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Depression and anxiety are now considered as common adverse reactions to cancer. Prior research has shown that social support and functional coping strategies alleviate depressive and anxious symptoms of cancer patients but the exact relationship between social support and coping strategies in amelioration of the symptoms is yet to be elaborated.

The current study examined the relationship between social support, coping strategies and depressive-anxious symptomatology and explored the possible role of coping strategies in mediating the relationship between social support, depression and anxiety in Iranian breast cancer patients (N = 221). Anxiety and depressive symptoms were measured using the Depression-Anxiety-Stress (DASS-21) scale, social support was measured using the Medical Outcome Survey, Social Support Scale (MOSS-SSS), and coping strategies were measured …