TY - JOUR
KW - Life events
KW - breast cancer
KW - Stress
KW - Social support
KW - Psychosocial vulnerability factors
AU - Julia Sebastián
AU - Nuria Mateos
AU - Consuelo Prado
AB - The relationship between stress and cancer is a controversial topic in the scientific literature. The aim of the present paper is to study whether women diagnosed of breast cancer, prebiopsy cancer women (N=71) and undergoing cancer treatment women (N=106), differ from healthy control women (N=143) or benign breast disease (N= 290) in relation with severity and frequency of life-stress events and with the degree of peceived social support in the last two-years. Results show that there are not overall significant differences between these four groups (N=610 Ss) regarding life stress events´ severity and frequency neither social support. However, if age si taken into account, some interactions between such variable and the type of diagnosis are found.
IS - 1
M3 - Journal article
N2 - The relationship between stress and cancer is a controversial topic in the scientific literature. The aim of the present paper is to study whether women diagnosed of breast cancer, prebiopsy cancer women (N=71) and undergoing cancer treatment women (N=106), differ from healthy control women (N=143) or benign breast disease (N= 290) in relation with severity and frequency of life-stress events and with the degree of peceived social support in the last two-years. Results show that there are not overall significant differences between these four groups (N=610 Ss) regarding life stress events´ severity and frequency neither social support. However, if age si taken into account, some interactions between such variable and the type of diagnosis are found.
PB - Sociedad Española para el Estudio de la Ansiedad y el Estrés
PY - 2000
SN - 2174-0437/1134-7937
SP - 21
EP - 38
T2 - Ansiedad y Estrés
TI - Life stress events as vulnerability factors in breast cancer
VL - 6
ER -