Adaptation to Cancer in the Context of Spirituality

The study is focused on the selection of coping strategies and their relationship with the meaning of religion and spirituality in cancer survivors. The individual coping strategies were measured using the Mini-Mental Adjustment to Cancer questionnaire (Mini-MAC; Watson et al. 1994), and spiritualit...

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Autores principales: Mária Dědová, Gabriel Baník
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:d4a57ab54a744ee6b59cef4dd700333b2021-11-13T00:10:58ZAdaptation to Cancer in the Context of Spirituality1339-9578https://doaj.org/article/d4a57ab54a744ee6b59cef4dd700333b2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.spirituality-studies.org/dp-volume7-issue2-fall2021/60/https://doaj.org/toc/1339-9578The study is focused on the selection of coping strategies and their relationship with the meaning of religion and spirituality in cancer survivors. The individual coping strategies were measured using the Mini-Mental Adjustment to Cancer questionnaire (Mini-MAC; Watson et al. 1994), and spirituality was measured using the Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRS-5; Huber and Huber 2012). In total 126 people participated in the study, out of whom 100 were female. The average age of the participants was 64 years (SD = 8.74). The results showed that the use of strategies such as helplessness/hopelessness and anxious preoccupation correlated negatively with public as well as private practice of spirituality. Cancer survivors with ideological, intellectual spiritual experience and with the experience of faith use adaptive coping strategies, namely fighting spirit and fatalism.Mária DědováGabriel BaníkSociety for Spirituality Studies articlecoping strategiescancer survivorstraumaspiritualityReligions. Mythology. RationalismBL1-2790ENSpirituality Studies, Vol 7, Iss 2, Pp 60-69 (2021)
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topic coping strategies
cancer survivors
trauma
spirituality
Religions. Mythology. Rationalism
BL1-2790
spellingShingle coping strategies
cancer survivors
trauma
spirituality
Religions. Mythology. Rationalism
BL1-2790
Mária Dědová
Gabriel Baník
Adaptation to Cancer in the Context of Spirituality
description The study is focused on the selection of coping strategies and their relationship with the meaning of religion and spirituality in cancer survivors. The individual coping strategies were measured using the Mini-Mental Adjustment to Cancer questionnaire (Mini-MAC; Watson et al. 1994), and spirituality was measured using the Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRS-5; Huber and Huber 2012). In total 126 people participated in the study, out of whom 100 were female. The average age of the participants was 64 years (SD = 8.74). The results showed that the use of strategies such as helplessness/hopelessness and anxious preoccupation correlated negatively with public as well as private practice of spirituality. Cancer survivors with ideological, intellectual spiritual experience and with the experience of faith use adaptive coping strategies, namely fighting spirit and fatalism.
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Gabriel Baník
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title Adaptation to Cancer in the Context of Spirituality
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