Resilience as a predictor of depresion in women breast cancer

Breast cancer diagnosis involves, in many cases, a traumatic event experience that increases vulnerability to suffer mental disorders such depression. However, despite the suffering, women are more strengthened and resilient after overcoming with disease. The purpose of this study was: 1) To explore...

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Main Authors: Paula Ruiz- González, Antonio Zayas, Lucía Morales-Sánchez, Paloma Gil-Olarte, Rocío Guil
Format: Article
Language:Spanish
Published: Asociación Nacional de Psicología Evolutiva y Educativa de la Infancia Adolescencia Mayores y Discapacidad 2019-08-01
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Online Access:http://www.infad.eu/RevistaINFAD/OJS/index.php/IJODAEP/article/view/1511
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spelling doaj-c3c054f083dd448191b8a8fbac23868e2020-11-25T02:01:45ZspaAsociación Nacional de Psicología Evolutiva y Educativa de la Infancia Adolescencia Mayores y DiscapacidadINFAD0214-98772603-59872019-08-0141758410.17060/ijodaep.2019.n1.v4.15111264Resilience as a predictor of depresion in women breast cancerPaula Ruiz- González0Antonio Zayas1Lucía Morales-Sánchez2Paloma Gil-Olarte3Rocío Guil4Universidad de Cádiz. Instituto de Investigación e Innovación Biomédica de Cádiz (INIBICA)Universidad de CádizUniversidad de CádizUniversidad de CádizUniversidad de CádizBreast cancer diagnosis involves, in many cases, a traumatic event experience that increases vulnerability to suffer mental disorders such depression. However, despite the suffering, women are more strengthened and resilient after overcoming with disease. The purpose of this study was: 1) To explore depression and resilience in women survivors of breast cancer survivors and women without cancer, and 2) To analyze the explanatory and predictive ability of resilience on depression, controlling for the effect of cancer diagnosis and women’s age. The sample consisted of 110 women (40.9% breast cancer survivors, 50.9% women without cancer) whose average age was 44.27 (SD= 11.79; range= 22-69). The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale –HADS-57- (Zigmond Snaith, 1983; Spanish versión by Rico, Restrepo Molina, 2006) and the Resilience Scale (Wagnild Young, 1993; Spanish versión by Novella, 2002) were administered. The analysis of the variance revealed how survivors showed, in a statistically significant way, higher levels of resilience (F[1,108]=9.82; p.01), but not in depression (F[1,108]=2.81; p.05). A stepwise multiple regression analysis indicated that resilience explained 28% of the variance in depression (R2=.28), being its predictive ability negative and statistically significant (β=-.09). This explanatory capacity was increased significantly in model 2 (R2=.31) due to the effect of having been diagnosed with cancer. These data provide empirical support concerning the need to address problems that lead to depression in breast cancer survivors. Specifically, enhacing resilience as a protective factor will cushion the impact of cancer on the development of depressive symptomatology, facilitating the adaptation and prevention of emotional disorders once the disease has been overcomehttp://www.infad.eu/RevistaINFAD/OJS/index.php/IJODAEP/article/view/1511depresiónresilienciacáncer de mamamujeres
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author Paula Ruiz- González
Antonio Zayas
Lucía Morales-Sánchez
Paloma Gil-Olarte
Rocío Guil
spellingShingle Paula Ruiz- González
Antonio Zayas
Lucía Morales-Sánchez
Paloma Gil-Olarte
Rocío Guil
Resilience as a predictor of depresion in women breast cancer
INFAD
depresión
resiliencia
cáncer de mama
mujeres
author_facet Paula Ruiz- González
Antonio Zayas
Lucía Morales-Sánchez
Paloma Gil-Olarte
Rocío Guil
author_sort Paula Ruiz- González
title Resilience as a predictor of depresion in women breast cancer
title_short Resilience as a predictor of depresion in women breast cancer
title_full Resilience as a predictor of depresion in women breast cancer
title_fullStr Resilience as a predictor of depresion in women breast cancer
title_full_unstemmed Resilience as a predictor of depresion in women breast cancer
title_sort resilience as a predictor of depresion in women breast cancer
publisher Asociación Nacional de Psicología Evolutiva y Educativa de la Infancia Adolescencia Mayores y Discapacidad
series INFAD
issn 0214-9877
2603-5987
publishDate 2019-08-01
description Breast cancer diagnosis involves, in many cases, a traumatic event experience that increases vulnerability to suffer mental disorders such depression. However, despite the suffering, women are more strengthened and resilient after overcoming with disease. The purpose of this study was: 1) To explore depression and resilience in women survivors of breast cancer survivors and women without cancer, and 2) To analyze the explanatory and predictive ability of resilience on depression, controlling for the effect of cancer diagnosis and women’s age. The sample consisted of 110 women (40.9% breast cancer survivors, 50.9% women without cancer) whose average age was 44.27 (SD= 11.79; range= 22-69). The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale –HADS-57- (Zigmond Snaith, 1983; Spanish versión by Rico, Restrepo Molina, 2006) and the Resilience Scale (Wagnild Young, 1993; Spanish versión by Novella, 2002) were administered. The analysis of the variance revealed how survivors showed, in a statistically significant way, higher levels of resilience (F[1,108]=9.82; p.01), but not in depression (F[1,108]=2.81; p.05). A stepwise multiple regression analysis indicated that resilience explained 28% of the variance in depression (R2=.28), being its predictive ability negative and statistically significant (β=-.09). This explanatory capacity was increased significantly in model 2 (R2=.31) due to the effect of having been diagnosed with cancer. These data provide empirical support concerning the need to address problems that lead to depression in breast cancer survivors. Specifically, enhacing resilience as a protective factor will cushion the impact of cancer on the development of depressive symptomatology, facilitating the adaptation and prevention of emotional disorders once the disease has been overcome
topic depresión
resiliencia
cáncer de mama
mujeres
url http://www.infad.eu/RevistaINFAD/OJS/index.php/IJODAEP/article/view/1511
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