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Trajectories of Emotional Well-Being Among People With Advanced Cancer: Examining Gender Differences and the Roles of Social Support and Coping Styles

Reynolds, Victoria Anne
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1657650356926576

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2022, PHD, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Sociology and Criminology.
Receiving an advanced cancer diagnosis, undoubtedly, is a stressful life event. Research, however, suggests that distress among cancer patients is far from uniformly distributed. As such, this dissertation examines the extent to which (1) emotional well-being among individuals with advanced cancer varies following diagnosis until death, (2) gender differences in emotional well-being emerge over time following diagnosis until death, and (3) the association between gender and emotional well-being among persons with advanced cancer is conditioned over time by (a) types of coping styles and (b) perceptions of social support. Data come from the Aging and Supportive Care study (A&SC), and multilevel models based on a longitudinal sample of people with advanced cancer reveal the following main findings: First, compared to their male counterparts, women with advanced cancer improve in levels of emotional well-being over time. Second, women’s rate of change in emotional well-being is contingent on levels of social and coping resources to a greater extent than that of their male peers. And third, differences emerge when the data are split by short- and long-term survivors, which highlights the complexity and heterogeneity in the experiences of those living with advanced cancer. The longitudinal focus of this study lends itself to demystifying the commonplace assumption that those living with advanced cancer are constantly and uniformly distressed. Instead, findings suggest that not only is there variability in the mental health of those living with advanced cancer, but that the adjustment to this terminal disease unfolds over time.
Manacy Pai (Committee Chair)
Richard Adams (Committee Member)
Jennifer Taber (Committee Member)
Linda Francis (Committee Member)
Kristen Marcussen (Committee Member)
Kelly Cichy (Committee Member)
161 p.
Sociology
Advanced Cancer; Emotional Well-Being; Social Support; Coping Styles

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  • Reynolds, V. A. (2022). Trajectories of Emotional Well-Being Among People With Advanced Cancer: Examining Gender Differences and the Roles of Social Support and Coping Styles [Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1657650356926576

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Reynolds, Victoria. Trajectories of Emotional Well-Being Among People With Advanced Cancer: Examining Gender Differences and the Roles of Social Support and Coping Styles . 2022. Kent State University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1657650356926576.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Reynolds, Victoria. "Trajectories of Emotional Well-Being Among People With Advanced Cancer: Examining Gender Differences and the Roles of Social Support and Coping Styles ." Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University, 2022. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1657650356926576

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