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Breast Cancer Diagnosis
Researchers studied self-blame attributions in women with newly diagnosed breast cancer
December 22nd, 2005
A recent report focused on self-blame attributions in women with newly diagnosed breast cancer. According to researchers in the United States, "Our study examined relations between behavioral and characterological self-blame attributions for breast cancer and psychological distress in the year following a diagnosis. One hundred fifteen women with newly diagnosed breast cancer participated." K.K. Bennett and colleagues wrote, "First, we predicted that both forms of self-blame would be associated with distress shortly after diagnosis (i.e., at 4 months). Second, we predicted that only characterological self-blame would be related to distress at 7 and...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-12-22)
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