Kontakt 2021, 23(4):323-329 | DOI: 10.32725/kont.2021.033

Type D personality, clinical characteristics and working life among cancer survivorsSocial Sciences in Health - Original article

Siti Raba'ah Hamzah1, *, Zulaiha Muda2, Siti Nur Syuhada Musa1, Abu Bakar Mohamed Razali1
1 Universiti Putra Malaysia, Faculty of Educational Studies, Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia
2 Kuala Lumpur Hospital, Institute of Paediatrics, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

The purpose of this study was to investigate the association of Type D personality with demographic factors and various clinical characteristics, as well as the relationship of Type D personality with the quality of working life among adult childhood cancer survivors. A cross-sectional survey was conducted from 1st September 2018 until 1st September 2019. The participants were working adult childhood cancer survivors who were undergoing hospital follow-up sessions. Type D personality was assessed using the Type D scale, while the quality of working of life was evaluated using the Quality of Working Life Questionnaire for Cancer Survivors. Descriptive statistics, independent-samples t-tests, one-way analysis of variance and bivariate correlations were used to analyse the data collected. Among the adult childhood cancer survivors, 25.3 percent were found to have Type D personality. The study results showed the association of Type D personality with employment status [F(2, 66) = 3.27, p = 0.028] and the number of cancer diagnoses performed [t(67) = -3.89, p = 0.000]. Type D personality was also associated with decreased quality of working life (r = -0.289, n = 69, p < 0.05). This investigation, the first to assess Type D personality among adult childhood cancer survivors in Malaysia, offers new knowledge that can be used to help practitioners design intervention strategies to curb damaging psychological tendencies among this group, and improve their emotional and social wellbeing.

Keywords: Cancer survivors; Clinical characteristics, Quality of working life; Type D personality
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The authors gratefully acknowledge the funding support provided by the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia (2018–2020), Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM/700-2/1/GPB/2017/9597500).

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The authors declare that they have no competing interests in conducting this study.

Received: November 6, 2020; Revised: February 5, 2021; Accepted: June 30, 2021; Prepublished online: July 21, 2021; Published: December 6, 2021  Show citation

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Hamzah SR, Muda Z, Musa SNS, Bakar Mohamed Razali A. Type D personality, clinical characteristics and working life among cancer survivors. Kontakt. 2021;23(4):323-329. doi: 10.32725/kont.2021.033.
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