Suppression of negative affect in cancer patients. Trauma and defensiveness of self-esteem as predictors of depression and anxiety

• Authors: Aleksandra Fila-Jankowska , Agata Szawińska
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The results of the work show that the relatively small differences in declared, negative emotional states (such as depression or anxiety) between people suffering and not suffering from cancer can be explained by the suppression of negative affect in the former. It was assumed that the suppression is related to a compensation of an automatic, affective self-assessment - i.e. implicit self-esteem, lower in cancer patients. The results confirmed that the connection of cancer and depression (similarly cancer and anxiety) became significantly stronger while the self-esteem defensiveness and past stress are statistically controlled.

Keywords

EN

cancer; anxiety; depression; stressful events; self-esteem defensiveness

• Publisher: Committee for Psychological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Polish Psychological Bulletin
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 47
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 318-326

Dates

published

2016-09-01

online

2016-10-20

Contributors

author

Aleksandra Fila-Jankowska

• University of Social Sciences and Humanities at Sopot, 81-345 Sopot, Polna 16/20,

author

Agata Szawińska

• University of Social Sciences and Humanities at Sopot,

Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/ppb-2016-0038