Emotionally expressive coping predicts psychological and physical adjustment to breast cancer.

This study tested the hypothesis that coping through emotional approach, which involves actively processing and expressing emotions, enhances adjustment and health status for breast cancer patients. Patients (n ?=?92) completed measures within 20 weeks following medical treatment and 3 months later. Women who, at study entry, coped through expressing emotions surrounding cancer had fewer medical appointments for cancer-related morbidities, enhanced physical health and vigor, and decreased distress during the next 3 months compared with those low in emotional expression, with age, other coping strategy scores, and initial levels on dependent variables (except medical visits) controlled statistically. Expressive coping also was related to improved quality of life for those who perceived their social contexts as highly receptive. Coping through emotional processing was related to one index of greater distress over time. Analyses including dispositional hope suggested that expressive coping may serve as a successful vehicle for goal pursuit. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved)     

Fabrication of 24-MHz-Disk Resonators With Silicon Passive Integration Technology

A new approach for the fabrication of large contour-mode single-crystal silicon resonators has been demonstrated without the use of SOI substrates. Twenty-four-megahertz disk resonators have been built thanks to industrial facilities dedicated to the integration of passive components on silicon and exhibit a good compromise between the quality factor higher than 50 000 and the motional resistance of a few kiloohms.