01431nas a2200241   4500000000100000008004100001260007600042653001100118653001900129653001100148653001500159100002900174700002100203700002300224700002400247700002200271245006900293300001200362490000600374520078100380022001401161020001401175       1994                            d  c01/1994bSociedad Española para el Estudio de la Ansiedad y el Estrés10aCoping10aSocial support10aCancer10aPredictors1 aJesús Rodríguez Marín1 aMª Carmen Terol1 aSofía López Roig1 aMª Ángeles Pastor1 aBartomeu Massutí00aPerceived stress and coping of the illness in oncologic patients  a113-1190 v03 aThe aim of this work is to study the ways of coping used by 79 oncological patients and which kind of psychosocial variables are related. Sociodemographic and clinical variables were also collected. The results showed different relationships between quantity of social support and frecuency of use to global active coping and "Count your blessings". In the other way, the satisfaction with social support is associated with frecuency of use of "Emotional Repressed" and "Blamed others" ways of coping. Sex and age variables appaaired as a predictors of different ways of coping. Finally, to strategies were predicted by stress: "Positive Thinking" and "Religiosity". Results are discussed attending importancy for adaptation to illness and intervention programmes development.  a1134-7937  a2174-0437