PENERIMAAN DIRI PADA WANITA “SINGLE PARENT” SURVIVOR KANKER PAYUDARA PASCA MASEKTOMI DI KOTA BEKASI

Abstrak

This study aims to explore and explore more deeply how the description of the experience of self-acceptance in single parent women with breast cancer survivors after mastectomy. The method used in this research is qualitative with a phenomenological approach. This study involved two subjects and two significant others. Two of the subjects of this study were women who were diagnosed with breast cancer and had had a mastectomy. While the other two significant others are children of each subject. Methods of data collection using in-depth interviews, observation and documentation. This research is expected to be able to provide an overview of how the experience that has been passed by a subject who is a single parent as well as a breast cancer survivor and has done a mastectomy (breast removal) to be able to accept himself after a mastectomy which makes the subject lose his breasts. The description of self-acceptance that has been passed by the two subjects to be able to accept themselves as a whole and make the subject more optimistic in living life, among others: (1) rejection of the subject; (2) negative emotions, namely negative thoughts felt by the subject; (3) the subject's fear of seeing the condition of his own body; (4) the social support received by the subject; (5) the subject's adjustment; (6) the subject learns to love himself; (7) and finally the subject can accept himself as a whole (self-acceptance).