Psychology: Research and Review
Cause | Category | Minimum | Maximum | Mean | SD |
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Stress or worry | Psychological Attribution | 1 | 5 | 3.98 | 1.124 |
Emotional condition | Psychological Attribution | 1 | 5 | 3.57 | 1.307 |
Family problems or worries | Psychological Attribution | 1 | 5 | 3.49 | 1.394 |
Alterations in the body’s defenses | Biological Risk Factor | 1 | 5 | 3.48 | 1.289 |
Hereditary factors | Biological Risk Factor | 1 | 5 | 3.29 | 1.554 |
My personal behavior | Behavioral Risk Factor | 1 | 5 | 3.22 | 1.346 |
Fate or Bad luck | Bad luck/Fate | 1 | 5 | 3.01 | 1.439 |
My way of being (personality) | Psychological Attribution | 1 | 5 | 2.96 | 1.339 |
Overwork | Work-related Cause | 1 | 5 | 2.91 | 1.452 |
Negative mental attitude | Psychological Attribution | 1 | 5 | 2.78 | 1.347 |
Little medical care in the past | Lack of Access to Resources | 1 | 5 | 2.75 | 1.472 |
Eating habits | Behavioral Risk Factor | 1 | 5 | 2.71 | 1.374 |
Environmental Pollution | Chemicals | 1 | 5 | 2.61 | 1.314 |
Smoking | Behavioral Risk Factor | 1 | 5 | 2.46 | 1.483 |
Aging | Biological Risk Factor | 1 | 5 | 2.43 | 1.252 |
Overweight | Biological Risk Factor | 1 | 5 | 2.39 | 1.328 |
Microbe or virus | Biological Risk Factor | 1 | 5 | 2.24 | 1.094 |
Accident or injury | Biological Risk Factor | 1 | 5 | 2.01 | 1.038 |