Trait Negative Affect Relates to Prior-Week Symptoms, But Not to Reports of Illness Episodes, Illness Symptoms, and Care Seeking Among Older Persons

Mora, Pablo A.; Robitaille, Chantal; Leventhal, Howard; Swigar, Mary E.; Leventhal, Elaine A.

doi:10.1097/00006842-200205000-00007

Cited by 43 publications

(36 citation statements)

References 37 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…They begin to evaluate the environment for the source of the threat and engage in information-seeking and supportseeking behaviors, as well as in behaviors that consciously or unconsciously serve to ameliorate the unpleasant experience of anxiety (51). In this view, a man with relatively high trait anxiety will be more attentive to information relating to health threats, will likely be more sensitive to physical symptoms, may thus go to the doctor more regularly, and may thus screen more frequently (93). The current study did not examine the effect of sources of care and future studies should carefully control the relevant variables to test these explanatory possibilities.…”

Section: Subpopulation Differences In Prostate Cancer Screeningmentioning

confidence: 86%

Prostate Cancer Screening Behavior in Men from Seven Ethnic Groups: the Fear Factor

Consedine

Morgenstern²,

Kudadjie-Gyamfi

et al. 2006

Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers &Amp; Prevention

108

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Rates of prostate cancer screening are known to vary among the major ethnic groups. However, likely variations in screening behavior among ethnic subpopulations and the likely role of psychological characteristics remain understudied. We examined differences in prostate cancer screening among samples of 44 men from each of seven ethnic groups (N = 308; U.S.-born European Americans, U.S.-born African Americans, men from the English-speaking Caribbean, Haitians, Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, and Eastern Europeans) and the associations among trait fear, emotion regulatory characteristics, and screening. As expected, there were differences in the frequency of both digital rectal exam (DRE) and prostate-specific antigen (PSA) tests among the groups, even when demographic factors and access were controlled. Haitian men reported fewer DRE and PSA tests than either U.S.-born European American or Dominican men, and immigrant Eastern European men reported fewer tests than U.S.-born European Americans; consistent with prior research, U.S.-born African Americans differed from U.S.-born European Americans for DRE but not PSA frequency. Second, the addition of trait fear significantly improved model fit, as did the inclusion of a quadratic, inverted U, trait fear term, even where demographics, access, and ethnicity were controlled. Trait fear did not interact with ethnicity, suggesting its effect may operate equally across groups, and adding patterns of information processing and emotion regulation to the model did not improve model fit. Overall, our data suggest that fear is among the key psychological determinants of male screening behavior and would be usefully considered in models designed to increase male screening frequency. (Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2006;15(2):228 -37) Prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death among American men (1); there are striking ethnic differences in both its incidence and mortality (2). Compared with both European American (172.9 of 100,000) and Hispanic men (127.6 of 100,000), African American men (275.3 of 100,000) have the highest incidence of prostate cancer in the United States (3) and more than twice the mortality rate of European Americans (2). Conversely, although the incidence rates between 1995 and 1999 were f20% lower among Hispanic men, prostate cancer remains the most commonly diagnosed cancer and the second leading cause of cancer death within this group (4).Scientists know almost nothing about prostate cancer in Caribbean subpopulations. Research has, however, indicated that Jamaican men (who are often classified as ''African American'') may have an incidence rate that exceeds that of U.S.-born African Americans. One study of 2,484 men in Trinidad and Tobago, a major source of English-speaking Caribbean immigrants to the United States, suggested that the rate of prostate cancer may be as high as 10% (5), with a high number of abnormal screening findings (6). Research in Kingston, Jamaica likewise suggests that the incidence may be as high as 304...

show abstract

Section: Subpopulation Differences In Prostate Cancer Screeningmentioning

confidence: 86%

Prostate Cancer Screening Behavior in Men from Seven Ethnic Groups: the Fear Factor

Consedine

Morgenstern²,

Kudadjie-Gyamfi

et al. 2006

Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers &Amp; Prevention

108

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Neuroticism may be seen as a marker for such a negative reporting style as it is defined as the tendency to experience distressing emotions. However, neuroticism is associated with reporting current symptoms but not illness episodes, suggesting that it does more than bias self-reports [8]. Indeed, a substantial proportion of the overall association between neuroticism with somatic morbidity is direct and unlikely to be mediated by manifest psychiatric ill health or result from reporting bias [3,4].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It remains possible that the association of neuroticism with symptoms of the psychosomatic type is relatively strong because a lower proportion of the variance is explained by an external cause-e.g., viruses-which might play a more prominent role in symptoms of the infectious/allergic type. Alternatively, psychosomatic symptoms may be regarded as more chronic compared to infectious symptoms, and this may also influence the amount of variance explained by neuroticism [8].…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

The association between neuroticism and self-reported common somatic symptoms in a population cohort

Rosmalen

Neeleman

Gans

et al. 2007

Journal of Psychosomatic Research

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The association between neuroticism and self-reported common somatic symptoms in a population cohort Rosmalen, Judith G. M.; Neeleman, Jan; Gans, Reinold O. B.; de Jonge, Peter Take-down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. AbstractObjective: To test the hypotheses that (1) neuroticism is associated with self-reported somatic symptoms; (2) this association is especially found with regard to psychosomatic symptoms; and (3) it is not solemnly explained by somatic reflections of psychological distress. Methods: We studied the crosssectional association between neuroticism (as measured by EPQ-RSS-N), psychological distress (as measured by GHQ-12 sum score), and the occurrence of 22 common somatic symptoms by linear and logistic regression analyses in a population cohort of 6894 participants. Results: Neuroticism is more strongly associated with the total number of somatic symptoms reported (b=.32) than GHQ-12 sum score (b=.15) and well-established risk markers such as gender (b=.11) and age (b=.04). Neuroticism was associated with all symptoms in individual logistic regressions controlled for age, gender, and psychological distress. Neuroticism is significantly more strongly related to psychosomatic symptoms (b=.36) than to infectious/allergic symptoms (b=.28). Conclusion: In a large, population-based cohort, we confirmed that neuroticism is associated with self-reported somatic symptoms. The associations were not attributable to somatic reflections of psychological distress associated with neuroticism and were relatively strong with respect to psychosomatic symptoms. Future studies should include both objective and subjective measures of health to study the mechanisms that connect neuroticism and ill health. D

show abstract

“…The PANAS has been used in a variety of studies, with positive affect being shown to be related to more ''healthy'' conditions, whereas negative affect is typically associated with ''unhealthy'' conditions. [37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48] For example, negative affect has been shown to be related to depression, 31,46 cancer-related symptoms, 48 arthritis, 49 chronic pain, 47,50 and common health complaints. 41,51 Given the frequency of dry eye problems in contact lens wearers, with no clear mechanism predictive of an etiology, it is hypothesized that negative affect could be related to dry eye in this cohort.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Relation Between Mood and Self-Reported Dry Eye in Contact Lens Wearers

Nichols

Mitchell²,

Curbow³

2006

Cornea

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

Trait Negative Affect Relates to Prior-Week Symptoms, But Not to Reports of Illness Episodes, Illness Symptoms, and Care Seeking Among Older Persons

Cited by 43 publications

References 37 publications

Prostate Cancer Screening Behavior in Men from Seven Ethnic Groups: the Fear Factor

Prostate Cancer Screening Behavior in Men from Seven Ethnic Groups: the Fear Factor

The association between neuroticism and self-reported common somatic symptoms in a population cohort

Relation Between Mood and Self-Reported Dry Eye in Contact Lens Wearers

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About