Table 7.

Cancer-related Negative Social Expectations Scale

Please respond to each item by marking one box per row.
	Strongly disagree	Moderately disagree	Slightly disagree	Slightly agree	Moderately agree	Strongly agree
1. If I told people about my cancer experience, they would be nervous and uncomfortable around me………………………	□	□	□	□	□	□
2. If people avoided discussing my cancer with me, I would think that they didn’t want to hear about it…………………….	□	□	□	□	□	□
3. People could not truly understand how I feel about my cancer diagnosis……………….	□	□	□	□	□	□
4. I would burden people if I shared my thoughts and feelings about cancer with them…………	□	□	□	□	□	□
5. People would not understand my uncertainty about the future since my cancer diagnosis……………………….	□	□	□	□	□	□

Note. Items were re-numbered for the final scale. The items above are items 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 from the original item pool.