Short report: relationships among resilience, social support, coping style and posttraumatic growth in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation caregivers

ABSTRACT

Posttraumatic growth has become a focus of concern in cancer caregivers, but a few studies have explored relationships among resilience, social support, coping style, and posttraumatic growth, especially in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation caregivers. A descriptive cross-sectional survey was conducted. Three hundred and fourteen participants completed questionnaires consisting of demographics, Posttraumatic Growth Inventory, Perceived Social Support Scale, Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale 10 and Coping Style Questionnaire. Pearson correlation analyses revealed that posttraumatic growth was positively associated with resilience, social support, and positive coping style, while, passive coping style was negatively associated with posttraumatic growth. At the same time, structural equation modeling analyses showed that resilience mediated the relationship between positive coping style and posttraumatic growth. Positive coping style and resilience played completely intermediary role between social support and posttraumatic growth.

KEYWORDS:

• Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
• posttraumatic growth
• resilience
• social support
• coping style

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.