Abstract
This qualitative study examined fatalistic beliefs and cancer causal attributions among people without cancer. Participants were 30 Israeli women and men aged 51–70 from diverse sociocultural backgrounds who participated in four focus groups. Three main themes emerged, referring to the variability in fatalistic beliefs of cancer occurrence and cancer outcome, the duality in attributing causality to divine providence and mere luck or chance, and the connection between distinct fatalistic beliefs and health behaviors. Data analysis enabled an expansion of the understanding of cancer fatalism as a multidimensional structure, whereby interactions between causality attribution and different fatalistic beliefs are related to prevention and screening behaviors.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 2033-2049 |
Number of pages | 17 |
Journal | Journal of Religion and Health |
Volume | 62 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jun 2023 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
Keywords
- Cancer fatalism
- Causal attributions of cancer
- Focus groups
- Israel
- Qualitative research
- Screening tests
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Nursing
- Religious studies