Mediating Role of Coping in the Dispositional Optimism-Posttraumatic Growth Relation in Breast Cancer Patients

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2012-01-01

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Buyukasik-Colak, Canan
Gundogdu-Akturk, Elcin
Bozo Özen, Özlem

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The aim of the present study was to examine if coping strategies mediate dispositional optimism-posttraumatic growth relation in postoperative breast cancer patients. The data were collected from 90 patients in two hospitals. Regression analyses revealed that problem-focused coping fully mediated dispositional optimism-posttraumatic growth relation, but emotion-focused coping did not. That is, postoperative breast cancer patients who were optimistic were more likely to use problem-focused coping strategies that, in turn, led to the development of posttraumatic growth. The findings were congruent with the literature in which problem-focused coping was mostly highlighted as compared to emotion-focused coping, and in which optimism and problem-focused coping relationship was emphasized in the path of posttraumatic growth.

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Business, Management and Accounting (miscellaneous), General Psychology, Education

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/47794

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JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY

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https://doi.org/10.1080/00223980.2012.654520

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C. Buyukasik-Colak, E. Gundogdu-Akturk, and Ö. Bozo Özen, “Mediating Role of Coping in the Dispositional Optimism-Posttraumatic Growth Relation in Breast Cancer Patients,” JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY, pp. 471–483, 2012, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/47794.