Department of Sociology, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712, USA.
J Health Soc Behav. 2010 Sep;51(3):260-73. doi: 10.1177/0022146510378239.
Using two waves of the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States, I compare changes in personal growth over a 10 year period among cancer survivors and individuals without cancer. Moreover, I examine joint effects of age and cohort on personal growth after a cancer diagnosis. The theoretical framework of this study integrates impairment, resilience, and thriving perspectives. Findings reveal that, although personal growth declines with age for all individuals regardless of cohort and cancer status, cancer slows the decline in personal growth with age in 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s birth cohorts, yet accelerates the age-related decline in the 1920s cohort. I argue that a sociological perspective can enhance our understanding of the interplay of developmental and sociocultural influences on psychological adjustment to cancer. Seemingly idiosyncratic psychological reactions to cancer partly reflect macrolevel processes represented by cohort differences.
利用美国全国中年发展研究的两波数据，我比较了癌症幸存者和无癌症个体在 10 年期间个人成长的变化。此外，我还研究了年龄和队列对癌症诊断后个人成长的共同影响。本研究的理论框架整合了损伤、恢复力和蓬勃发展的观点。研究结果表明，尽管所有个体的个人成长都随着年龄的增长而下降，无论其队列和癌症状况如何，但癌症会减缓 20 世纪 40 年代、50 年代和 60 年代出生队列中个人成长随年龄的下降速度，而加速 20 世纪 20 年代出生队列中与年龄相关的下降速度。我认为，社会学观点可以增强我们对发展和社会文化因素对癌症心理适应相互作用的理解。对癌症的看似特殊的心理反应在一定程度上反映了以队列差异为代表的宏观层面过程。
