Social Supports as Stress Buffers for Adult Cancer Patients
Social Supports as Stress Buffers for Adult Cancer Patients
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社会支持作为成年癌症患者的压力缓冲
作者：
T. Revenson;C. Wollman;B. Felton
&NA;虽然越来越多的研究证据表明，遇到压力的生活环境的人受到保护，免受潜在的健康和福祉下降的支持性关系，社会支持对癌症患者的压力缓冲质量的证据是模棱两可的。本研究调查了32名非住院成人癌症患者的自然发生的支持性行为和对疾病的心理适应之间的关系，并包括首次访谈后7个月收集的随访数据。结果表明，虽然支持似乎有调整在任何时间点的样本作为一个整体的影响，社会支持与较差的调整不接受化疗或放疗的患者，或那些有许多限制的身体功能。这些发现，虽然暂时的，因为样本量，点需要考虑特定的环境压力的癌症患者正在经历的评估心理社会适应的疾病，并建议谨慎假设社会支持是一个普遍的布恩。
&NA; Although a growing body of research evidence suggests that persons encountering stressful life circumstances are protected from potential declines in health and well‐being by supportive relationships, the evidence for the stress‐buffering qualities of social support for cancer patients is equivocal. This study examines the relationship between naturally occurring, supportive behaviors and psychological adjustment to the illness for 32 nonhospitalized adult cancer patients, and includes follow‐up data collected 7 months after the initial interview. Results indicated that although support appeared to have few effects on adjustment at either time point for the sample as a whole, social support was related to poorer adjustment for patients not undergoing chemotherapy or radiation treatments, or for those with many limitations on physical functioning. These findings, though tentative because of the sample size, point to the need to consider the specific contextual stresses the cancer patient is experiencing in evaluating psychosocial adjustment to the illness, and suggest caution in assuming social supports to be a universal boon.