Attachment Insecurity in Advanced Cancer Patients: Psychometric Properties of the German Version of the Brief Experiences in Close Relationships Scale (ECR-M16-G)

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 555-562

  Philipp, Rebecca ^a   Vehling, Sigrun ^a   Scheffold, Katharina ^a   Grünke, Britta ^a   Härter, Martin ^a   Mehnert, Anja ^b   Oechsle, Karin ^a   Schulz Kindermann, Frank ^a   Lo, Christopher ^c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^c PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

advanced; attachment insecurity; Cancer; depression; oncology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTACHMENT INSECURITY; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BRIEF EXPERIENCES IN CLOSE RELATIONSHIPS SCALE; CANCER PATIENT; CONCURRENT VALIDITY; DEMORALIZATION; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; FEMALE; FRUSTRATION; GERMAN (LANGUAGE); HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT WORRY; PSYCHOMETRY; RATING SCALE; TRUST; WELLBEING; ANXIETY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COPING BEHAVIOR; EVALUATION STUDY; FACTOR ANALYSIS; HUMAN RELATION; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEOPLASM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; OBJECT RELATION; PSYCHOLOGY; RELIGION; TRANSLATING (LANGUAGE); VERY ELDERLY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; DEPRESSION; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; PSYCHOMETRICS; SPIRITUALITY; TRANSLATING; TRUST;

EID: 85032980603     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: 18736513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2017.07.026     Document Type: Article

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