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The role of meaning in advanced cancer-integrating the constructs of assumptive world, sense of coherence and meaning-based coping
journal contribution
posted on 2023-05-21, 14:10 authored by Carolyn LethborgCarolyn Lethborg, Aranda, S, Bloch, S, Kissane, DThis study used qualitative methods to elicit the thoughts and attitudes of patients with advanced cancer. Our two interrelated aims were to explore how participants experience and apply meaning; and to consider whether this experience can be understood within an integrated framework of assumptive world (AW), sense of coherence (SOC) and meaning-based coping (MBC). Using semi-structured interviews, 26 conversations were held overall with 10 participants. Transcriptions were analysed for themes of lived-experience and for evidence of the principal elements of AW, SOC, and MBC. Findings suggest three interrelated domains that form an adaptive pathway towards coherence and sense of self. While this pathway is essentially linear it is also responsive to the ongoing stressful nature of advanced cancer.
History
Publication title
Journal of Psychosocial OncologyVolume
24Pagination
27-42ISSN
0734-7332Department/School
School of Health SciencesPublisher
Haworth Press IncPlace of publication
10 Alice St, Binghamton, USA, Ny, 13904-1580Repository Status
- Restricted