Moura Rita, Camilo Cristina, Luís Sílvia
CIS-IUL, Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, Centro de Administração e de Políticas Públicas, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
Front Psychol. 2021 Sep 24;12:661496. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.661496. eCollection 2021.
Women diagnosed with breast cancer often experience unpleasant emotions, resulting in higher levels of emotional burden and decreased levels of wellbeing and quality of life. The present correlational and cross-sectional study aims to compare the implementation of two regulatory levels, intrapersonal and interpersonal (as social sharing of emotions), and two types of strategies, antecedent-focused and response-focused, and explore their impact on breast cancer patients' perception of quality of life. Sixty-eight women previously diagnosed with the disease participated in this study, with a mean age of 63years old (=11.58). Data were collected through a self-report questionnaire to assess emotional experience, intrapersonal regulation, social sharing of emotions, and breast cancer-related wellbeing and quality of life. Data yielded that most of the participants regulated their negative emotions within social interactions and made more use of antecedent-focused strategies to cognitively reformulate the emotional episode. Social and family wellbeing were positively associated with antecedent-focused strategies, as well as intrapersonal and interpersonal regulatory levels. Moreover, the occurrence of sharing episodes and social interactions played an important and beneficial role on patients' perceived quality of life. These findings reinforce the importance of promoting an adaptive intrapersonal regulation among breast cancer patients. Results also suggest that social sharing of emotions is an efficient process to help them to better cope with the psychological and emotional burden of the disease, thus positively influencing the way they perceive their social and family wellbeing, as well as their quality of life.
被诊断患有乳腺癌的女性常常会经历不愉快的情绪，导致情绪负担加重，幸福感和生活质量下降。本相关性横断面研究旨在比较两种调节水平（个体内部和人际间，作为情绪的社会分享）和两种策略类型（前因聚焦和反应聚焦）的实施情况，并探讨它们对乳腺癌患者生活质量认知的影响。68名先前被诊断患有该病的女性参与了本研究，平均年龄为63岁（标准差=11.58）。通过自我报告问卷收集数据，以评估情绪体验、个体内部调节、情绪的社会分享以及与乳腺癌相关的幸福感和生活质量。数据显示，大多数参与者在社交互动中调节自己的负面情绪，并且更多地使用前因聚焦策略来从认知上重新构建情绪事件。社会和家庭幸福感与前因聚焦策略以及个体内部和人际间调节水平呈正相关。此外，分享事件和社交互动的发生对患者感知的生活质量起到了重要且有益的作用。这些发现强化了在乳腺癌患者中促进适应性个体内部调节的重要性。结果还表明，情绪的社会分享是一个有效的过程，有助于她们更好地应对疾病带来的心理和情绪负担，从而对她们感知社会和家庭幸福感以及生活质量的方式产生积极影响。
