CoChat
Sign Up
Cited by 191Cancer, Stress, Anesthesia, and Immune ResponsePsychosomatic Disorders and Their TreatmentsCancer survivorship and care

Emotional expression in cancer onset and progression

Gross, James·1989·Social Science & Medicine
DOI 10.1016/0277-9536(89)90342-0
Open this paper in CoChat — free account

Abstract

Despite the intensive biomedical research in oncology since World War II, recent studies show a steady increase in age-adjusted mortality for all kinds of cancer. This findings gives impetus to the efforts of researchers who have adopted the biopsychosocial model. Systematic research using such a model has shown several psychosocial factors to be associated with cancer onset and progression, and Temoshok has recently suggested a theoretical model which unifies these findings. In this paper, I consider the evidence that one of these psychosocial factors, emotional expression, may be directly involved in cancer onset and progression. I review 18 relevant studies, discuss how one might operationalize the term 'emotional expression', and make 12 suggestions for future research.

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1016/0277-9536(89)90342-0

Cites

74 of 74 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Claims the paper makes

This paper’s full text isn’t openly available, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Related

Authors
Gross, J.
Affiliations
University of California, Berkeley (US)
Corresponding author
Gross, James
ORCID
Gross, James
Venue
Social Science & Medicine
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
1989-01
Volume
28
Issue
12
Pages
1239-1248
ISSN
0277-9536 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/0277-9536(89)90342-0
OpenAlex
W2067221825
Cited by
191
References
74
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 6 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 8
FWCI
1.47
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations
  • Social Science & Medicine (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Cancer, Stress, Anesthesia, and Immune Response
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cancer survivorship and care
Keywords
emotional expression, cancer onset, tumor progression, psychosocial factors, biopsychosocial model, cancer mortality, psychosocial stress
MeSH terms
Adaptation, Psychological, Anger, Denial, Psychological, Emotions, Humans, Neoplasms, Personality, Repression, Psychology, Research

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review