Adaptive and maladaptive emotions in patients with cancer: A network perspective

G Elise Doppenberg-Smit, Adriaan W Hoogendoorn, Annemarie MJ Braamse, Jan Willem B de Groot, Rutger Koornstra, Evelien JM Kuip, Rune AW van de Wetering, Lia van Zuylen · 2026

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Elise Doppenberg-Smit and eight colleagues wrote this 2026 PLOS ONE research article about people living with cancer. It examines the emotions these patients feel, both adaptive ones that help coping and maladaptive ones that make life harder. The authors take a network perspective on how those emotions connect.

In a network view, emotions are not treated as one mood score but as linked states that can trigger or calm each other. Seeing which feelings sit at the center of the web may show where support could help most. Psycho-oncology teams designing emotional support for patients are the readers most likely to use this map.

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CREATORG Elise Doppenberg-Smit, Adriaan W Hoogendoorn, Annemarie MJ Braamse, Jan Willem B de Groot, Rutger Koornstra, Evelien JM Kuip, Rune AW van de Wetering, Lia van Zuylen
YEAR2026
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE43460
LICENSECC_BY
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEPLOS

Source: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0341290

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