Precancer risk perceptions predict postcancer subjective well-being

Health Psychology

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1023-1032

  Persoskie, Alexander ^a   Ferrer, Rebecca A ^a   Nelson, Wendy L ^a   Klein, William M P ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Optimism; Resilience; Risk perception; Subjective well being

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER RISK; CANCER SURVIVOR; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEPRESSION; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LIFE SATISFACTION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPTIMISM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVARY CANCER; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRECANCER; PROSTATE CANCER; SAMPLE; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; UTERUS CANCER; WELLBEING;

ADULT; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PERSONAL SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVORS; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84908348825     PISSN: 02786133     EISSN: 19307810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/hea0000074     Document Type: Article

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