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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Cancer Surviv. 2009 Apr 25;3(2):128–136. doi: 10.1007/s11764-009-0085-2

Table 1.

Problem-solving styles, emotional distress, adaptation to chronic illness, and physical function in breast cancer survivors’ post primary treatment and one-year post treatment

Post treatment
12-Month post treatment
Variable N Range M SD N Range M SD Wilcoxon signed rank test
Problem solving inventory (total) 115 35–154 78.6 22.6 98 36–142 78.2 18.5 .07
Problem-solving confidence 116 11–52 22.6 7.5 98 11–42 23.1 6.9 .23
Approach-avoidance style 116 17–75 40.5 12.7 98 16–80 41.1 11.2 1.01
Personal control 116 5–28 15.4 5.2 98 5–30 14.1 4.5 −2.25*
Global severity index 113 0–2.5 0.4 0.4 97 0–2.6 0.4 0.5 −1.40
Psychological adjustment to illness scale-self-report 96 2–82.5 24.6 14.3 87 0–93 18.4 16.8 −4.38****
Functional living index-cancer: function 105 14–49 35.9 7.6 90 18–49 41.4 7.1 7.17****
*

p<.05

**

p<.01

***

p<.001

****

p<.0001