Applying the stress and 'strength' Hypothesis to black women's breast cancer screening delays

Stress and Health

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 389-396

  Black, Angela Rose ^a   Woods Giscombé, Cheryl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Black women; breast cancer screening; coping; strength; stress

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST CARE; CANCER SCREENING; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FEMININITY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; PATIENT ATTITUDE; RISK FACTOR; SELF CARE; SELF CONCEPT; STRESS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CULTURE; EARLY DETECTION OF CANCER; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RISK FACTORS; SELF CARE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WOMEN;

EID: 84868585778     PISSN: 15323005     EISSN: 15322998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smi.2464     Document Type: Article

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