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| Published: June 30, 2022
Psychological Resilience- A Comparative Case Study among Two Women Cancer Survivors
UGC, Senior Research Fellow -University of Mysore. Department of studies in Psychology Google Scholar More about the auther
Professor in Psychology, Department of studies in Psychology, University of Mysore, India Google Scholar More about the auther
DIP: 18.01.116.20221002
DOI: 10.25215/1002.116
ABSTRACT
Psychological resilience is one’s ability to adapt to stressful situations. Diagnosis and treatment of cancer have a profound effect on mental health. Still, there are people who show remarkable mental strength to overcome adversity. The purpose of the study was to understand the “resilience process” among women who are surviving cancer. For the comparative case study, two women with high resilience were screened using the Brief resilience scale and an interview. They deferred to socioeconomic background. Environmental factors, mental operations, and developmental factors have been identified as key components in building resilience against cancer. Study have compared the supportive factors for each participant as well as their challenges and learn about the interaction process. Identified resilience characteristics coded with reference to Cannon-Davidson resilience scale. In both cases, their adversities interacted with their supportive elements, resulting in resilience to cancer. Thes resilience processes of participants differed according to their interactions with adversities and protective factors. The study recommends more qualitative studies in the resilience process in cancer survival.
Keywords
Resilience, Women Cancer Survivors, Adversities, Protective Factors, Coping Strategies, Developmental Factors, Resilience Process
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2022, Archana A P & G Venkatesh Kumar
Received: January 18, 2022; Revision Received: June 28, 2022; Accepted: June 30, 2022
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.116.20221002
10.25215/1002.116
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