Journal of Pediatric Psychology 22(1) pp. 29-43, 1997
© 1997 Society of Pediatric Psychology
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Body Image and Psychosocial Adjustment in Adolescent Cancer Survivors1
Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Cancer Center
2All correspondence should be sent to Jennifer Shroff Pendley, Division of Psychology, Alfred I. DuPont Institute, 1600 Rockland Road, P.O. Box 269, Wilmington, Delaware 19899.
Examined body image and social adjustment in 21 adolescents who had completed cancer treatment and a healthy comparison group. Subjects completed questionnaires assessing body image and social adjustment and were videotaped during an interview. Raters blind to health status independently rated subjects’ attractiveness. Cancer survivors reported less than half as many social activities as the healthy controls. No group differences were found on social anxiety, loneliness, or composite body image scores. However, within the cancer group adolescents who had been off treatment longer reported lower self–worth, more social anxiety, and more negative body image perceptions, but were not rated as less attractive by observers. Findings sugest body image concerns and social anxiety may not develop until several years after treatment termination.
Key words: adolescence; cancer; body image; psychosocial adjustment; late effects.
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