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A Grateful Disposition Promotes the Well-Being of Women with Breast Cancer Through Adaptive Coping

INTRODUCTION: Gratitude has been studied as a disposition that reflects the extent to which people appreciate what they have in life knowing that it has not been given to them forever. Being grateful has been found to promote quality of life, which is why it may be used to cope in difficult times in...

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Autores principales: Tomczyk, Joanna, Krejtz, Izabela, Kornacka, Monika, Nezlek, John B
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8215929/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34163256
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/IJWH.S294216
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author Tomczyk, Joanna
Krejtz, Izabela
Kornacka, Monika
Nezlek, John B
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Kornacka, Monika
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description INTRODUCTION: Gratitude has been studied as a disposition that reflects the extent to which people appreciate what they have in life knowing that it has not been given to them forever. Being grateful has been found to promote quality of life, which is why it may be used to cope in difficult times including during breast cancer diagnosis and treatment. METHODS: Dispositional gratitude was examined in relation to the well-being of women with breast cancer. In the current study, 119 women with breast cancer completed questionnaires that measured gratitude, well-being, coping styles, depression, and anxiety. RESULTS: Correlational analyses found that dispositional gratitude was positively correlated with well-being (p < 0.001) and was negatively correlated with depression (p < 0.05) and anxiety (p < 0.05). Gratitude was also positively correlated with the use of task-oriented (p < 0.05) and socially oriented coping (p < 0.01) techniques. Analyses of mediation using PROCESS found that the use of task-oriented and socially oriented coping mediated relationships between gratitude and well-being, between gratitude and anxiety, and between gratitude and depression. CONCLUSION: In terms of application, the present results suggest that among women who have breast cancer, increasing dispositional gratitude may increase adaptive coping, which in turn will increase their well-being.
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spelling pubmed-82159292021-06-22 A Grateful Disposition Promotes the Well-Being of Women with Breast Cancer Through Adaptive Coping Tomczyk, Joanna Krejtz, Izabela Kornacka, Monika Nezlek, John B Int J Womens Health Original Research INTRODUCTION: Gratitude has been studied as a disposition that reflects the extent to which people appreciate what they have in life knowing that it has not been given to them forever. Being grateful has been found to promote quality of life, which is why it may be used to cope in difficult times including during breast cancer diagnosis and treatment. METHODS: Dispositional gratitude was examined in relation to the well-being of women with breast cancer. In the current study, 119 women with breast cancer completed questionnaires that measured gratitude, well-being, coping styles, depression, and anxiety. RESULTS: Correlational analyses found that dispositional gratitude was positively correlated with well-being (p < 0.001) and was negatively correlated with depression (p < 0.05) and anxiety (p < 0.05). Gratitude was also positively correlated with the use of task-oriented (p < 0.05) and socially oriented coping (p < 0.01) techniques. Analyses of mediation using PROCESS found that the use of task-oriented and socially oriented coping mediated relationships between gratitude and well-being, between gratitude and anxiety, and between gratitude and depression. CONCLUSION: In terms of application, the present results suggest that among women who have breast cancer, increasing dispositional gratitude may increase adaptive coping, which in turn will increase their well-being. Dove 2021-06-16 /pmc/articles/PMC8215929/ /pubmed/34163256 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/IJWH.S294216 Text en © 2021 Tomczyk et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/This work is published and licensed by Dove Medical Press Limited. The full terms of this license are available at https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php and incorporate the Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) ). By accessing the work you hereby accept the Terms. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed. For permission for commercial use of this work, please see paragraphs 4.2 and 5 of our Terms (https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php).
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title_fullStr A Grateful Disposition Promotes the Well-Being of Women with Breast Cancer Through Adaptive Coping
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title_short A Grateful Disposition Promotes the Well-Being of Women with Breast Cancer Through Adaptive Coping
title_sort grateful disposition promotes the well-being of women with breast cancer through adaptive coping
topic Original Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8215929/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34163256
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/IJWH.S294216
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