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Women diagnosed with breast cancer often experience unpleasant emotions, resulting
in higher levels of emotional burden and decreased levels of wellbeing and quality of life.
The present correlational and cross-sectional study aims to compare the implementation
of two regulatory levels, intrapersonal and interpersonal (as social sharing of emotions),
and two types of strategies, antecedent-focused and response-focused, and explore
their impact on breast cancer patients’ perception of quality of life. Sixty-eight women
previously diagnosed with the disease participated in this study, with a mean age of
63 years old (SD=11.58). Data were collected through a self-report questionnaire to
assess emotional experience, intrapersonal regulation, social sharing of emotions, and
breast cancer-related wellbeing and quality of life. Data yielded that most of the participants
regulated their negative emotions within social interactions and made more use of
antecedent-focused strategies to cognitively reformulate the emotional episode. Social
and family wellbeing were positively associated with antecedent-focused strategies, as
well as intrapersonal and interpersonal regulatory levels. Moreover, the occurrence of
sharing episodes and social interactions played an important and beneficial role on
patients’ perceived quality of life. These findings reinforce the importance of promoting
an adaptive intrapersonal regulation among breast cancer patients. Results also suggest
that social sharing of emotions is an efficient process to help them to better cope with
the psychological and emotional burden of the disease, thus positively influencing the
way they perceive their social and family wellbeing, as well as their quality of life.
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breast cancer, emotion regulation, emotional sharing, negative emotions, wellbeing, quality of life, adaptation to illness
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Moura R, Camilo C and Luís S (2021) As Strong as We Are United: Effects of Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Emotion Regulation on Quality of Life in Women With Breast Cancer. Front. Psychol. 12:661496. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.661496