Psychosocial Correlates of Benefit Finding in Breast Cancer Survivors in China
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Breast cancer is number one in incidence and sixth in mortality among all cancers of women in China. Prior work identified positive consequences following diagnosis and treatment, including benefit finding among breast cancer survivors from Western countries. This study evaluated psychosocial correlates of benefit finding in breast cancer survivors in China. A total of 148 participants completed measures of coping, perceived stress, depressive symptoms, social support, and benefit finding. Results indicated that benefit finding was positively related to active coping and negatively related to depression. Future research may evaluate whether interventions to enhance active coping will improve outcomes among Chinese breast cancer survivors.
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Active emotional management predicts the ability to adopt healthy mental representations of the illness experience (e.g., benefit finding, acceptance).
“Moreover, active emotional management predicts the ability to adopt healthy mental representations of the illness experience (e.g., benefit finding, acceptance) [46,61].”
From The Role of Emotion-Related Abilities in the Quality of Life of Breast Cancer Survivors: A Systematic Review (2022) · cites this paper as [46]
The Results section reports that active coping significantly predicted benefit finding in Chinese breast cancer survivors. But the Measures section defines active coping as planning and active coping efforts, not emotional management; the study also did not assess acceptance as an outcome. The claim therefore extends beyond what this paper found. (LLM, conf=0.87)
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Background
- Authors
- Wen, K.-Y., Ma, X. S., Fang, C., Song, Y., Tan, Y., Seals, B., & Ma, G. X.
- Affiliations
- Temple University Health System (US)
- Temple University, USA
- Nanjing Cancer Survivors Association, China
- Temple University (US)
- Venue
- Journal of Health Psychology
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2016-03-23
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- 13
- Pages
- 1731-1742
- ISSN
- 1359-1053 (ISSN-L)
- 1461-7277
- PMC
- PMC6628715
- OpenAlex
- W2306390072
- Semantic Scholar
- 290793cf62c956b405b364288feab250119a2de7
- Cited by
- 34
- References
- 68
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 1
- FWCI
- 0.72
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Journal of Health Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Cancer Institute (U54CA153513)
- Fogarty International Center (R03TW009406)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cancer survivorship and care
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Applied Psychology › Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Women's cancer prevention and management
- Keywords
- benefit finding, breast cancer survivors, psychosocial correlates, active coping, perceived stress, depressive symptoms, social support, Chinese women, cancer survivorship
- MeSH terms
- Cancer Survivors, Adaptation, Psychological, Breast Neoplasms, China, Depression, Female, Humans, Middle Aged, Quality of Life, Social Support, Stress, Psychological, Principal Component Analysis
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