Mental Adjustment to Cancer scale.

MAC

What it measures

Coping/adjustment styles to a cancer diagnosis: fighting spirit, helplessness-hopelessness, anxious preoccupation, fatalism, cognitive avoidance

Length and format

40 (Mini-MAC: 29). 4-point Likert (does not apply to applies very much) (self-report questionnaire)

Language versions

Many languages (ES, EL, PT, PL, ZH, and others) - especially the Mini-MAC

Normative data

No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.

Licence

copyrighted - author permission

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Reference

Watson, M., Greer, S., Young, J., Inayat, Q., Burgess, C., & Robertson, B. (1988). Development of a questionnaire measure of adjustment to cancer: the MAC scale. Psychological Medicine, 18(1), 203-209.