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The Complexity of Body Image in Post-Mastectomy Women and Social Support

Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology / Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology, (P)1229-0653;
2010, v.24 no.1, pp.129-147
https://doi.org/10.21193/kjspp.2010.24.1.009

(2010). The Complexity of Body Image in Post-Mastectomy Women and Social Support. Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology, 24(1), 129-147, https://doi.org/10.21193/kjspp.2010.24.1.009

Abstract

The study aims at mapping out social service programs through women performed the surgery to remove their breast cancer by examining the quality of their lives and grasping their needs for social support. Post-mastectomy women cannot help experiencing loss of their feminity and physical pains. Not only that, but they should face recognition of death, social gaze and so on. These various experiences caused by their physical change are inevitably reflected in their body image. It, therefore, can be said that their body image is closely connected with recognition of their own body as well as the quality of their actual lives. The changes which women might experience after surgery have usually negative influence on their lives. Researches on women's breast cancer have been made focusing on the one-dimensional body image, that is, loss of their feminity after their breast cancer surgery. Recent researches on the same subject, however, trend to handle various aspects of their body image. The study also inquires their body image and needs for social support, the quality of their lives, and etc. through women performed their breast cancer surgery. The main results of the study are as follows. First, after their breast cancer surgery women think of physical suffering and possibility and fear of death. The thing that is the most important in the process of medical care is their psychological comfort. And it is then necessary that they get disease-related information or knowledge. Second, six sub-elements of body image such as body stigma, arm concern, body concerns, vulnerability, limitation, and transparency show negative image by high degree of above the average. The element which affects the body image most is the method of surgery. Third, the body image gives more accurate explanations for the quality of their lives than other elements. On the basis of the results, it suggests the necessary policy of social support for women who undergo mastectomy to improve the quality of their lives as 'Look good and feel better', 'Information about what to expect and about symptom prevention and management' and ' for the existential body, 'Active listening to fears and concerns and providing assistance as needed' according to complexity of body image.

keywords
신체 이미지, 유방전절제술, 신체의 불완전성, 팔의 장애, 몸에 대한 관심, 신체의 취약성, 신체활동 제약, 타인의 시선 인식, body image, post-mastectomy, body stigma, arm concern, body concerns, vulnerability, limitations, transparency

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