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| Variables | Index | Research method |
| Patients | Caregivers |
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| Main variable |
| Social support | Perceived available support (PAS)
The need for support (NS)
Seeking support (SS)
Support currently received (SCR)
Protective buffering support (PBS) | Berlin social support scales (BSSS) |
| Independent (control) side variables |
| Types of support | Perceived emotional support (PES)
Perceived instrumental support (PIS)
Emotional support (EmS)
Instrumental support (InsS)
Information support (InfS)
Satisfaction with support (SwS) | Berlin social support scales (BSSS) |
| Main independent (control) variables |
| Personality structure | Extroversion (E)
Agreeableness (A)
Conscientiousness (C)
Emotional stability (ES)
Openness to experience (OE) | Ten-item personality inventory (TIPI) |
| The patient’s condition | The scale of experienced social pain
Emotional state | Social pain thermometer (SPT)
Emotion thermometer (ET) |
| Attitude during the treatment process | Attitude of satisfaction and optimism
Self-care and self-compassion | Positive orientation scale (POS)
State self-compassion scale (SSCS) |
| Attitude towards the person with cancer in the caring process | Attitude of satisfaction and optimism
Self-care and self-compassion
The need for support | Positive orientation scale (POS)
State self-compassion scale (SSCS) |
| Experienced emotions | Stress
Anxiety
Depression
Injustice
Anger
Exclusion
Loss | Emotion thermometer (ET)
Social pain thermometer (SPT) |
| Intermediate variables |
| Gender
Age
Education
Financial status
Place of residence | Personal questionnaire |
Type of cancer treatment
Duration of cancer treatment | Attitude to professional work
Degree of kinship to the person with cancer
Fear of developing the disease |
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