caa a22 4500 477122728 CHVBK 20180405111641.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19970901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1026271431384 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1026271431384 Rodrigue James Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, University of Florida Health Sciences Center, P.O. Box 100165, 32610-0165, Gainesville, Florida aut An Examination of Race Differences in Patients' Psychological Adjustment to Cancer [Elektronische Daten] [James Rodrigue] Although African Americans are at increased risk of cancer morbidity and mortality, very little is known about their psychological adjustment. African American males may be at especially high psychological risk, considering their disproportionately higher cancer mortality. Subjects were 42 African American and 56 White adults similar in age, cancer stage, marital status, and socioeconomic status. Analyses revealed no significant race or gender effects on global indices of psychological adjustment, depression, or anxiety. However, African Americans were more likely than Whites (a) to use avoidant coping strategies in dealing with the exigencies of their illness, (b) to report more cancer-related disruption in family relations, and (c) to identify fewer individuals in their social support network. No significant race differences were found on a measure of health care satisfaction. These findings highlight the need to provide a more comprehensive examination of individual, family, and socioecological variables and their relationship to psychological adaptation among minorities with cancer. Plenum Publishing Corporation, 1997 health psychology nationallicence ethnicity nationallicence cancer nationallicence race nationallicence health care nationallicence Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 4/3(1997-09-01), 271-280 1068-9583 4:3<271 1997 4 10880 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026271431384 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026271431384 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Rodrigue James Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, University of Florida Health Sciences Center, P.O. Box 100165, 32610-0165, Gainesville, Florida aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 4/3(1997-09-01), 271-280 1068-9583 4:3<271 1997 4 10880 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer