A threshold model of social support, adjustment, and distress after breast cancer treatment.

ABSTRACT: This study examined a threshold model that proposes that social support exhibits a curvilinear association with adjustment and distress, such that support in excess of a critical threshold level has decreasing incremental benefits. Women diagnosed with a first occurrence of breast cancer (N = 154) completed survey measures of perceived support (Social Provisions Scale), quality of life (Functional Living Index--Cancer), adjustment (Psychological Adjustment to Illness Scale) and psychological distress (Brief Symptom Inventory) approximately 3 weeks after surgical treatment and 8-16 months later. Consistent with a threshold model, multiple regression analyses suggested a significant curvilinear relationship between social support and distress at Time 1 and Time 2 and between social support a

SUBMITTER: Mallinckrodt B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3354567 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature