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- Title
Personality and Spirituality as Predictors of Mental Health and Salivary Alpha-Amylase Activity in Breast Cancer Survivors.
- Authors
Hulett, Jennifer M.; Johnstone, Brick; Millspaugh, Rami J.; Millspaugh, Joshua J.
- Abstract
OBJECTIVES: To determine the relative predictive validity of personality and spirituality for mental health and salivary alpha-amylase (sAA) in breast cancer (BC) survivors. SAMPLE & SETTING: 23 BC survivors participated in a single-group, cross-sectional study. METHODS & VARIABLES: Predictor variables included personality and spiritual variables. Outcome variables included subjective physical and mental health outcomes and sAA, a neuroimmune biomarker. RESULTS: Hierarchical regressions indicated that (a) conscientiousness and forgiveness independently predict 38% and 11% of variance in mental health scores, respectively; and (b) conscientiousness and forgiveness independently predict 15% and 24% of the variance in sAA, respectively. Consistent with psychoneuroimmunology theory, personality and spiritual variables independently influence subjective mental health and neuroimmune activity in BC survivors. IMPLICATIONS FOR NURSING: Nurses should be aware of BC survivors’ personality characteristics and spiritual dispositions so that distinct interventions can be offered to promote mental health and reduce stress-related neuroimmune inflammation.
- Subjects
SALIVA analysis; CANCER patient psychology; PERSONALITY; PILOT projects; BIOMARKERS; SPIRITUALITY; CROSS-sectional method; MENTAL health; AMYLASES; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; DATA analysis software; BREAST tumors
- Publication
Oncology Nursing Forum, 2022, Vol 49, Issue 4, p307
- ISSN
0190-535X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1188/22.ONF.307-314