Social support, health procrastination and flourishing in cancer patients

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Sana Fatima, Syed Zafar Sultan Rizvi, and S. Reshma Jamal (Department of Psychology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh)

Cancer, a dreadful disease, is considered as one of the top most causes of deaths around the globe. It isthe turning point in the life of the patients and their families. The diagnosis of cancer has a great impact on psychological and physical level. Social support plays a significant role in the life of an individual as it provides a feeling of security, sense of belonging, and it is increases self-worth of the patients. Health procrastination, or in other words, a delay in health examinations/checkup creates trouble in the life of an individual at the later stage. If a person reduces the attitude of procrastination and receives appropriate social support, he/she is more likely to flourish. Healthy Diet Procrastination Scale (HDPS) by Mohsen and Timothy, The Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS) developed by Zimet et al. (1988) and Flourishing Scale (Diener et al., 2010). Sample size was 100 cancer patients. Pearson moment Correlation and Multiple RegressionAnalysis (stepwise) was used.