A Study of Adversity Coping and Family Resilience of Breast Cancer Survior and Her Families

• Main Authors: Chen, Shu Ling, 陳書玲
• Other Authors: 連廷嘉
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/76004261795643862505

碩士 === 國立新竹教育大學 === 教育心理與諮商研究所 === 99 === Based on the systematic view and the concept of family resilience, this research explores how a breast cancer survivor's family that has been suffered from cancer diagnosed, treated, faced their family crisis and overcame this long-period pressure. The participators include the breast cancer survivor, her spouse, and one of her children. This study employed a narrative qualitative design that used in-depth interviews for data collection to present each family member’s stories when they facing the cancer patient. Based on the data, the researcher chose important incidents as themes, retold their life stories and analyzed the family members’ psychological processes and strategies to face, and interpreted the transition of family’s relationship, interaction, meaningful bonds, transcendence and grew from adversity.. Comparing the breast cancer survivor and her kinfolks, that not only answered, understood even more how the family managed the pressure, how their family structure, faith and communications helped then to develop a new ability to deal with contingency and challenge. Finally, the family’s happiness was improved. The conclusion of this study is pointed out: The impact of suffering from the cancer adversity psychological to the survivor herself is the biggest, the spouse felt too profound to give up and lose, children had mood of frightening and feeling guilty. Through the coping process, they formed the views unanimous of the disease through family communication, the change of the relation on intimate terms or the independence happened within family. The spouse participated in support survivor initial and recur medical treatment after, has influenced on recovery. Because children faced examination stress of entering a higher school, for being unable to is it feel anxious to share. The relationship between the children is turned from competition into cooperation; after children grow up, family's atmosphere is condensed gradually. The survivor challenges the efforts of the disease successfully should bring confidence to family. Because of encouraging to each other and valuing highly the meaningful interpersonal relationships, children comprehend the meaning of “living in a simple life” and can be optimistic in face of the predicament; they will always have faith in the hope of family’s survive forever.