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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Schnur, Julie B
• Valdimarsdottir, Heiddis B
• Montgomery, Guy H
• Nevid, Jeffrey S
• Bovbjerg, Dana H

Titel

Social constraints and distress among women at familial risk for breast cancer

Ist Teil von

• Annals of behavioral medicine, 2004-10, Vol.28 (2), p.142-148

Ort / Verlag

England: Oxford University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2004

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Oxford Journals 2020 Medicine

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Despite literature finding support for the social cognitive processing model, which suggests that social constraints are related to distress, few studies have examined possible mediators of this effect; none have examined this relation among women with family histories of breast cancer (FH+). This study was designed to examine possible effects of social constraints on psychological distress among FH+ women. Six FH+ women (M age = 39.2 years) completed self-report measures of social constraints, avoidance, and general and cancer-specific distress. Multiple regression analyses revealed that social constraints were significantly related to both cancer-specific and general distress and that avoidance partially mediated the relation between social constraints and both types of distress. Theoretical and clinical implications of these findings are discussed.