Modeling Posttraumatic Growth among Cancer Patients: The Roles of Social Support, Appraisals, and Adaptive Coping

ConclusionsThe model demonstrated the relationships between social support, untrollability appraisal, adaptive coping, and PTG. It could be concluded that uncontrollability appraisal was a required but not sufficient condition for PTG. Neither social support nor uncontrollability appraisal had direct influence on PTG. However, social support and uncontrollability might indirectly influence PTG, through adaptive coping. It implies that both internal factors (e.g., cognitive appraisal, coping) and external factors (e.g., social support) are required in order for growth to happen.
Source: Psycho-Oncology - Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Tags: PAPER Source Type: research