Representaciones del cáncer y afrontamiento en padres y madres de niños con esta enfermedad
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2018-07-20
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Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
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La presente investigación tuvo como objetivo principal valorar las diferencias en el uso de las
estrategias de afrontamiento según el componente actitudinal de las representaciones del
cáncer. Se trabajó con un grupo de 49 padres y madres de niños con cáncer de un instituto
especializado en oncología. Para evaluar las representaciones se empleó el instrumento Red
de Asociaciones (De Rosa, 2012) y para medir las estrategias de afrontamiento se utilizó el
Cuestionario Multidimensional de Estimación del Afrontamiento (COPE), creado por Carver,
Scheier, y Weintraub (1989) y adaptado por Cassaretto y Chau (2016). Se encontró que el
grupo de padres y madres que evaluaban negativamente el cáncer puntuaron en menor
medida en la estrategia búsqueda de soporte social por razones emocionales que el grupo de
padres con una valoración positiva así como aquel con una positiva y negativa de igual
forma. Además, se encontraron diferencias significativas en las estrategias de afrontamiento
búsqueda de soporte social por razones emocionales según el sexo; aceptación y supresión
de actividades competentes según el nivel de instrucción y, finalmente, supresión de
actividades competentes según los antecedentes de familiares con cáncer.
The present study set out to assess the differences in the use of coping strategies according to the attitudinal component of cancer representations within a group of 49 parents of children with cancer from a specialized oncology institute. In order to this, the Associative Network (De Rosa, 2012) was applied along with the Coping Estimation Inventory COPE which was created by Carver, Scheier, and Weintraub (1989) and adapted by Cassaretto and Chau (2016). It was found that those parents who presented a negative assessment towards cancer scored less in the strategy Seeking social support for emotional reasons than the group who had a positive assessment and the one with a positive and negative equally. Likewise, significant differences were found between the use of seeking social support for emotional reasons and the sex of the participants; acceptance and suppression of competing activities according to the education level and; finally, suppression of competing activities and family history of cancer.
The present study set out to assess the differences in the use of coping strategies according to the attitudinal component of cancer representations within a group of 49 parents of children with cancer from a specialized oncology institute. In order to this, the Associative Network (De Rosa, 2012) was applied along with the Coping Estimation Inventory COPE which was created by Carver, Scheier, and Weintraub (1989) and adapted by Cassaretto and Chau (2016). It was found that those parents who presented a negative assessment towards cancer scored less in the strategy Seeking social support for emotional reasons than the group who had a positive assessment and the one with a positive and negative equally. Likewise, significant differences were found between the use of seeking social support for emotional reasons and the sex of the participants; acceptance and suppression of competing activities according to the education level and; finally, suppression of competing activities and family history of cancer.
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Cáncer--Aspectos psicológicos, Niños--Enfermedades, Representación mental, Paternidad
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