Rumination, Fatigue and Psychological Resilience in Cancer Experience

• Published in: Psikiyatride güncel yaklaşimlar 2020-09, Vol.12 (3), p.421-433
• Main Authors: Öcalan, Sinem, Özçetin, Yeter Sinem Uzar
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Anxiety; Cancer; Disease; Fatigue; Post traumatic stress disorder; Post-traumatic growth; psychological resilience; Quality of life; rumination; Self image
• ISSN: 1309-0658; 1309-0674; 1309-0674
• DOI: 10.18863/pgy.664396

Physiological problems such as anorexia, nausea, vomiting, pain, fatigue, and hair loss (Boltong et al. 2012, Andreyev et al. 2014, Neufeld et al. 2017, Lee et al. 2018) and psycho-social problems such as change of roles, fear of death, social withdrawal, depression, anxiety disorders (Gemalmaz and Avşar 2015, Cvetkovic ve Nenadovic 2016, Körükcü 2018) are seen in individuals. (2010) divided the ruminative way of thinking into two as intrusive and deliberate rumination. [...]intrusive ruminative thoughts, which are considered more negative and have the potential to negatively influence the individual's perspective, can decrease the level of physical, psychological and social well-being in the cancer process (Galfin and Watkins 2012, Javaid et al. 2018). The concept of cancer-related fatigue, whose physio-pathology is not clearly known, and on which central and environmental factors together are thought to be effective, including physical, emotional and cognitive domains (O'Higgins et al. 2018). [...]fatigue also has the potential to affect the evaluation and interpretation of the process by the individual, as in ruminative thoughts. Psychological resilience, which is an important premise of the concept of posttraumatic growth, which can be seen as a result of deliberate ruminative thinking, is the ability of the individual to maintain his/her psychological and physical functions relatively stable when s/he encounters stressful life events or to restore his/her impaired functions in a short time (Bonanno et al. 2011). [...]in stressful life experiences such as cancer experience, individuals can manage the process better and be freed from this negative situation by developing psychological resilience as a result of strengthening personal and social resources and teaching effective coping methods (Seiler and Jenewein 2019).