Relationships between attentional bias, posttraumatic growth, and psychopathology in breast cancer patients

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wing-chiu, Michelle Chan
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Posttraumatic Growth ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Attentional Bias ◽  
Breast Cancer Patients

The Posttraumatic Growth Inventory: Factor Structure and Invariance in a Sample of Breast Cancer Patients and in a Non-Clinical Sample

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catarina Ramos ◽  
Isabel Leal ◽  
Ana Lúcia Marôco ◽  
Richard G. Tedeschi
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Posttraumatic Growth ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Factor Structure ◽  
Goodness Of Fit ◽  
Clinical Sample ◽  
Five Factor Model ◽  
Breast Cancer Patients ◽  
Factor Loadings ◽  
Posttraumatic Growth Inventory

AbstractThe Posttraumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI) is frequently used to assess positive changes following a traumatic event. The aim of the study is to examine the factor structure and the latent mean invariance of PTGI. A sample of 205 (Mage = 54.3, SD = 10.1) women diagnosed with breast cancer and 456 (Mage = 34.9, SD = 12.5) adults who had experienced a range of adverse life events were recruited to complete the PTGI and a socio-demographic questionnaire. We use Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) to test the factor-structure and multi-sample CFA to examine the invariance of the PTGI between the two groups. The goodness of fit for the five-factor model is satisfactory for breast cancer sample (χ2(175) = 396.265; CFI = .884; NIF = .813; RMSEA [90% CI] = .079 [.068, .089]), and good for non-clinical sample (χ2(172) = 574.329; CFI = .931; NIF = .905; RMSEA [90% CI] = .072 [.065, .078]). The results of multi-sample CFA show that the model fit indices of the unconstrained model are equal but the model that uses constrained factor loadings is not invariant across groups. The findings provide support for the original five-factor structure and for the multidimensional nature of posttraumatic growth (PTG). Regarding invariance between both samples, the factor structure of PTGI and other parameters (i.e., factor loadings, variances, and co-variances) are not invariant across the sample of breast cancer patients and the non-clinical sample.

Posttraumatic Growth and Quality of Life in Breast Cancer Patients

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael A. Zevon ◽  
James P. Donnelly ◽  
Laura M. Kerenyi ◽  
Hamed Rezaishiraz ◽  
Andrew J. Hyland
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Posttraumatic Growth ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Breast Cancer Patients
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