TY  - JOUR
A1  - Knoll, Nina
A1  - Wiedemann, Amelie U.
A1  - Schrader, Mark
A1  - Felber, Juliane
A1  - Burkert, Silke
A1  - Daig, Isolde
A1  - Heckhausen, Jutta
T1  - Calibrating Independence Goals and Partner Support: Couples Adjust to Functional Limitations after Tumor Surgery
JF  - Applied psychology : Health and well-being
N2  - When patients recover from disease-related functional limitations, support received from partners may not always match patients' changing independence goals. The lines of defense (LoD) model proposes a hierarchy of independence goals (LoDs), ranging from minimising discomfort by disengagement (lowest LoD) to protection of self-reliance (highest LoD). Prostate cancer patients' LoDs were examined as moderators of the association between partner support and patients' and partners' affect during patients' recovery from postsurgical functional limitations. MethodsData from 169 couples were assessed four times within 7months following patients' surgery. Patients reported on post-surgery functional limitations (i.e. incontinence), LoDs, affect, and received partner support. Partners reported on affect and support provided to patients. ResultsIn patients endorsing lower LoDs, more received support was associated with less negative affect. Also, not endorsing high LoDs while receiving strong partner support was related to patients' lower negative and higher positive affect. Partners' support provision to patients tended to be associated with increases in partners' negative affect when patients had endorsed higher LoDs and with increases in positive affect when patients had endorsed lower LoDs. Matching patients' independence goals or LoDs with partners' support may be beneficial for patients' and partners' affect.
KW  - couples
KW  - independence goals
KW  - lines of defense
KW  - prostate cancer
KW  - social support
Y1  - 2015
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1111/aphw.12043
SN  - 1758-0846
SN  - 1758-0854
VL  - 7
IS  - 2
SP  - 167
EP  - 187
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
CY  - Hoboken
ER  -