The Relationships Between Coping Strategies and Posttraumatic Growth Among Women With Breast Cancer: A Cross-lagged Analyses

• Main Author: 錢映融
• Other Authors: 許文耀
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/95475548222006563359

碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 心理學研究所 === 102 === This study is aimed to investigate the relationships between coping strategies and Posttraumatic Growth (PTG) on three different timing of the breast cancer treatment. According to Janus-Faced Model, PTG is assumed as both a coping effort and a coping result. In order to investigate the possible relationships between coping strategies and PTG, three hypothetic models were proposed and tested by cross-lagged analyses. By purposive sampling, 262 participants were recruited from the breast center unit at a hospital in central Taiwan. Demographic and disease-related information were gathered after surgery. The Posttraumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI) and the Brief Coping Orientations to Problems Experienced scale (Brief COPE) were assessed 3, 6 and 12 months later. The Brief COPE included 3 factors: self-sufficient coping, socially-supported coping and avoidant coping. Each was assumed to associate with PTG differently. Results of the current study were as follows: 1. Younger patients or women of higher education level reported more PTG, self-sufficient coping and socially-supported coping at T1. 2. The reciprocal relation was found between self-sufficient coping and PTG within 6 months postsurgery, which indicated the positive effect of T1 self-sufficient coping on T2 PTG, as well as the reciprocal effects of T1 PTG on T2 self-sufficient coping. 3. Higher level of PTG at T2 predicted more socially-supported coping at T3. 4. Within 1 year postsurgery, there were no significant cross-lagged effects between avoidant coping and PTG, but only autoregressive correlations within constructs over time. Implications of these findings are discussed, along with potential directions for future research.