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    The relationship between adult attachment and coping with brain tumour: The mediating role of social support

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    Date
    2020-01-10
    Author
    Trejnowska, Anna
    Goodall, Karen
    Rush, Robert
    Ellison, Marion
    McVittie, Chris
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    Trejnowska, A., Goodall, K., Rush, R., Ellison, M. & McVittie, C. (2020) The relationship between adult attachment and coping with brain tumour: The mediating role of social support. Psycho-Oncology, 29(4), 729-733.
    Abstract
    Objective A primary brain tumour diagnosis is known to elicit higher distress than other forms of cancer and is related to high depressive symptomatology. Using a cross-sectional design, the present study explored how individuals cope with this diagnosis using an attachment theory framework. Attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance were hypothesised to be positively related to helplessness/hopelessness, anxious preoccupation and cognitive avoidance, and negatively related to fighting spirit and fatalism coping. We proposed perceived social support to play a mediating role in those associations.
     
    Methods Four hundred and eighty participants diagnosed with primary brain tumours completed the Mini-Mental Adjustment to Cancer Scale (Mini-Mac), the Experiences in Close Relationships Questionnaire–Revised (ECR-R) and the modified Medical Outcomes Study–Social Support Scale (mMOS-SSS) online.
     
    Results Lower perceived social support mediated the positive associations between both higher attachment anxiety and avoidance and higher helpless/hopeless coping. Attachment anxiety was also positively associated with anxious preoccupation. This relationship was not mediated by perceived social support. Cognitive avoidance was unrelated to both attachment dimensions and social support.
     
    Conclusions The findings highlight that the differences in coping repertoire are associated with social relatedness factors, specifically attachment security and its relationship to perceived social support. Implications of the findings are discussed.
     
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    https://eresearch.qmu.ac.uk/handle/20.500.12289/10364
    Official URL
    https://doi.org/10.1002/pon.5325
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