The relationship of dispositional optimism, daily life stress, and domestic environment to coping methods used by cancer patients

The relationship of dispositional optimism, daily life stress, and domestic environment to two types of coping methods was examined in a group of 94 cancer patients. As expected, dispositional optimism and domestic environment made significant contributions to the prediction of avoidance coping. Dis...

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Published inJournal of behavioral medicine Vol. 15; no. 2; p. 127
Main Authors Friedman, L C, Nelson, D V, Baer, P E, Lane, M, Smith, F E, Dworkin, R J
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 01.04.1992
Subjects
Adaptation, Psychological
Affect
Attitude to Health
Family
Female
Hospitals, General
Hospitals, Religious
Humans
Life Change Events
Male
Middle Aged
Neoplasms - psychology
Prognosis
Regression Analysis
Social Environment
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Summary:The relationship of dispositional optimism, daily life stress, and domestic environment to two types of coping methods was examined in a group of 94 cancer patients. As expected, dispositional optimism and domestic environment made significant contributions to the prediction of avoidance coping. Dispositional optimism contributed significantly to the prediction of active-behavioral coping. Specifically, a significant positive relationship was obtained between active-behavioral coping and optimism. A significant positive relationship also was found between avoidance coping and both daily stress and domestic environment. Avoidance coping was negatively related to dispositional optimism. In multivariate analyses, gender and disease-related variables did not make significant contributions to the prediction of coping method. Suggestions for future research were made.
ISSN:0160-7715
1573-3521
DOI:10.1007/BF00848321