Open AccessFear of Cancer Recurrence and Inhibited Disclosure: Testing the Social-Cognitive Processing Model in Couples Coping With Breast Cancer
Author(s) -
Emily C Soriano,
Amy K. Otto,
Stefanie T. LoSavio,
Christine Perndorfer,
Scott D. Siegel,
Jean-Philippe Laurenceau
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
annals of behavioral medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.701
H-Index - 133
eISSN - 1532-4796
pISSN - 0883-6612
DOI - 10.1093/abm/kaaa043
Subject(s) - breast cancer , psychology , cognition , health psychology , interpersonal relationship , feeling , coping (psychology) , interpersonal communication , clinical psychology , context (archaeology) , social relation , cancer , developmental psychology , social psychology , medicine , public health , psychiatry , nursing , paleontology , biology
Withholding cancer-related concerns from one's partner (protective buffering) and feeling that one's partner is inaccessible or unresponsive to such disclosure (social constraints) are two interpersonal interaction patterns that separately have been linked to poorer adjustment to cancer.