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The role of recalibration response shift in explaining bodily pain in cancer patients undergoing invasive surgery: an empirical investigation of the Sprangers and Schwartz model
Author(s) -
Visser Mechteld R. M.,
Oort Frans J.,
Lanschot J. Jan B.,
Velden Jacobus,
Kloek Jaap J.,
Gouma Dirk J.,
Schwartz Carolyn E.,
Sprangers Mirjam A. G.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
psycho‐oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.41
H-Index - 137
eISSN - 1099-1611
pISSN - 1057-9249
DOI - 10.1002/pon.2114
Subject(s) - psychology , denial , coping (psychology) , optimism , response time , clinical psychology , social psychology , psychotherapist , computer graphics (images) , computer science
Objective This study aims to explain bodily pain using the Sprangers and Schwartz theoretical model (1999) on quality of life (QL) and response shift in its entirety. Response shift refers to the phenomenon that the meaning of a person's self‐evaluation changes over time. In this model, response shift mediates effects of changes in health status ( catalysts ), stable characteristics of the person ( antecedents ), and coping mechanisms ( mechanisms ) on QL . Methods Cancer patients (202) were assessed prior to and 3 months following surgery. Measures were for catalysts : type of operation and possibility of tumor resection; for antecedents : age, duration of pain, optimism, and rigidity; for mechanisms : post‐traumatic growth, social comparisons, social support, denial, and acceptance; and for QL : bodily pain; for response shift : the pretest‐minus‐thentest bodily pain score, further referred to as recalibration response shift. Structural equation modeling and sequential regression analyses were used. Results The final model reached close fit (RMSEA = 0.03; 90% CI = 0.000–0.071; χ 2 (18) = 21.13; p = 0.27). Significant effects were found for catalysts on mechanisms, antecedents on mechanisms, mechanisms on response shift, and response shift on bodily pain. Four extra model effects had to be permitted. Using sequential regression analysis, recalibration response shift added 4.4% to the total amount of 29.8% explained variance of bodily pain. Conclusions Many effects as hypothesized by the model were found. Recalibration response shift had a unique albeit small contribution to the explanation of bodily pain. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.