Abstract
Women hold diverse beliefs about cancer etiology, potentially affecting their use of cancer preventive behaviors. Research has primarily focused on cancer causal attributions survivors and participants from non-diverse backgrounds hold. Less is known about attributions held by women with and without a family history of cancer from a diverse community sample. Participants reported factors they believed cause cancer. Open-ended responses were coded and relations between the top causal attributions and key factors were explored. Findings suggest certain socio-cultural factors play a role in the causal attributions women make about cancer, which can, in turn, inform cancer awareness and prevention messages.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 48-65 |
Number of pages | 18 |
Journal | Journal of Psychosocial Oncology |
Volume | 33 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 2 2015 |
Keywords
- cancer
- causal attributions
- causal beliefs
- family history
- heredity
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Oncology
- Applied Psychology
- Psychiatry and Mental health