Abstract
This study examined premorbid personality correlates of colon cancer and stage of presentation of colon cancer to health care providers. Sixty-one male veterans who completed the MMPI between 1947 and 1975 and were then diagnosed with colon cancer between 1977 and 1988 were matched with control patients. A 21-factor solution of the MMPI [1] was used to seek potential personality differences between colon cancer cases and their controls in terms of presence of colon cancer and stage of presentation for this disease. A stepwise conditional regression analysis found significant differences between the colon cancer and control groups on the Aggressive Hostility variable (p
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 1031-1039 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Journal of Psychosomatic Research |
Volume | 39 |
Issue number | 8 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Nov 1995 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Clinical Psychology
- Psychiatry and Mental health