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The measurement of meaning in illness

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A scale is presented that operationalizes the concept of meaning as it is constructed within the context of life-threatening illness. Development of the scale is based on a symbolic interactionist perspective. The reliability and validity of the scale are examined using a sample of 422 persons with a variety of types of cancer at specified points in the illness trajectory. The scale was found to have item-total correlations ranging from 0.50 to 0.73, all significant at P

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  • Fife, Betsy L., 1995. "The measurement of meaning in illness," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 40(8), pages 1021-1028, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:socmed:v:40:y:1995:i:8:p:1021-1028
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    1. Aujoulat, Isabelle & Marcolongo, Renzo & Bonadiman, Leopoldo & Deccache, Alain, 2008. "Reconsidering patient empowerment in chronic illness: A critique of models of self-efficacy and bodily control," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 66(5), pages 1228-1239, March.
    2. Rezvan Ameli & Ninet Sinaii & María José Luna & Julia Cheringal & Brunilde Gril & Ann Berger, 2018. "The National Institutes of Health measure of Healing Experience of All Life Stressors (NIH-HEALS): Factor analysis and validation," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 13(12), pages 1-17, December.
    3. Fife, Betsy L., 2005. "The role of constructed meaning in adaptation to the onset of life-threatening illness," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 61(10), pages 2132-2143, November.

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    meaning cancer coping adaptation;

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