Experience of grief by patients with cancer in relation to perceptions of illness: The mediating roles of identity centrality, stigma-induced discrimination, and hopefulness

Gökler-Danışman, Ilgın; Yalçınay-İnan, Merve; Yiğit, İbrahim

doi:10.1080/07347332.2017.1340389

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“…The women in this study experienced loss physically or psychologically in varied degrees, and hence they were likely to demonstrate some features of coping with grief when adjusting with their breast cancer diagnosis. While grief reaction to a cancer diagnosis is well documented (Glaser et al, 2019; Gökler-Danışman et al, 2017; Vergo et al, 2017), it has not been identified as a part of PTG.…”

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Emerging From the “Ku:” Fluctuating in Adjusting With Breast Cancer—A Post-Traumatic Growth Theory Situated Within Chinese Culture

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This purpose of the study was to construct a model (theory) to understand Chinese women’s adjustment process in living with breast cancer. A constructivist grounded theory method was adopted in this study. A total of 24 women were recruited through purposive and theoretical sampling. Semi-structured, audio-recorded interviews were undertaken in Chinese and transcribed. Initial coding, focused coding, and theoretical coding approaches were used to identify subcategories and categories, and to construct the emergent theory. The basic social process these women used to deal with the breast cancer diagnosis was identified as: Emerging from the ‘ku’: Fluctuating in adjusting with breast cancer. Four categories were revealed following analysis: confronting challenges, orienting to reality, accommodating the illness, and transforming their lives, which encapsulated the main cognitive and emotional processes in which Chinese women engaged in their adjustment to living with their illness. The core process was influenced by a variety of contextual influences, which were identified as personal factors, social-environmental factors, and some specific cultural factors which emphasized positive changes. Chinese cultural values such as “Wuwei” coping strategies, familial primacy, and Chinese self-disclosure contribute to Chinese women’s adjustment processes and post-traumatic growth experiences. Hence, there is a need to consider Chinese cultural features, in designing culturally tailored supportive programs in multi-cultural clinical settings.

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Emerging From the “Ku:” Fluctuating in Adjusting With Breast Cancer—A Post-Traumatic Growth Theory Situated Within Chinese Culture

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“…The previously validated six‐item State Hope Scale is a dispositional measure of hope. This scale has previously been used in a general oncology setting . Although conceptually similar to optimism and resilience, prior research has demonstrated that hope, optimism, and resilience are related but all uniquely contribute to positive outcomes, suggesting that they are not identical constructs .…”

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Self‐compassion and hope in the context of body image disturbance and distress in breast cancer survivors

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Objective: Greater hope and self-compassion have individually been associated with lower psychological distress in women with breast cancer. Self-compassion is also associated with lower body image distress in this population, yet it is unknown whether hope also has this association. This study aimed to investigate the extent to which hope accounts for body image distress and psychological distress in breast cancer survivors alone, and in direct comparison to self-compassion. Method:A total of 195 women were recruited from the Breast Cancer Network Australia and completed a cross-sectional online anonymous questionnaire containing self-report measures of body image (Body Image Scale), self-compassion (Self Compassion Scale-SF), hope (State Hope Scale), psychological distress (depression, anxiety, stress; DASS), and demographic/medical questions. Results: Self-compassion and hope were inversely correlated with all outcomes. Hierarchical linear regression analyses indicated that self-compassion and hope uniquely explained variance in all outcomes with different magnitudes of strength. Comparison of standardised betas indicated (a) Body image distress-selfcompassion (B std = −.355) vs hope (B std = −.161); (b) Stress-self-compassion (B std = −.562) vs hope (B std = −.287); (c) Depression-hope (B std = −.447) vs selfcompassion (B std = −.374); (d) Anxiety-hope (B std = −.406) vs self-compassion (B std = −.249). Conclusion: The unique contribution of self-compassion and hope in explaining body image distress and psychological distress suggests that combined, hopefocused components of therapy may be suitable additions to the growing array of self-compassion-based psychosocial interventions to address body image and psychological distress concerns of women with breast cancer.

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“…The main factors that seem to affect specificity are emotional distress such as depression and impaired cognitive functioning (Williams et al, 2007). Thus, the higher levels of depressive symptomatology and reduced executive functioning associated with and predicting specificity in the sample of cancer patients coincide, on one hand, with the findings of studies that report the disease induces drastic changes, interferences in life purposes (Abrams, Hazen & Penson, 2007) and multiple losses underlying depression or grief reaction (Gökler-Danışman, Yalçınay & Yiğit, 2017).…”

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“…Cancer also generates major psychosocial challenges that impact the economic, physical, psychological and social well-being of patients (Jacobsen & Andrykowski, 2015). In most cases, the disease involves the patient having to take on a new personal role with implications for their psychological adjustment, especially when the cancer experience becomes central to their identity (Gökler-Danışman, Yalçınay & Yiğit, 2017; Park, Bharadwaj & Blank, 2011). When people recall their past in association with life-threatening concerns or conflicts such as a disease process, their self-defining memories (SDMs), which are memories that help oneself and significant others to understand who one is as a person (Singer & Moffitt, 1992), tend to be representative of these events.…”

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“…Additionally, difficulty in retrieving specific memories is associated with depressive symptoms and reduced executive functions (Williams et al, 2007). Finally, aware of the psychosocial challenges faced by persons with a cancer diagnosis and considering their possible effects on identity (Gökler-Danışman, Yalçınay & Yiğit, 2017; Jacobsen & Andrykowski, 2015), we hypothesize that the cancer experience will evolve into a highly central and significant autobiographical memory in our sample of diagnosed participants.…”

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Functioning of autobiographical memory specificity and self-defining memories in people with cancer diagnosis

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ObjectivesCognitive and emotional disturbances have been associated with the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Autobiographical memory is one of the specific cognitive processes affected during this disease. The current study had two main aims: (1) to compare the functioning of autobiographical memory specificity and its related variables (executive functioning, depression and perceived stress) in a group of persons with cancer and a control group; and (2) to analyze whether the experience of cancer evolved into a self-defining memory in the sample of participants diagnosed with this disease.MethodThe study sample comprised 62 participants, 31 in the group with a cancer diagnosis and 31 in the control group. Autobiographical memory specificity, executive functions, depression, stress and self-defining memory were evaluated in the current study.ResultsDepressive symptomatology and reduced executive functioning, but not perceived stress levels, are related and are predictors of autobiographical memory specificity. In addition, the identified characteristics of the self-defining memories were associated with the cancer experience as a threat to physical integrity and an awareness of the meaning of life.ConclusionThis emerging research line is especially important in view of its possible impacts on patients’ well-being, due to the importance of psychological processes in cancer disease.

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Experience of grief by patients with cancer in relation to perceptions of illness: The mediating roles of identity centrality, stigma-induced discrimination, and hopefulness

Cited by 23 publications

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Emerging From the “Ku:” Fluctuating in Adjusting With Breast Cancer—A Post-Traumatic Growth Theory Situated Within Chinese Culture

Emerging From the “Ku:” Fluctuating in Adjusting With Breast Cancer—A Post-Traumatic Growth Theory Situated Within Chinese Culture

Self‐compassion and hope in the context of body image disturbance and distress in breast cancer survivors

Functioning of autobiographical memory specificity and self-defining memories in people with cancer diagnosis

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