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Emotive and cognitive processes in cancer patients: linguistic profiles of post-traumatic growth
- Source :
- European journal of cancer care. 27(1)
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- Starting from the challenge offered by the authors of the post-traumatic growth (PTG) construct (Tedeschi & Calhoun, 2004), this paper aims to explore the existence of different linguistic profiles of cognitive and emotional processes in PTG narratives. The autobiographical narratives of 40 cancer patients were analysed for both PTG and linguistic indicators of emotions and cognitive processes. PTG was operationalised as the presence of redemption sequences (McAdams, 2001). The emotional and cognitive linguistic indicators were analysed by the LIWC program (Pennebaker & Francis, 1999). All the narratives included PTG (M = 3.55, SD = 1.91). Three clusters of linguistic profiles were retained (60%–79% of variance explained): “disengagement”, “assimilative” and “accommodative”. These clusters differed significantly by PTG (F = 9.70, p
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Cognitive processe
050103 clinical psychology
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Emotions
050109 social psychology
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
Promotion (rank)
Cognition
Neoplasms
Adaptation, Psychological
cancer
Medicine
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Narrative
Linguistic indicator
Disengagement theory
M-PSI/05 - PSICOLOGIA SOCIALE
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Aged
Emotion
Narration
Psycholinguistics
business.industry
05 social sciences
Autobiographical narrative
Middle Aged
Explained variation
Linguistics
redemption
Oncology
Emotive
Post-traumatic growth
Quality of Life
Female
Construct (philosophy)
business
Psychological Theory
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 13652354
- Volume :
- 27
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- European journal of cancer care
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....cd4dd4ef539cf1d9c7ecb9fa69676428