Coping with Breast Cancer: The Influence of Partners' Benefit Finding on the Partner, the Patient, and Their Relationship

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  • March 19, 2019
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  • Cohen, Matthew
    • Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
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  • As couples attempt to cope together with a female partner's breast cancer diagnosis, researchers have begun investigating the extent to which benefit finding, defined as one's ability to find the positive effects that result from a traumatic event, is an adaptive response. Whereas researchers have investigated benefit finding in patients with breast cancer, the literature on benefit finding in caregiving partners of breast cancer patients has been largely unexplored. This paper presents findings from a study involving 142 couples enrolled in a couple-based intervention for women with early-stage breast cancer. The findings indicate that while male benefit finding is positively associated with male relationship satisfaction, it is not related to any patient related variables under investigation. These results indicate that this construct is not consistently adaptive across studies. It will be worthwhile to further investigate the ways in which males provide support during challenging times in future studies.
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  • Kirby, Jennifer
  • Baucom, Donald
  • Abramowitz, Jonathan
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  • Master of Arts
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  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
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  • 2015
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