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Psychosocial adjustment to breast ca...

Schonholtz, Jacqueline K.

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Psychosocial adjustment to breast cancer: The role of marital support and approach coping.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Psychosocial adjustment to breast cancer: The role of marital support and approach coping./
作者:	Schonholtz, Jacqueline K.
面頁冊數:	162 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 61-04, Section: B, page: 2221.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International61-04B.
標題:	Psychology, Clinical. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9968785
ISBN:	0599735570

Psychosocial adjustment to breast cancer: The role of marital support and approach coping.
Schonholtz, Jacqueline K.

Psychosocial adjustment to breast cancer: The role of marital support and approach coping. - 162 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 61-04, Section: B, page: 2221.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Walden University, 2000.

This quantitative correlational study examined the role of approach coping and marital support in predicting psychosocial adjustment in 21 married women receiving chemotherapy for breast cancer. Psychosocial adjustment was assessed with the Psychosocial Adjustment to Illness Scale, a measure of overall adjustment to illness. Approach coping was assessed with the Coping Responses Inventory, an inventory that measures coping strategies for dealing with a stressful event. Marital support was assessed with the Family Relationships Index, a measure of relationship functioning that focuses on the amount of togetherness, open communication, and conflict in the marriage. The independent variables of approach coping and marital adjustment were entered in a stepwise regression with psychosocial adjustment as the criterion variable. Results showed that approach coping and marital support explained a large portion of the variance in psychosocial adjustment. Further simple regressions showed that each of these variables explained a significant amount of the variance in psychosocial adjustment, with marital support being the stronger predictor. Taken together, these results indicate that those women who experienced greater marital support, and those who employed a higher percentage of approach coping strategies, had better psychosocial adjustment to their breast cancer. Results from Pearson correlations showed that approach coping and marital support are highly correlated with each other, indicating that those women who experienced greater marital support were more likely to have employed approach coping strategies. Additional simple regressions showed that a linear combination of cohesion, expressivity, and conflict explained a significant portion of the variance in psychosocial adjustment. Furthermore, each of thew variables alone were significant predictors of psychosocial adjustment, with cohesion being the strongest predictor. These results indicate that those women who perceived their spouses as helpful, and had marriages characterized by open, honest communication without angry verbal interaction, had better psychosocial adjustment to their breast cancer. Future researchers should identify factors known to promote adjustment, thus providing an empirical basis for intervention. Psychosocial interventions can then be tailored to focus on these specific variables to more effectively meet the needs of cancer patients.

ISBN: 0599735570Subjects--Topical Terms:

524864
Psychology, Clinical.

Psychosocial adjustment to breast cancer: The role of marital support and approach coping.
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