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标题：Existential Meaning-Making Coping in Iran: A Qualitative Study among Patients with Cancer
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作者：Fereshteh Ahmadi ; Mohammad Khodayarifard ; Mohammad Rabbani 等
期刊名称：Social Sciences
印刷版ISSN：2076-0760
出版年度：2022
卷号：11
期号：2
页码：80
DOI：10.3390/socsci11020080
语种：English
出版社：MDPI, Open Access Journal
摘要：This article is written on the basis of a study on meaning-making coping in Iran. The study is a part of an international project in 10 countries with different religious and cultural backgrounds. This article aims to discuss the secular existential meaning-making coping methods employed by Iranian cancer patients. Interviews were conducted with 27 participants with various kinds of cancer. Nine secular existential meaning-making coping strategies emerged from the analyses of the qualitative interviews. These coping methods are as follows: Ignoring the illness, Distraction, Altruism, Encounter with others, Nature, Discourse of the self, Visualization, Positive solitude, and Positive thinking and transformational orientation. It seems that, using these strategies, our sample of Iranian cancer patients/survivors have been denying/ignoring their illness, and/or empowering themselves. We discuss the results, considering the potential influence of cultural elements, including Iranian Islam, Persian mysticism, and Persian literature, on the selection of the coping strategies. The study contributes to our understanding of coping via elucidating how seriously ill individuals in Iran try to manage the challenges caused by a health crisis.