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- Title
Types of self-regulation styles in cancer patients with high and low levels of chronic stres.
- Authors
Kuznetsova, A.; Zinchenko, Y.; Titova, M.; Shilko, R.; Kovyazina, M.; Rasskazova, E.
- Abstract
Introduction: The cancer patients' ability to cope with stress depends on various psychological factors, including selfregulation skills. Constructive self-regulation helps patients to implement treatment procedures in work and life schedule and prevent stress increase. The effective stress-management for working cancer patients should take into account their typical styles of self-regulation as the stable combination of goal-setting, mental situation modeling, planning of execution actions, results evaluation. Objectives: The research is focused on the revealing the differences of stress level in patients with different self-regulation styles. Two groups of patients with different self-regulation styles were selected before the start of radiotherapy treatment (N=33). Methods: Chronic stress scale (Leonova, 2006); self-regulation profile questionnaire (Morosanova, 2004); structured interview aimed at information on self-regulation efficiency. Results: Patients with two styles manifest significantly different levels of chronic stress (t=8,28, p<0,001). High stress revealed in patients with the "accentuated" self-regulation style: highly developed goal-setting and explicit planning of actions' execution, combined with lack of situation modeling and results' evaluation. Low stress is specific for patients with "balanced" self-regulation style. Conclusions: The "accentuated" self-regulation style is typical mostly for high anxiety people (Morosanova, 2006). Thus, the results fit well with the obtained data of anxiety prevalence in the pattern of cancer patients' stress (Holland, Lewis, 2000; Parle, Jones, Maguine, 1996). The developed ability to maintain self-regulation with equally developed components could be viewed as the possible way of anxiety management and stress prevention. The research is supported by Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project 18-00-01228.
- Subjects
CANCER patients; STRESS management; PSYCHOLOGICAL stress; PSYCHOLOGICAL factors; WORKING hours
- Publication
European Psychiatry, 2020, Vol 63, pS203
- ISSN
0924-9338
- Publication type
Article