Publications by authors named "Catherine Chambliss"

Background: Invasive Breast Cancer (IBC) risk estimates continue to be based on data collated from cancer registries, i.e., retrospective research that excludes disease-free women.

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This replication examined the link between schadenfreude (i.e., pleasure from another's misfortune), freudenfreude (i.

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Background: Earlier studies of breast cancer, screening mammography, and mortality reduction may have inflated lifetime and long-term risk estimates for invasive breast cancer due to limitations in their data collection methods and interpretation.

Objective: To estimate the percentage of asymptomatic peri/postmenopausal women who will be diagnosed with a first invasive breast cancer over their next 25 years of life.

Methods: A systematic review identified peer-reviewed published studies that: 1) enrolled no study participants with a history of invasive breast cancer; 2) specified the number of women enrolled; 3) reported the number of women diagnosed with a first invasive breast cancer; 4) did not overcount [count a woman multiple times]; and, 5) defined the length of follow-up.

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The Freudenfreude and Schadenfreude Test (FAST) had moderate test-retest reliability in an undergraduate sample. Freudenfreude scores were lower and Schadenfreude scores were higher among mildly depressed than nondepressed students. Distinctive reactions to personal success and failure were associated with depression.

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Research on the correlates of maternal employment has yielded inconsistent results. In this study, 79 male and 120 female undergraduates with mothers who had been employed from the students' infancy through their adolescence scored higher on the Beck Depression Inventory-II than those whose mothers had not been employed. This relationship between children's depressive symptoms and mothers' employment history was not evident among young adults whose mothers' employment was perceived to be financially unnecessary.

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A questionnaire rating the descriptions of a hypothetical student smoker, a former smoker, and a nonsmoker, as well as personal smoking habits, was administered to 35 high school, 34 college, and 24 professional school faculty members. Respondents rated smokers more negatively than nonsmokers or former smokers. Paired-sample t tests indicated that smokers were rated as less intelligent, independent, conscientious, and ambitious and as having poorer judgment and being more hostile than the nonsmoking student.

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A questionnaire assessing perceptions of hypothetical male and female current smokers, a former smoker, and a nonsmoker, as well as personal smoking habits, was administered to 108 suburban high school and 115 college students. Both smokers and nonsmokers held a more negative view of smokers than nonsmokers; mean character ratings of former smokers fell in between. Paired-sample t tests indicated that smokers were viewed as less intelligent, creative, independent, conscientious, ambitious, and considerate, as having poorer judgment, and as more hostile than their nonsmoking counterparts.

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