psychological correlates of cancer: worry, life style, self-eficacy   ranjbar noushari f[1]*, mohadesi h [2], asadi majareh s [3], hashemi ss[4]   received: 6 jul , 2013 accepted: 16 sep , 2013 abstract background & aims: cancer, as one of the most current century diseases, is determined by the unnatural deformation of cells and by the loss of cellar distinction. some research show that psychol...

UNLABELLED [Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported in Vol 33(3) of Health Psychology (see record 2014-07787-001). The name of author Misook Jung was misspelled as Mi Sook Jung. All versions of this article have been corrected.] OBJECTIVE Altered cognitive function has been associated with breast cancer treatment, particularly adjuvant chemotherapy, but the underlying neur...

Worry is often assessed with the 16-item Penn State Worry Questionnaire (PSWQ; Meyer, Miller, Metzger, & Borkovec, 1990. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 28, 487-495), but the factor structure of the PSWQ is not well articulated. Three factor analyses of the PSWQ have been conducted, with two (Brown, Antony, & Barlow, 1992. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 30, 33-37; van Rijsoort, Emmelkamp, & Ve...

BACKGROUND Limited data are available on the association between colorectal cancer (CRC) worry and CRC screening uptake, particularly in rural and underserved populations where there is an excess burden of CRC. METHODS Between September 2009 and March 2010, we conducted a cross-sectional study among a randomly selected sample of Appalachian Ohio residents aged 51-75 years (n= 1084). We also r...

Development and validation of the Penn State Worry Questionnaire. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 28, 487-495.] for weekly assessment of worry was evaluated in a brief treatment study. Cognitive restructuring techniques were taught to 28 nonclinical high-worriers, 14 of whom served as a control group in a lagged waiting-list design. Results showed that the Penn State Worry Questionnaire-Past We...

We have demonstrated in a previous study that a high degree of worry in patients with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) correlates positively with intelligence and that a low degree of worry in healthy subjects correlates positively with intelligence. We have also shown that both worry and intelligence exhibit an inverse correlation with certain metabolites in the subcortical white matter. Her...