title: The relationship of dispositional optimism, daily life stress, and domestic environment to coping methods used by cancer patients.
abstract: The relationship of dispositional optimism, daily life stress, and domestic environment to two types of coping methods was examined in a group of 94 cancer patients. As expected, dispositional optimism and domestic environment made significant contributions to the prediction of avoidance coping. Dispositional optimism contributed significantly to the prediction of active-behavioral coping. Specifically, a significant positive relationship was obtained between active-behavioral coping and optimism. A significant positive relationship also was found between avoidance coping and both daily stress and domestic environment. Avoidance coping was negatively related to dispositional optimism. In multivariate analyses, gender and disease-related variables did not make significant contributions to the prediction of coping method. Suggestions for future research were made.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030.
authors.forename: L C
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Friedman
authors.forename: D V
authors.initials: DV
authors.lastname: Nelson
authors.forename: P E
authors.initials: PE
authors.lastname: Baer
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lane
authors.forename: F E
authors.initials: FE
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Dworkin
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000339:Affect; D001294:Attitude to Health; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006769:Hospitals, General; D016519:Hospitals, Religious; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology*; D011379:Prognosis; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012931:Social Environment