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Hope and Coping with Cancer by College Women
Author(s) -
Irving Lori M.,
Snyder C. R.,
Crowson, Jr. J. Jeffrey
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
journal of personality
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.082
H-Index - 144
eISSN - 1467-6494
pISSN - 0022-3506
DOI - 10.1111/1467-6494.00009
Subject(s) - coping (psychology) , psychology , positive affectivity , negative affectivity , clinical psychology , coping behavior , cancer , developmental psychology , social psychology , personality , medicine
The relations of dispositional hope to various self‐reported cancer‐related coping activities were examined in 115 college women. Dispositionally high‐ as compared to low‐hope women were more knowledgeable about cancer, and this relationship remained when the shared variances due to previous academic achievement, experience with cancer among family or friends, and positive and negative affectivity were removed. Additionally, high‐ as compared to low‐hope women reported more hope‐related coping responses in four separate imagined phases of cancer (prevention/risk, detection, temporal course, and impact), and these relationships remained when shared variances related to previous academic achievement, knowledge about cancer, experience with cancer, and negative affectivity were removed. Hope is discussed as means of maintaining a “fighting spirit” for coping with cancer.