Concerns about breast cancer and relations to psychosocial well-being in a multiethnic sample of early-stage patients

Health Psychology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 159-168

  Spencer, Stacie M ^c   Lehman, Jessica M ^c   Wynings, Christina ^c   Arena, Patricia ^c   Carver, Charles S ^b   Antoni, Michael H ^c   Derhagopian, Robert P ^c   Ironson, Gail ^c   Love, Neil ^a  

^a JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b University of Miami   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Ethnicity; Psychological well being; Psychosocial sequelae; Quality of life

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINORITY GROUP; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; SELF ESTEEM; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL ADAPTATION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; WELLBEING;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANXIETY; BODY IMAGE; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; QUALITY OF LIFE; SICK ROLE; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT;

EID: 0033030395     PISSN: 02786133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-6133.18.2.159     Document Type: Article

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