TY - JOUR
T1 - Breast cancer
T2 - How do Israeli women cope? A cross-sectional sample
AU - Gilbar, Ora
PY - 2005/6
Y1 - 2005/6
N2 - The study examines the associations among coping strategies (emotion focused and problem focused), coping resources (internal resources, namely personal attributes, e.g., age and education; and informal social support), stage of the disease (I-IV), and the effect of these factors on psychological distress in 64 Israeli breast cancer patients 2 to 4 months after diagnosis. The main findings indicate a significant positive correlation between emotion-focused strategies and level of distress (i.e., patients with an emotion-focused strategy had a high level of psychological distress) and significant negative correlations between social support and level of distress and between amount of education and emotion-focused strategies. Moreover, the tendency to use emotion-focused strategies, along with low social support, was found to evoke greater psychological distress. Stage of disease was found to have a weak effect on psychological distress, whereas neither amount of education nor age was found to be a predictor of such distress.
AB - The study examines the associations among coping strategies (emotion focused and problem focused), coping resources (internal resources, namely personal attributes, e.g., age and education; and informal social support), stage of the disease (I-IV), and the effect of these factors on psychological distress in 64 Israeli breast cancer patients 2 to 4 months after diagnosis. The main findings indicate a significant positive correlation between emotion-focused strategies and level of distress (i.e., patients with an emotion-focused strategy had a high level of psychological distress) and significant negative correlations between social support and level of distress and between amount of education and emotion-focused strategies. Moreover, the tendency to use emotion-focused strategies, along with low social support, was found to evoke greater psychological distress. Stage of disease was found to have a weak effect on psychological distress, whereas neither amount of education nor age was found to be a predictor of such distress.
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U2 - 10.1037/1091-7527.23.2.161
DO - 10.1037/1091-7527.23.2.161
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AN - SCOPUS:22544461310
SN - 1091-7527
VL - 23
SP - 161
EP - 171
JO - Families, Systems and Health
JF - Families, Systems and Health
IS - 2
ER -