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Predicting Cardiac Patients' Quality of Life from the Characteristics of Their Spouses

Kerstin E.E. Schröder

Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Ralf Schwarzer

Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Norman S. Endler

York University, Canada

Recovery from surgery can be facilitated by personal and social resources such as perceived self-efficacy and social support. Moreover, the existence of a social network and the behavior of its members can also have a positive effect. Patients (N = 381; 302 men, 79 women) undergoing heart surgery were surveyed once before and twice after surgery. In addition, 114 social-network members (18 men, 96 women), most of them spouses, reported about their own perceived resources at Time 1. The patient-spouse dyad was chosen as the unit of analysis. It turned out that characteristics of spouses were related to those of patients. Recovery from surgery at Time 2 and readjustment to normal life after half a year (Time 3) could be partly predicted by spouses' perceived self-efficacy and social support as measured at Time 1.

Key Words: quality of life • recovery • self- efficacy • social support • spouse, surgery

Journal of Health Psychology, Vol. 2, No. 2, 231-244 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/135910539700200219
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