Purpose of life in family caregivers of people diagnosed with cancer

• Autor: Huamani Cahua, Julio César
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2017
• Institución: Universidad Femenina del Sagrado Corazón
• Repositorio: Revistas - Universidad Femenina del Sagrado Corazón
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:revistas.unife.edu.pe:article/137
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistas.unife.edu.pe/index.php/avancesenpsicologia/article/view/137
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Sentido de vida; cáncer; cuidador familiar; Purpose of life; cancer; family caregiver

In this study we explore the purpose of life in 101 family caregivers of people diagnosed with cancer, selected by non-probabilistic sampled from Cancer Diseases Regional Institute at Arequipa. The sample was conformed by 58,4% female people and 41,6% male. The instrument used was Purpose in Life Test (Crumbaugh & Maholick, 1968), adapted for Noblejas (2000) in Latino sample. We found a purpose in life which indicates a clear existential aim in the 55,4% of the caregivers, without differences by age, type and cancer gravity. Although, there are significant diff erences by sex (p< 0.05), so the males have high er scores than women in perception of sense, goals and duties. Moreover, we observed that 9% of the caregivers have existential emptiness and absence of purpose in life, being the most of them, females.