Calderón Garrido, CaterinaFerrando Piera, Pere JoanLorenzo Seva, UrbanoCarmona Bayonas, AlbertoJara, CarlosAyala de la Peña, FranciscoBeato, CarmenRamchandani, AvinashGarcía-García, TeresaMangas-Izquierdo, MontserratCastelo, BeatrizDonnay, OlgaMuñoz, Maria del MarMartínez de Castro, EvaGarcía, SaraGhanem, IsmaelMellén Vinagre, TeodorJiménez Fonseca, Paula2017-11-202017-11-202017-07-010212-9728https://hdl.handle.net/2445/117946Stoicism has been used to describe a wide range of behaviors in the face of disease that go from silence, resistance to the adversity, or 'to make the best of a bad disease'. This study pursued two objectives: 1) analyze the psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the LSS; 2) assess the relation between stoicism and gender, age, and the five-factor personality model. NEOcoping is a prospective, multicenter, observational, non-interventionist study. Patients were recruited consecutively at thirteen Spanish teaching hospitals. The following scales were administered: Liverpool Stoicism Scale (LSS) and Big Five Inventory (BFI-10). A total of 443 patients (250 females) with a mean age of 59.8 years (SD =12.3) were enrolled. Colon cancer was the most common, followed by breast cancer. At the total-scale level, mean LSS was lower than the originally reported British sample. The four-factor structure fitted the data well, had a clear interpretation, and the derived scales showed acceptable reliabilities. The personality trait of introversion predicted 4.1% of the variance of stoicism (p<.001). Even though it needs to be improved, the LSS scale demonstrates acceptable psychometric properties to appraise stoicism in the Spanish population with resected cancer.9 p.application/pdfengcc-by-nc-nd (c) Universidad de Murcia, 2017http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/esEstoïcismeActitud (Psicologia)CàncerPsicometriaStoicismAttitude (Psychology)CancerPsychometricsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article6733482017-11-20info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess