Self-blame attributions in women with newly diagnosed breast cancer: a prospective study of psychological adjustment.

نویسندگان

  • J G Glinder
  • B E Compas
چکیده

Associations between self-blame and anxiety and depression symptoms in a sample of 76 women with breast cancer were investigated. At diagnosis, behavioral self-blame was associated with increased distress; at 3 months postdiagnosis, characterological self-blame was positively associated with affective symptoms and behavioral self-blame approached significance (p = .07); and at 6 months, behavioral self-blame was related to increased distress. Prospective analyses revealed that characterological self-blame at diagnosis approached significance in predicting distress at 3 months (p = .055) and was significant in predicting distress at 6 months and at 1 year after diagnosis. These data indicate that behavioral self-blame is a correlate of concurrent affective symptoms, whereas characterological self-blame predicts increased distress over time. Implications for social-cognitive processes in adaptation to breast cancer are discussed.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association

دوره 18 5  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1999