Positive Growth and coping in Turkish Breast Cancer Patients.

Filazoğlu Çokluk G.

23th Health & Psychology/ European Health Psychology Conference, Piacenza, İtalya, 22 - 26 Eylül 2009, cilt.24, sa.1, ss.1-349

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Özet Bildiri
  • Cilt numarası: 24
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1080/08870440903126421
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Piacenza
  • Basıldığı Ülke: İtalya
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1-349
  • İstanbul Gelişim Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

 

The current study aims to investigate the predictive power of social support and copingstrategies in explaining positive growth among Turkish breast cancer patients. A cross-sectional sample of 188 women from three hospital centres in Turkey was invited to participatein a survey study that included the following standardized measures: The MultidimensionalAbstracts173Scale of Perceived Social Support, The Ways of Coping Inventory, Stress Related GrowthScale. Turkish women with breast cancer have relatively high level of positive growth(M¼113.24). Correlations indicated that social support, problem solving, religious andseeking social support coping were positively whereas helplessness coping inversely associatedwith the positive growth. Multiple regression showed that social support, problem solvingcoping and religious coping were significant predictors of positive growth accounting for61.9% of the variance. Coping and social supports have an independent effect on positivegrowth over above socio-demographic and medical consideration.