy
OT  - Subjective well-being
COIS- The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
EDAT- 2020/04/12 06:00
MHDA- 2020/09/01 06:00
PMCR- 2020/04/10
CRDT- 2020/04/12 06:00
PHST- 2019/12/07 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2020/04/02 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2020/04/12 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2020/04/12 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2020/09/01 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2020/04/10 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.1186/s12955-020-01348-6 [pii]
AID - 1348 [pii]
AID - 10.1186/s12955-020-01348-6 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Health Qual Life Outcomes. 2020 Apr 10;18(1):98. doi: 10.1186/s12955-020-01348-6.