Chronic illnesses such as cancer, diabetes, and chronic pain often create intense and pervasive stress. Although much research has focused on the importance of coping in managing chronic illness, the importance of controllability appraisals in determining the efficacy of various coping strategies (i.e., the ‘goodness-of-fit hypothesis;’ Lazarus & Folkman, 1984) for individuals living with chronic illness has yet to be established. To evaluate support for the goodness-of-fit hypothesis, we conducted a systematic literature review, identifying and synthesizing results of 15 studies that reported on conditional effects of problem-, emotion-, and meaning-focused coping strategies, depending on controllability appraisals. Results across studies were mixed, with some coping strategies but not others demonstrating significant interaction effects with controllability appraisals in models predicting psychological and physiological markers of health. Studies demonstrated considerable heterogeneity in design and measurement, with the majority reliant on cross-sectional design and thus unable to infer temporality in the effects of coping on adjustment. In addition, lack of consensus regarding the measurement and categorization of coping precluded definitive conclusions regarding contextual effects of many strategies. To better understand these patterns of coping as they unfold in daily experience, future work should incorporate contemporary methods such as experience sampling and multilevel statistical modeling.

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控制应对的适应度和慢性病：文献的系统评价

诸如癌症，糖尿病和慢性疼痛之类的慢性疾病通常会产生强烈而无处不在的压力。尽管许多研究集中于应对在应对慢性病中的重要性，但可控性评估对确定各种应对策略（即“拟合优度假说”； Lazarus＆Folkman，1984）的有效性的重要性慢性病尚未建立。为了评估对拟合优度假说的支持，我们进行了系统的文献综述，确定和综合了15项研究的结果，这些研究报告了以可控性评估为基础的针对问题，情感和意义的应对策略的条件效应。研究结果参差不齐，某些应对策略，但没有其他策略表明，在预测健康的心理和生理指标的模型中，可控性评估具有显着的交互作用。研究表明，设计和测量存在很大的异质性，其中大多数依赖于横断面设计，因此无法推断应对对调整的影响的时间性。此外，在应对措施的测量和分类方面缺乏共识，因此无法得出关于许多策略的环境效应的明确结论。为了更好地理解这些应对方式在日常经验中的发展，未来的工作应采用当代方法，例如经验抽样和多层次统计建模。