Korean Journal of Social Welfare Studies (사회복지연구)
- Volume 42 Issue 2
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- Pages.419-441
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- 2011
Posttraumatic growth in patients with cancer
암환자의 외상후성장에 영향을 미치는 요인에 관한 연구
- Han, In Young (Graduate School of Social Welfare, Ewha Womans University) ;
- Lee, In Jeong (Department of Social Work, National Cancer Center)
- Received : 2011.04.28
- Accepted : 2011.06.16
- Published : 2011.06.30
Abstract
Cancer is a disease that threatens the individual's life. This is why the cancer patient goes through psychosocial pain in the form of a trauma. Thus, the previous researches have only focused on the cancer patient's psychosocial distress. However, the cancer patients who have grown more mature and brought upon positive changes in their lives have been clinically observed. Because of this, researches regarding the ways that social welfare can intervene in order to examine the cancer patients' positive changes and growth which breaks away from the previous pathological point of view of the cancer patients are being actively conducted in other countries. But it turns out that there aren't enough basic researches related to this topic and thereby the need to lay out the basis for social welfare intervention. Therefore, this research examines positive changes and growth that may result from the traumatic experience of having a cancer. The predictable factors regarding this are analyzed in order to provide the basic information that may promote clinical intervention for cancer patient's posttraumatic growth. For this, the information from 206 cancer patients who have agreed to participate in the research have been used to predict and evaluate the predictable factors for the cancer patient's post-traumatic growth and hierarchy multiple regression haven been analyzed. As the result of the research, main factor of the post-traumatic growth is found to be social support and coping. The positive reconstruction of coping has been discovered to be the strongest predictable factor for cancer patient's posttraumatic growth. Based on this result, the advice for further research and implications for social welfare have been given.
본 연구는 암환자의 심리사회적 고통에만 초점을 두는 기존의 병리적 관점에서 벗어나 생존을 위협하는 암이라는 외상적 경험 속에서 얻게 되는 긍정적 변화와 성장을 검토하고 이에 대한 예측 요인을 분석하여 그 결과를 바탕으로 암환자의 외상후성장을 도모할 수 있는 임상적 개입에 대한 기초 자료를 제공하는 것을 목적으로 하였다. 이를 위해 연구 참여에 동의한 암환자 206명을 연구대상으로 설문조사를 실시하였으며 암환자의 외상후성장에 대한 예측요인을 검토하기 위해 인구사회학적 변인, 질병관련 변인, 대처, 사회적 지지를 독립변인으로 하여 연구모형을 구성하고 위계적 회귀분석을 통해 자료를 분석하였다. 조사 결과 암환자들의 외상후성장에 대한 주 영향요인으로 대처, 사회적 지지가 도출되었다. 이중 대처의 하위요인인 긍정적 재구조화가 암환자의 외상후성장에 대한 가장 강력한 예측요인으로 밝혀졌으며 이러한 결과를 토대로 사회복지적 함의와 후속연구에 대한 제언을 제시하였다.
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