Relationship of attribution style with negative emotion and personality characteristics of patients with gastric cancer / 现代临床护理

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the relationship between attribution style and negative emotion and personality characteristics of patients with gastric cancer. Methods Toally 62 gastric cancer patients hospitalized in our hospital during Nov. 2015 and May. 2016 were assigned as study group and another 65 healthy people in the same period as control group. The investigation was done among all patients with general situation questionnaire, attributional style questionnaire, neuroticism extraversion openness five-factor inventory, Hamilton anxiety scale and Hamilton depression scale. Results Compared with the control group, the total scores on positive events and each dimension in the case group had no significant difference as compared with the control group, while the score on the negative events was significantly increased (P<0.05). The scores on depression and anxiety in the case group were also significantly higher. The extraversion, neuroticism, conscientiousness, pleasant personality of the study group were significantly higher than those of the control group (P<0.05). The total score on negative events of the study group was negatively correlated with scores of extraversion, neuroticism and pleasant personality (P<0.05), and positively related to depression and anxiety (P<0.01). Conclusions In patients with gastric cancer, the negative event attribution is related with negative emotions postively and personality negatively. The intervened event attributional style is of significance for preventing the diseases.