{"id":77929,"date":"2025-11-14T19:14:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T19:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/the-meaning-of-the-disease\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T19:14:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T19:14:27","slug":"the-meaning-of-the-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/the-meaning-of-the-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"The meaning of the disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The concept considered in health psychology and psychosomatics is often defined as the inclusion of a disease, as a significant event in life, in the complex hierarchical system of the mental sphere of a person. In Soviet psychology, the following are distinguished: positive, negative, and ambivalent s.b. Positive meaning is acquired when the disease contributes to the realization of certain motives; A negative meaning arises when an illness prevents the realization of motives. A number of studies study the meanings that the patient puts into his disease: for example, illness as an opportunity, illness as an escape from problems, illness as punishment, illness as overcoming, etc.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The concept considered in health psychology and psychosomatics is often defined as the inclusion of a disease, as a significant event in life, in the complex hierarchical system of the mental sphere of a person. In Soviet psychology, the following are distinguished: positive, negative, and ambivalent s.b. Positive meaning is acquired when the disease contributes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-key-psychological-concepts-in-health-psychology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/psychologydictionary.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}