Comparing Coping Styles in Cancer Patients and Healthy Subjects

Ahadi, Hasan; Delavar, Ali; Rostami, Amir Masoud

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.01.785

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“…Although adjustment to cancer refers to how patients cope with a cancer-related problem at specific points in time, ways of coping and their adaptational outcomes are separate concepts [ 49 ]. Indeed, coping styles are enduring dispositions that drive habitual appraisal and coping endeavors [ 50 ] and correlate with psychosocial outcomes in cancer patients [ 51 , 52 ]. Positive thinking is one of such styles that has been extensively studied [ 28 , 53 ].…”

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Biopsychosocial Correlates of Adjustment to Cancer during Chemotherapy: The Key Role of Health-Related Quality of Life

Lauriola

Tomai

2019

The Scientific World Journal

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Background. Patients adjust to cancer in a continuous process that follows the course of the disease. Previous research has considered several illness-related variables and demographics, quality of life, personality, and social factors as predictors of adjustment to cancer, which can be maladaptive (e.g., helplessness-hopelessness and anxious preoccupation) or adaptive (e.g., fighting spirit). Aims. Assuming a biopsychosocial view, we test an empirical model in which disease stage, patient’s age, and gender are viewed as the distal antecedents of positive and negative adjustment to cancer for chemotherapy patients. Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) has a key role, interposing between the distal antecedents and adaptational outcomes. Social support and positive thinking are also included in the model as related to adjustment. Methods. One-hundred-sixty-two consecutive cancer patients receiving adjuvant or standard chemotherapy participated in the study. Patients completed the Mini-Mental Adjustment to Cancer, the Brief-COPE, the Social Provision Scale, and the SF-12 Health Survey. Partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) was applied for model building and hypotheses testing. Results. We found a negative association between advanced stage and physical functioning, a strong positive link between physical functioning and mental health, and significant relations between mental health and helpless-hopelessness, anxious preoccupation, and cognitive avoidance. Social support and positive thinking were related to fighting spirit and fatalism. Cancer stage and female gender were indirectly associated with adaptational outcomes through HRQoL. The patient’s age had no significant relationships in the model. Discussion. HRQoL (both physical and mental) is a key factor for preventing maladjustment in chemotherapy patients. Social support and positive thinking coping style fosters fighting spirit and fatalism on health outcomes. Two potential lines of action seem promising: preventing maladaptive and promoting adaptive adjustments working on patient’s mental health individually and involving significant others in supportive care, respectively.

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Biopsychosocial Correlates of Adjustment to Cancer during Chemotherapy: The Key Role of Health-Related Quality of Life

Lauriola

Tomai

2019

The Scientific World Journal

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“…Significant literature has explored the extent to which individual characteristics can ameliorate the negative aspects of treatment (Burton, Galatzer‐Levy, & Bonanno, ; Johansson, Rydén, Ahlberg, & Finizia, ). This has typically focused on diagnosis and the early treatment period and has been informed by coping models that incorporate an appraisal process e.g., Lazarus and Folkman's Transactional Model of Stress and Coping (Ahadi, Delavar, & Rostami, ; Hulbert‐Williams, Morrison, Wilkinson, & Neal, ; Laubmeier & Zakowski, ). Whilst acknowledging that coping is a dynamic process which varies over time and in response to different stressors, these studies highlight a range of active coping strategies consistently associated with reduced psychological distress and improved well‐being (Hopman & Rijken, ; Merluzzi et al., ; Ng, Mohamed, Sulaiman, & Zainal, ).…”

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Being in safe hands: Patients’ perceptions of how cancer services may support psychological well‐being

Appleton

Poole

Wall

2018

Journal of Advanced Nursing

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“…Coping efforts may minimize or prevent negative emotional, behavioral, cognitive, and physiological responses to a stressor (Guardino & Schetter, ). Coping style refers to more consistent tendencies to cope in particular ways (Ahadi, Delavar, & Rostami, ). This conception treats coping as a relatively stable trait and contrasts with the contextual approach to coping, which views coping processes as situation specific and dynamic (Binnema, Schrijvers, Bos, Schuurmans, & Fischer, ).…”

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Are Different Coping Styles Mitigating Perceived Stress Associated With Depressive Symptoms Among Pregnant Women?

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Wang

Kwong

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Perspect Psychiatr Care

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Comparing Coping Styles in Cancer Patients and Healthy Subjects

Cited by 19 publications

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Biopsychosocial Correlates of Adjustment to Cancer during Chemotherapy: The Key Role of Health-Related Quality of Life

Biopsychosocial Correlates of Adjustment to Cancer during Chemotherapy: The Key Role of Health-Related Quality of Life

Being in safe hands: Patients’ perceptions of how cancer services may support psychological well‐being

Are Different Coping Styles Mitigating Perceived Stress Associated With Depressive Symptoms Among Pregnant Women?

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