| Publication Type |
thesis |
| School or College |
College of Social & Behavioral Science |
| Department |
Psychology |
| Author |
Shaevitz, Marejka |
| Title |
Illness intrusiveness, self-concept restructuring, and psychosocial adjustment in men with prostate cancer |
| Date |
2010-03-01 |
| Description |
I investigated the relationships among illness intrusiveness, self-concept restructuring, and psychological adjustment in men recently diagnosed with prostate cancer. Fifty-eight married men (40 to 84 years old) who had recently been diagnosed (within 1 year) with prostate cancer completed assessments of their hoped-for and feared possible selves, the extent to which prostate cancer made achieving/avoiding possible selves more difficult (i.e., intrusion by cancer on possible selves), and the extent to which prostate cancer increased or decreased the importance of possible selves (i.e., self-concept restructuring). These men also completed measures of psychological well-being, anxiety, and depression. More than half of the men reported that prostate cancer increased the difficulty of achieving at least one hope (60.3%) or avoiding at least one fear (56.1%). Illness intrusion on feared selves interacted with restructuring to predict adjustment. Specifically, men who reported intrusions on fears had lower well-being and higher depression only if they did not also report restructuring their feared selves. Intrusion on hopes did not interact with restructuring to predict adjustment. Results suggest that self-concept restructuring may buffer associations between illness intrusion and poor psychological adjustment among men with prostate cancer. |
| Type |
Text |
| Publisher |
University of Utah |
| Subject |
Prostate cancer |
| Dissertation Institution |
University of Utah |
| Dissertation Name |
MS |
| Language |
eng |
| Relation is Version of |
Digital reproduction of "Illness intrusiveness, self-concept restructuring, and psychosocial adjustment in men with prostate cancer" J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections RC39.5 2010 .T56 |
| Rights Management |
©Marejka Shaevitz. To comply with copyright, the file for this work may be restricted to The University of Utah campus libraries pending author permission. |
| Format Medium |
application/pdf |
| Format Extent |
60,591 bytes |
| Identifier |
us-etd2,154297 |
| Source |
Original: University of Utah J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned on Epson GT-30000 as 400 dpi to pdf using ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Professional Edition. |
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ark:/87278/s6jq1fjn |
| Setname |
ir_etd |
| ID |
192692 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6jq1fjn |
