The role of psychological flexibility in the meaning-reconstruction process in cancer: The intensive longitudinal study protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Meaning-making is an important element of adapting to disease. However, this process is still poorly understood and the theoretical model has not been comprehensively verified yet, particularly in terms of complexity, dynamics, and intraindividual variability. The aim of this study is a deeper understanding of the meaning-reconstruction process in cancer and empirical verification of the integrative meaning-making model of coping extended by the psychological flexibility model. We postulate that psychological flexibility can foster the meaning-making in cancer by building more flexible and workable meaning-making explanations of disease.

Design

A daily-diary study conducted for 14 days in patients following the first autologous or allogeneic hematopoietic cell tra

SUBMITTER: Kroemeke A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9560549 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature