The development of Emotional Processing Rating Scale: A study of the relationships among emotional processing capabilities, perceived cancer influence, and emotional adaptation in cancer patients

• Main Authors: Chi-Yu Lin, 林紀宇
• Other Authors: Bi-Ling Shieh
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/2r4jt8

碩士 === 高雄醫學大學 === 心理學系碩士班 === 101 === Suffering from cancer is a significant stressor. Cancer patients’ life domains and emotions would be affected by the illness. It’s important to explore the relationships among patients’ emotional processing and their adaptation for further intervention and adaptation assessments. According to the research, when facing cancer diagnosis, patients not only have negative adaptations, but also positive ones. This study have two purposes, first, using emotional processing rating scale as a tool, assessing cancer patients’ emotional processing capability, trying to establish the reliability and validity of this scale ; second, explore the relationship between emotional processing capabilities of positive and negative adaptation processes. According to emotional processing theory, there are four processes (emotional awareness, emotional regulation, emotional reflection, and emotional transformation).Individual with higher emotional processing capabilities would have better emotional adaption outcome. This study is based on emotional processing theory, further discussing cancer adaptation theory and posttraumatic growth related theory, trying to explore the relationship between emotional processing capabilities and positive/negative adaptation process. This study was using purposive sampling. Researcher invited 123 cancer patients to this study. Researcher interviewed the patients for 15 minutes, tried to collect the emotional processing of cancer diagnosis. After the interview, emotional processing capability was rated by using emotional processing rating scale. Patients then filled out the Percieved Cancer Influence scale, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, Life Satisfaction Scale, and Positive/Negative Emotion Scale. Correlation analysis was conducted to establish the reliability and validity.The relationship among emotional capabilities and adaption processing was explored by using structural equation modeling. The results suggested that the scale was reliable and valid. There was significant correlation between emotional processing capabilities and adaptation processing. Emotional regulation capability was correlated with both positive and negative adaptation processes: It can improve positive emotional adaptation and change the cognition of negative influences; emotional reflection, transformation capabilities were correlated with positive adaption process. The result showed that emotional processing rating scale is an appropriate tool to assessing cancer patients’ emotional processing capabilities. By using this scale, we can predict patients’ adaptation processes and conduct a suitable clinical psychological plan in the future.