%0 Journal Article
%T Optimismo, suporte social e morbilidade psicol¨®gica em filhos adultos de doentes oncol¨®gicos
%A Amorim
%A Liliana
%A Pereira
%A M. Gra£¿a
%J Psicologia, Sa¨²de & Doen£¿as
%D 2009
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X this study aimed to evaluate the relationship between optimism, psychological morbidity and satisfaction with social support in a sample of adult offspring of cancer patients. for this purpose, a sample of 46 participants, whose parents had been diagnosed with malignant cancer participated in the study. cancer patients were receiving treatment at the oncologic service of s£¿o marcos hospital in braga. subjects filled the following questionnaires: socio demographic questionnaire (pereira & amorim, 2008); life orientation test r (scheier, carver, & bridges, 1994); stress, depression and anxiety scales - 21 (pais-ribeiro, honrado, & leal, 2004) and the social support satisfaction scale (santos, pais-ribeiro, & lopes, 2003).the results showed an association between optimism and psychological morbidity, i.e. optimistic offspring had lower levels of psychological morbidity, when compared to non-optimistic. we also found an association between marital status and psychological morbidity that adult offspring who were married presented lower rates of psychological morbidity when compared to non-married ones. results also indicate that those adults who were their parents£¿ caregivers had higher levels of stress than those who were not. the obtained data have important implications to future interventions since it can provide important guidelines to promote a better adaptation to parental cancer, particularly in terms of psychological morbidity, social support and optimism.
%K adult sons and daughters
%K cancer
%K optimism
%K psychological morbidity
%K social support.
%U http://www.scielo.gpeari.mctes.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1645-00862009000100007&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en