The relationship of marital adjustment and posttraumatic growth in female breast cancer patients and their husbands.
Psychol Health Med
; 28(2): 401-407, 2023 02.
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ABSTRACT
Posttraumatic growth (PTG) is very important for breast cancer couples to cope with cancer. Individual marital adjustment can affect PTG, however, it is still unknown that the effect of marital adjustment on one's own and their spouses' PTG in breast cancer couples. To investigate the status of PTG and marital adjustment and explore the relation between PTG and marital adjustment in breast cancer patient-husband dyads. General data, marital adjustment and PTG scores of breast cancer patients (N = 206) and their husbands (N = 206) were collected through a general information questionnaire, the Post-traumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI) and Marital Adjustment Test (MAT). T-tests and structural equation models were applied to explore the relations between marital adjustment and PTG among breast cancer patients and their husbands. The PTG among breast cancer patients was significantly higher than among their husbands (P < 0.05); the score of patients' marital adjustment was 96.18 ± 22.08, and that of their husbands was 96.22 ± 22.27. The participants' marital adjustment had a positive predictive effect on their own PTG (P < 0.05), and patients' marital adjustment also had a positive predictive effect on their husbands' PTG (P < 0.05). Breast cancer patients experienced more PTG than their husbands; patients' PTG was promoted by their own marital adjustment, while husbands' PTG was promoted by both their own and the patient's marital adjustment. In order to improve breast cancer patients' and their husbands' PTG, it is essential to promote their marital adjustment.
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Assunto principal:
Neoplasias da Mama
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Crescimento Psicológico Pós-Traumático
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
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Female
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Humans
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En
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Psychol Health Med
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MEDICINA
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Ano de publicação:
2023
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Article
País de afiliação:
China