Posttraumatic growth inventory: challenges with its validation among French cancer patients

Table 3 (a) Correlations between the new PTGI scores and the Brief Cope scores and (b) associations between the new PTGI scores and the cancer location

	Relating to others	New life direction	Personal capacities	Spiritual Change
(a) Correlation with Brief Cope scores (Spearman’s correlation coefficients r)
Positive reframing	0.37^*	0.40^*	0.46^*	0.25
Active coping	0.35^*	0.41^*	0.39^*	0.15
Planning	0.34^*	0.38^*	0.30^*	0.19
Humor	0.35^*	0.32^*	0.36^*	0.03
Acceptance	0.22	0.21	0.31^*	0.08
Self-distraction	0.17	0.24	0.15	0.08
Venting	0.37^*	0.36^*	0.28	0.11
Instrumental support	0.36^*	0.35^*	0.22	0.15
Emotional support	0.23	0.24	0.11	0.13
Religion	0.31^*	0.28	0.22	0.75^*
Self-blame	0.18	0.20	0.02	0.18
Denial	0.06	0.03	0.02	0.07
Behavioral disengagement	−0.07	−0.10	−0.13	0.01
Substance use	− 0.08	− 0.04	−0.09	− 0.04
(b) Association with cancer location (median of the sum scores for each domain and IQR)
Women with breast cancer (n = 299)	14.0 [IQR = 8.0]	10.0 [IQR = 7.0]	13.0 [IQR = 6.0]	1.0 [IQR = 3.0]
Women with melanoma (n = 32)	14.0 [IQR = 8.5]	8.5 [IQR = 7.0]	10.5 [IQR = 7.5]	0.0 [IQR = 1.5]
p-value ^a	0.321	0.030	0.046	0.034

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