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Contributors To And Correlates Of Loneliness In Lung Cancer Patients, Kelly A. Hyland
Contributors To And Correlates Of Loneliness In Lung Cancer Patients, Kelly A. Hyland
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Background
Loneliness, or the perceived discrepancy between the quantity and quality of ones’ actual social relationships and desired level of connectedness, is a potentially important psychosocial factor in lung cancer patients. The purpose of the current study was to investigate the relationship of loneliness to depressive symptoms, quality of life, and social-cognitive variables and to explore the role of loneliness in mediating relationships between social-cognitive variables and depressive symptoms and quality of life. Finally, the study examined whether loneliness predicted change over time in depressive symptoms and quality of life.
Methods
Lung cancer patients were recruited from the Moffitt Cancer …