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- Title
The protective effect of a satisfying romantic relationship on women's body image after breast cancer: a longitudinal study.
- Authors
Cairo Notari, Sarah; Notari, Luca; Favez, Nicolas; Delaloye, Jean ‐ François; Ghisletta, Paolo
- Abstract
<bold>Objective: </bold>To examine the protective role of relationship satisfaction on body image in women with breast cancer throughout the first year post-surgery.<bold>Methods: </bold>Seventy-four Swiss patients engaged in a relationship filled out a questionnaire assessing body image disturbance 2 weeks, 3 months, and 1 year after surgery. A univariate latent change score model was used to analyze the evolution of body image disturbance and the contribution of relationship satisfaction to body image disturbance.<bold>Results: </bold>Women who were satisfied with their relationship reported less body image disturbance than did dissatisfied women at 2 weeks post-surgery. Being married was also associated with less body image disturbance at that time. The protective effect of these relational variables was still observable 1 year later. Changes in body image disturbance over time were explained by the negative impacts of mastectomy and chemotherapy.<bold>Conclusions: </bold>How women perceive the impact of breast cancer treatment on their body may be partly determined by the quality of the relational context in which they live.
- Subjects
SWITZERLAND; BREAST cancer patients; BODY image in women; MARITAL satisfaction; MASTECTOMY complications; CANCER in women; MARITAL status; PSYCHOLOGY; BODY image; BREAST tumors; INTERPERSONAL relations; LONGITUDINAL method; PROBABILITY theory; SATISFACTION
- Publication
Psycho-Oncology, 2017, Vol 26, Issue 6, p836
- ISSN
1057-9249
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1002/pon.4238