Saint Paul University, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Psychol Health. 2011 Mar;26(3):287-305. doi: 10.1080/08870440903411013. Epub 2010 Mar 19.
This study investigates the role of religious salience, God image and religious coping in relation to perceived growth following a diagnosis of breast cancer. Eighty-seven breast cancer patients were followed from pre-diagnosis up to 24 months post-surgery. The findings of this study provided limited support for the role of positive aspects of spirituality in relation to perceived growth. Religious involvement at pre-diagnosis was predictive of less growth at 24 months post-surgery while a positive image of God had no association with growth. While some forms of positive religious coping demonstrated positive associations, others evidenced no relationship or negative relationships with growth. Negative aspects of spirituality were more consistently related to growth with the nature of the association again depending on the type of negative spirituality being assessed. For example, passive deferral coping was related to less growth while spiritual discontent coping was related to greater growth across time. Such findings underscore the need to attend to negative aspects of spirituality from early on in the process of cancer adjustment as such expressions may have implications for women's ability to develop and maintain a positive perspective in their coping over the long-term.
本研究调查了宗教突显、上帝形象和宗教应对在乳腺癌诊断后感知成长方面的作用。87 名乳腺癌患者在术前至术后 24 个月期间接受了随访。本研究的结果仅为支持与感知成长相关的积极方面的精神性的作用提供了有限的证据。术前的宗教参与可预测术后 24 个月的成长较少，而对上帝的积极形象与成长没有关联。虽然某些形式的积极宗教应对表现出积极的关联，但其他形式的应对与成长没有关系或呈现消极关系。精神性的消极方面与成长更密切相关，而且关联的性质再次取决于所评估的消极精神性的类型。例如，消极回避应对与成长较少相关，而精神不满应对与随着时间的推移成长较多相关。这些发现强调了需要从癌症调整过程的早期开始关注精神性的消极方面，因为这些表现可能对女性在长期应对中发展和保持积极观点的能力产生影响。
