Turning the tide: Benefit finding after cancer surgery

Schulz, Ute; Mohamed, Nihal

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2003.11.019

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“…10 There is increasing evidence that most individuals not only experience negative effects but also experience certain positive effects after an encounter with a stressor. [25][26][27][28][29][30][31] This also is known as ''benefit finding,'' which can be described as the identification of benefit from adversity. 32 Furthermore, patients may experience posttraumatic growth, 31,33-37 which has been described as an experience of significant, positive change that arises from struggle with a major life crisis.…”

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Long‐term quality of life among Dutch prostate cancer survivors

Mols

Poll‐Franse

Vingerhoets

et al. 2006

Cancer

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In low income countries worldwide, rising standards of living have spurred an unprecedented rise in obesity. However, in numerous wealthy countries the trend frequently reverses with poorer and less educated women more likely to be overweight than their wealthier compatriots. One prominent explanation for this reverse gradient is that economic deprivation leads to food choices which paradoxically increase energy intake. If true, this would challenge current evolutionary accounts for the modern obesity epidemic and have serious implications for how policy makers tackle increasing obesity in the US and worldwide. In this article, we critically review the hypothesis that deprivation leads people to choose cheaper foods which in turn foster overconsumption of energy. Though the hypothesis is consistent with numerous cross‐sectional studies, available longitudinal studies from high‐, middle‐, and low‐income countries show the reverse—that when populations experience resource declines, they experience either declines in BMI or decelerations in BMI growth. Most notably, the recent recession in the US coincides with a clear deceleration in women's obesity across income groups. We conclude by briefly reviewing other plausible explanations for the reverse gradient among women in developing countries. Finally, we discuss how theoretical perspectives and comparative, historical approaches from human biology are useful tools for examining the current wealth of hypotheses about obesity in population health. Am. J. Hum. Biol., 2012. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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Long‐term quality of life among Dutch prostate cancer survivors

Mols

Poll‐Franse

Vingerhoets

et al. 2006

Cancer

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“…This can be explained by the fact that most people not only experience negative but also certain positive effects after an encounter with a stressor. [25][26][27][28][29][30][31] This is also known as 'benefit finding' which can be described as the identification of benefit from adversity. 32 Furthermore, patients may experience posttraumatic growth 31,33-37 which is described as 'the experience of significant positive change arising from the struggle with a major life crisis'.…”

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Health-related quality of life and health care utilisation among older long-term cancer survivors: A population-based study

Mols

Coebergh

Poll‐Franse

2007

European Journal of Cancer

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“…In some cases, BF related to more distress or poorer quality of life (Tomich & Helgeson, 2004). In others, no relation emerged between BF and distress or well-being (Antoni et al, 2001;Cordova, Cunningham, Carlson, & Andrykowski, 2001;Curbow et al, 1993;Fromm, Andrykowski, & Hunt, 1996;Schulz & Mohamed, 2004;Sears et al, 2003;Tomich & Helgeson, 2002;Widows, Jacobsen, Booth-Jones, & Fields, 2005).…”

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Curvilinear associations between benefit finding and psychosocial adjustment to breast cancer.

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Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

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Two previously studied cohorts of women with nonmetastatic breast cancer (Ns ϭ 230 and 136) were reexamined. Participants were assessed during the year after surgery and 5-8 years later. Associations were examined between benefit finding (BF) and several indicators of psychosocial adjustment (e.g., perceived quality of life, positive affect, negative affect, social disruption, and intrusive thoughts). Significant curvilinear relations between BF and other outcomes were observed cross-sectionally during initial assessment and at long-term follow-up in both samples. Compared with the intermediate BF group, low and high BF groups had better psychosocial adjustment. Further analyses indicated that the high BF group reported higher optimism and more use of positive reframing and religious coping than the other BF groups. Discussion highlights the need to examine nonlinear as well as linear relationships.

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Turning the tide: Benefit finding after cancer surgery

Cited by 122 publications

References 37 publications

Long‐term quality of life among Dutch prostate cancer survivors

Long‐term quality of life among Dutch prostate cancer survivors

Health-related quality of life and health care utilisation among older long-term cancer survivors: A population-based study

Curvilinear associations between benefit finding and psychosocial adjustment to breast cancer.

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