Subjective Well-Being in Older Women with Breast Cancer in Remission

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sofia von Humboldt
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Older Women ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being

What predicts adjustment to aging among older women in breast cancer remission? The influence of subjective well-being, sense of coherence, and socio-demographic, lifestyle and health-related factors

2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (S1) ◽  
pp. s288-s288
Author(s):  
S. von Humboldt ◽  
I. Leal ◽  
F. Carneiro
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Older Women ◽  
Sense Of Coherence ◽  
Structural Model ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Cancer Remission ◽  
Breast Cancer Remission ◽  
Adjustment To Aging

ObjectivesTo build a structural model to explore the predictors of adjustment to aging (AtA) reported by older women in breast cancer remission.MethodsOlder women in breast cancer remission (n = 214) aged between 75 and 94 years participated in this study. A questionnaire to determine socio-demographic (age, income, professional and marital status, education, household, living setting and self-reported spirituality), lifestyle and health-related characteristics (physical activity, leisure, perceived health, recent disease and medication), and measures to assess AtA, sense of coherence and subjective well-being, were employed. Structural equation modeling was used to explore a structural model of the self-reported AtA, encompassing all variables.ResultsPreliminary results indicated that self-reported spirituality (β = .397; P < .001), leisure (β = .383; P < .001), physical activity (β = .267; P < .001), perceived health (β = .211; P < .001), marital status (β = .173; P < .001), professional status (β = .156; P = .009), sense of coherence (β = .138; P < .001), and living setting (β = .129; P = .007), predicted AtA. The variables accounted for 79.2% of the variability of AtA.ConclusionSelf-reported spirituality and leisure were the strongest predictors of AtA. Our preliminary findings suggest that health care interventions with older women in breast cancer remission still living in the community may benefit from clearly including predictors of AtA, as these are essential for promoting older women’ s aging well.Disclosure of interestThe authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

scholarly journals SUBJECTIVE WELL-BEING IN ELDERLY WOMEN WITH AND WITHOUT BREAST CANCER IN REMISSION

2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (01) ◽  
pp. 192-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis Carneiro ◽  
Sofia Humboldt ◽  
Isabel Leal
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Elderly Women ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being

scholarly journals Assessing and decomposing gender differences in evaluative and emotional well-being among older adults in the developing world

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clémence Kieny ◽  
Gabriela Flores ◽  
Jürgen Maurer
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Gender Differences ◽  
Older Women ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
World Health ◽  
Adult Health ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Life Circumstances

Abstract Using data from the World Health Organization’s Study on Global AGEing and Adult Health (SAGE), we evaluate the relationship between gender and several measures of subjective well-being among older adults in developing countries. Furthermore, we contrast the partial associations of gender with these well-being measures when controlling only for age (age-adjusted analyses) with the corresponding partial associations when including individual characteristics and life circumstances as controls (multivariable-adjusted analyses). While age-adjusted analyses reveal that older women have lower levels of evaluative well-being than older men, multivariable-adjusted analyses show that - given similar life circumstances - they have equal or slightly higher evaluative well-being. This suggests that the gender gap in evaluative well-being may be explained by less favorable life circumstances of older women. Age-adjusted results also show that older women tend to have lower levels of emotional well-being. However, we find no reversal, but merely an attenuation of these gender differences in emotional well-being when controlling for additional individual characteristics and life circumstances. Finally, we perform Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions to disaggregate the gender gaps in well-being into explained parts - attributable to gender differences in individual characteristics and life circumstances - and unexplained parts - related to gender differences in the association between life circumstances and subjective well-being. These results further corroborate our findings that women tend to be disadvantaged in terms of both evaluative and emotional well-being, and that this disadvantage is mostly driven by observable factors related to the explained part of the decomposition, such as gender differences in socio-economic status and health.

A Study on the Relationships Among Character Strengths, Perceived Social Support and Subjective Well-Being of Breast Cancer Patients

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 1967-1972
Author(s):  
Feiyan Ruan ◽  
Xiaotong Ding ◽  
Huiping Li ◽  
Yixuan Wang ◽  
Kemin Ye ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Social Support ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Perceived Social Support ◽  
Character Strengths ◽  
Well Being ◽  
General Information ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Breast Cancer Patients ◽  
Key Factor

Purpose: Subjective well-being is a key factor affecting the overall quality of life of cancer patients. The aim of this study was to provide information on improving the level of happiness to breast cancer patients by exploring the relationships among character strengths, perceived social support and subjective well-being. Methods: A total of 181 breast cancer patients were enrolled. Participants completed a general information questionnaire, the values in action inventory of strengths questionnaire, the perceived social support scale questionnaire, and the index of well-being questionnaire. Results: The subjective well-being and perceived social support of breast cancer patients were positively correlated with their character strengths (r = 0.167-0.630, all P < 0.05). Perceived social support played a mediating role between the four traits of character strength and subjective well-being. The percentages of the mediating effects that comprised the total effects were 26.3% for perceptual—self-focused, 26.5% for perceptual—other-focused, 23.5% for rational—self-focused, and 23.7% for rational—other-focused. Conclusion: Breast cancer patients’ subjective well-being can be improved by their character strengths and high levels of perceived social support.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document