Optimistic: Building Subjective Well-being and Post Traumatic Growth on Post-mastectomy Women

Nurul Hartini, Vania Ardelia, Valina Khiarin Nisa

2018

Abstract

Losing the anatomy of the body will bring psychological pressure. For women, losing parts of the body that have symbolic benefits such as breast will lead them to extreme emotional response. Mastectomy is one of breast cancer treatment that makes a woman lose one or all of her breasts. This study was conducted to examine the role of optimism in post-traumatic development in post-mastectomy women with subjective well-being as a variable mediator. Instruments used in this study were post-traumatic growth questionnaires, subjective well-being questionnaires, and optimistic questionnaires. Data were collected from 78 post-mastectomy patients and chemotherapy or radiation therapy treatments. Regression Hayes Process statistical techniques used to analyse data. Results showed that optimism provides subjective prediction and positive relation direction with subjective well-being. Therefore, an increase of optimism will affect subjective well-being to increase as well. Optimism also found to be significant in predicting post-traumatic growth. However, subjective well-being may not necessarily directly increase post-traumatic growth of post-mastectomy breast cancer patients.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Hartini N., Ardelia V. and Nisa V. (2018). Optimistic: Building Subjective Well-being and Post Traumatic Growth on Post-mastectomy Women.In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Psychology in Health, Educational, Social, and Organizational Settings - Volume 1: ICP-HESOS, ISBN 978-989-758-435-0, pages 162-167. DOI: 10.5220/0008586701620167

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icp-hesos18,
author={Nurul Hartini and Vania Ardelia and Valina Khiarin Nisa},
title={Optimistic: Building Subjective Well-being and Post Traumatic Growth on Post-mastectomy Women},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Psychology in Health, Educational, Social, and Organizational Settings - Volume 1: ICP-HESOS,},
year={2018},
pages={162-167},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0008586701620167},
isbn={978-989-758-435-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Psychology in Health, Educational, Social, and Organizational Settings - Volume 1: ICP-HESOS,
TI - Optimistic: Building Subjective Well-being and Post Traumatic Growth on Post-mastectomy Women
SN - 978-989-758-435-0
AU - Hartini N.
AU - Ardelia V.
AU - Nisa V.
PY - 2018
SP - 162
EP - 167
DO - 10.5220/0008586701620167