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A psychometric analysis of the Mental Adjustment to Cancer Scale

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Carolyn E. Schwartz ,
Lawren H. Daltroy ,
Ursula Brandt ,
Richard Friedman  and
Leo Stolbach
Carolyn E. Schwartz*
Affiliation:
Department of Behavioral Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health; Section on Behavioral Medicine, Mind/Body Medical Institute, New England Deaconess Hospital, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Multipurpose Arthritis Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston; Department of Psychiatry, SUNY, Stony Brook, New York, USA
Lawren H. Daltroy
Affiliation:
Department of Behavioral Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health; Section on Behavioral Medicine, Mind/Body Medical Institute, New England Deaconess Hospital, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Multipurpose Arthritis Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston; Department of Psychiatry, SUNY, Stony Brook, New York, USA
Ursula Brandt
Affiliation:
Department of Behavioral Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health; Section on Behavioral Medicine, Mind/Body Medical Institute, New England Deaconess Hospital, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Multipurpose Arthritis Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston; Department of Psychiatry, SUNY, Stony Brook, New York, USA
Richard Friedman
Affiliation:
Department of Behavioral Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health; Section on Behavioral Medicine, Mind/Body Medical Institute, New England Deaconess Hospital, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Multipurpose Arthritis Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston; Department of Psychiatry, SUNY, Stony Brook, New York, USA
Leo Stolbach
Affiliation:
Department of Behavioral Sciences, Harvard School of Public Health; Section on Behavioral Medicine, Mind/Body Medical Institute, New England Deaconess Hospital, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Multipurpose Arthritis Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston; Department of Psychiatry, SUNY, Stony Brook, New York, USA
*
1 Address for correspondence: Dr Carolyn E. Schwartz, Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
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Synopsis

This paper describes a psychometric replication study of a British coping scale, the Mental Adjustment to Cancer scale, on 239 USA cancer patients. The internal consistency and construct validity were similar to the original validation study. However, the factor structure was different. Cultural differences between the British and USA patient populations are discussed.

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Information
Psychological Medicine , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , February 1992 , pp. 203 - 210
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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