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Emotional expression in cancer onset and progression
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.
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“In addition, new hypotheses involving emotion regulation have emerged, suggesting that emotion inhibition may exacerbate minor ailments (Pennebaker, 1990) and that inexpressiveness may accelerate cancer progression (Fawzy et al., 1993; Gross, 1989; Spiegel, Bloom, Kraemer, & Gottheil, 1989).”
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- 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)
- OpenAlex
- W2067221825
- Cited by
- 191
- References
- 74
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 1.47
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Social Science & Medicine (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cancer Research › 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
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