Emotional Processing Coping Methods and Biomarkers of Stress in Young Adult Testicular Cancer Survivors | Zendy

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Emotional Processing Coping Methods and Biomarkers of Stress in Young Adult Testicular Cancer Survivors

Author(s) -

Katie Darabos,

Michael A. Hoyt

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

journal of adolescent and young adult oncology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2156-535X

pISSN - 2156-5333

DOI - 10.1089/jayao.2019.0116

Subject(s) - coping (psychology) , clinical psychology , psychology , exploratory research , rumination , constructive , young adult , developmental psychology , medicine , cognition , psychiatry , process (computing) , sociology , anthropology , computer science , operating system

Coping through emotional processing (EP) with cancer-related circumstances can take several forms, including methods thought to be constructive (e.g., planning, meaning making) and unconstructive (e.g., rumination). These forms can have differential relationships with experiences of stress. Associations of coping through constructive and unconstructive EP in expressive writing with salivary stress biomarkers were examined among young adult testicular cancer survivors. Constructive processing was significantly associated with less overall daily cortisol output and smaller salivary alpha-amylase awakening response; unconstructive processing was also associated with lower daily cortisol output. These preliminary results from this exploratory study inform future research associating emotion-regulation coping and biological stress reactivity.

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