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Journal of Pediatric Psychology 16(6) pp. 767-782, 1991
© 1991 Society of Pediatric Psychology

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Coping with Cancer in Remission: Stressors and Strategies Reported by Children and Adolescents1

Beth Anne Bull2 and Dennis Drotar

Case Western Reserve University

2All correspondence should be sent to Beth Anne Bull, Department of Psychology, Case Western Reserve University, 11220 Bellflower Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106.

Thirty-nine school-age children and adolescents with cancer in remission completed the Children's Stress Inventory (CSI) and a cancer-related stress and coping measure (McCabe & Weisz. 1988) that elicited information about their life stressors and coping strategies. Children identified a range of stressors including general life and cancer-related stress, but general life stressors accounted for the majority of their perceived stress. Children were not consistent across cancer-related and non-cancer-related stressful situations, except for their use of intrapsychic coping strategies. Compared with school-age children, adolescents used more emotion-management and less problem-solving coping strategies when faced with cancer-related stressors, but not when dealing with non-cancer-related stress. When coping with cancer-related stress, females used more emotion-management and less problem-solving strategies than males. Findings have implications for refinement of measures and future research.

Key words: cancer; coping; life stress.


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