The relationship between psychosocial factors and breast cancer: some unexpected results
| Autor: | S. Gail Pearl, Cary L. Cooper, Jeffrey R. Edwards, Morton C. Wilhelm, Tom O'Leary, Ellen S. de Paredes |
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| Rok vydání: | 1990 |
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Personality Tests Coping (psychology) Adolescent MEDLINE Breast Neoplasms Life Change Events Social support Breast cancer Risk Factors Adaptation Psychological medicine Humans skin and connective tissue diseases Fibrocystic Breast Disease Applied Psychology Aged Aged 80 and over Life events Social Support Small sample Type A and Type B personality theory Type A Personality Middle Aged medicine.disease Psychophysiologic Disorders Psychiatry and Mental health Female Psychology Psychosocial Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Behavioral medicine (Washington, D.C.). 16(1) |
| ISSN: | 0896-4289 |
| Popis: | A growing body of research suggests a link between psychosocial factors and breast cancer. Research in this area often contains methodological problems, however, such as small sample size, inadequate comparison groups, omission of important control variables, inclusion of only a few psychosocial variables, and failure to analyze moderating effects. To overcome these problems, the present study examined the link between breast cancer and multiple psychosocial variables (life events, coping, Type A behavior pattern, availability of social support) among 1,052 women with and without breast cancer. After controlling for history of breast cancer and age, we found very few significant relationships between psychosocial variables and breast cancer. Furthermore, the relationship between life events and breast cancer was not moderated by coping, Type A, or availability of social support. Methodological and substantive reasons for these findings are discussed. |
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