Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate psychological factors influencing the incidence of breast cancer in women. Methods: Basic beliefs, coping strategies, hardiness, subjective control, personal helplessness and independence were studied in 184 women, of which 80 women diagnosed with breast cancer, 104 women without a cancer diagnosis. All study participants completed psychodiagnostic methods and sociodemographic questionnaires. First, we analyzed differences in the psychological characteristics of women depending on the presence of an oncological diagnosis (F - Fisher’s test). Second, we conducted factor analysis (principal component analysis with Varimax with Kaiser Normalization) to obtain psychological risk factors for breast cancer in women. Results: Distinctive psychological characteristics of women with breast cancer have been discovered. Women with breast cancer underestimate their worth and importance (p=0.021), as well as their luck (p=0.006) and the ability to control events in their lives (p=0.019). Women with breast cancer are very independent (arrogance) (p=0.000), rarely use confrontation-type coping (p=0.05), positive reappraisal (p=0.05), and planful problem-solving (p=0.035). Women diagnosed with breast cancer have an external locus of control (p=0.002), and are low hardiness (p=0.029). The listed features that distinguish women with breast cancer from cancer-free women were considered as probabilistic psychological risk factors for breast cancer. As a result of factor analysis, a model was obtained that included psychological factors associated with breast cancer in women: Independence (arrogance) (28.88% of variance), Belief system (24.83% of variance), Maladaptive coping (20.17% of variance). Conclusions: Extreme independence, beliefs about one’s failure, insignificance and inability to control life, as well as maladaptive coping are probabilistic psychological risk factors for breast cancer among Russian women.
Ponomareva, I., Pakhomova, Y., & Tsiring, D. (2023). Subjective and Personal Characteristics of Women with Breast Cancer: A Factorial Model of Disease Risks and the Course of Disease. Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention, 24(11), 3931-3938. doi: 10.31557/APJCP.2023.24.11.3931
MLA
Irina Vladimirovna Ponomareva; Yana N Pakhomova; Diana A Tsiring. "Subjective and Personal Characteristics of Women with Breast Cancer: A Factorial Model of Disease Risks and the Course of Disease". Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention, 24, 11, 2023, 3931-3938. doi: 10.31557/APJCP.2023.24.11.3931
HARVARD
Ponomareva, I., Pakhomova, Y., Tsiring, D. (2023). 'Subjective and Personal Characteristics of Women with Breast Cancer: A Factorial Model of Disease Risks and the Course of Disease', Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention, 24(11), pp. 3931-3938. doi: 10.31557/APJCP.2023.24.11.3931
VANCOUVER
Ponomareva, I., Pakhomova, Y., Tsiring, D. Subjective and Personal Characteristics of Women with Breast Cancer: A Factorial Model of Disease Risks and the Course of Disease. Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention, 2023; 24(11): 3931-3938. doi: 10.31557/APJCP.2023.24.11.3931
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