Gender Differences in Stress-Related Variables: The Influence of Worry-DispositionSummary: Although on average women report more distress, stress and bodily complaints than men, their higher life-expectancy objectively points to better health. The ...
Family as resource, focus, and context of therapeutic interventionsAbstract. The family plays an important role in physical and mental health. Family relationships can cause or exacerbate mental-health problems, but ...
Objective: To investigate helpful and stressful factors in coping with COPD of patients and their partners. Method: Nine COPD patients and their partners (9 couples) were interviewed. All interviews were audio taped and later transcribed and analysed ...
Delirium Management in Palliative CareAbstract. Delirium is one of the most common neuropsychiatric complications in patients with advanced incurable disease. End-of-life delirium is common but is often overlooked, ...
Early Detection of Psychological Distress in Oncology Care. Empirical Assessment of the Distress ScaleAbstract: The Distress Scale (DS) is a single-item instrument in the form of a 10-point Likert scale in two variants for the ...
Fetal programming: The influence of prenatal maternal distress on infant development and temperamentAccording to the concept of fetal programming, prenatal distress has long-lasting consequences on the health of the offspring later in life. The ...
Health behaviors of skin cancer patients in melanoma follow-up careAbstract. Malignant melanoma is the most common type of cancer in middle-aged adults. This skin cancer is known to have a particularly high rate of cure during the early stages of the ...
Background: A substantial proportion of therapists experience the loss of a patient to suicide at some point during their professional life. Aims: To assess (1) the impact of a patient’s suicide on therapists distress and well-being over time, (2) which ...
Abstract.Background: In order to respond to crises with appropriate intervention, crisis workers are required to manage their own needs as well as the needs of those they respond to. Aims: A systematic review of ...
Abstract.Background: The differences in emotional reactions toward media reports of celebrity suicides between distressed and non-distressed individuals have rarely been explored. Aim: We aimed to explore ...
Conscious appraisals of stress, or stress states, are an important aspect of human performance. This article presents evidence supporting the validity and measurement characteristics of a short multidimensional self-report measure of stress state, the ...
The objective of our study was to systematically review research evidence for relationships between self-efficacy beliefs and psychological as well as somatic outcomes of collective traumatic events. Twenty-seven studies enrolling adult and adolescent ...
Abstract. While emotional intelligence is generally associated with positive outcomes, little is known about the specific contribution of its intra- and interpersonal dimensions, even less about their interaction. By taking a variable that a priori ...
Abstract. The current study focuses on a sample of low- to middle-income school-age Latina girls and their parents and examines how children’s distress proneness interacts with parental empathic accuracy ...
Abstract. This study aims to investigate the longitudinal relationships between psychological variables and follow-up levels of fatigue, work and social adjustment, and psychological distress in people with rheumatic diseases. The study is ...
Thousands of orphaned survivors of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide against the Tutsi were not only exposed to extraordinarily severe forms of violence, but many of these children took on the responsibility of caring and ...