Smith K, Ostroff J, Tan C, Lesko L
Department of Neurology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10021.
Cancer Invest. 1991;9(5):581-8. doi: 10.3109/07357909109018956.
Psychosocial adjustment in adolescent cancer survivors has been documented to be quite variable. Factors mediating adjustment need to be identified. The current study is an exploration of the impact that cancer diagnosis and treatment has on adolescent's self-perceptions and the role this has in mediating adjustment in this group. Fifty-eight adolescent survivors of hematologic malignancies were interviewed about alterations in self-perceptions related to their cancer experience and completed a cancer-specific social problem-solving task. Initial findings suggest that cancer universally alters the way adolescent survivors view themselves, but that the alteration can be both positive or negative depending on the meaning ascribed to it.
据记载，青少年癌症幸存者的心理社会适应情况差异很大。需要确定调节适应的因素。本研究旨在探讨癌症诊断和治疗对青少年自我认知的影响，以及这在调节该群体适应方面所起的作用。对58名血液系统恶性肿瘤的青少年幸存者进行了访谈，了解他们与癌症经历相关的自我认知变化，并完成了一项针对癌症的社会问题解决任务。初步研究结果表明，癌症普遍改变了青少年幸存者看待自己的方式，但这种改变可能是积极的，也可能是消极的，这取决于他们赋予它的意义。
