Abstract
This study on seeking guidance and support coping strategy was conducted with 120 cancer patients of Lok Nayak Jay Prakash Hospital, New Delhi. The study was based on 2×2×2 factorial design experiment with two conditions of mode of treatment (chemotherapy and surgery), two types of extroversion (extrovert and introvert), and two types of neuroticism (emotionally stable and emotionally unstable). Thus, there were eight groups of subjects with 15 subjects in each group. Coping Response Inventory and Eysenck Personality Inventory was used to collect data from all subjects. The statistical analysis of data revealed that seeking guidance and support coping of extrovert cancer patients was significantly more than that of introvert cancer patients; and seeking guidance and support coping of emotionally stable cancer patients was significantly more than that of emotionally unstable cancer patients. The interaction between the mode of treatment and extroversion, and another interaction between extroversion and neuroticism was also significant. Key words: Personality, coping, guidance and support, extroversion, neuroticism, cancer patients.
Highlights
The diagnosis of cancer can have a shocking impact upon individuals and their families
It can be said that the mode of treatment of cancer patients did not play any significant role for seeking guidance and support coping strategy differences
The second hypothesis regarding the extroversion of cancer patients was rejected at 0.01 level
Summary
The diagnosis of cancer can have a shocking impact upon individuals and their families. Cancer is traumatic emotionally because of deformity and functional impairment resulting from both the cancer and its treatment. Many concerns exist from a psychological perspective for the cancer patient, including the reaction to the cancer itself, the threat to one's mortality, body image issues, fear of treatment (surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy) and potential disfigurement, family, social and vocational issues, and normal psychological responses such as anxiety and depression (Lackey et al, 2001; Kearney and Richardson, 2006; Norton and Manne, 2007). Coping involves cognitive and behavioural efforts to manage problems caused by stressful situations. Coping includes adaptive efforts to manage the external or environmental aspects of a stressor, and avoidant behaviours to minimize exposure to the stressful situation (Lazarus, 1993)
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