Strength through adversity: Moderate lifetime stress exposure is associated with psychological resilience in breast cancer survivors

Stress and Health

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 549-557

  Dooley, Larissa N ^a   Slavich, George M ^b   Moreno, Patricia I ^c   Bower, Julienne E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

breast cancer; health; quadratic; resilience; stress

Indexed keywords

ACUTE STRESS; ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SURVIVOR; CHRONIC STRESS; COGNITION; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; INTRUSIVE THOUGHT; LIFE STRESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ADJUSTMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RESILIENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING; BREAST TUMOR; COPING BEHAVIOR; FOLLOW UP; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; VERY ELDERLY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CANCER SURVIVORS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 85007543283     PISSN: 15323005     EISSN: 15322998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/smi.2739     Document Type: Article

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