Not exact matches
The psychosocial outcome receiving the most attention from researchers is problem behaviour, with most studies finding perceived negative reactivity in infancy to predict problem behaviour in childhood33, 34 and adolescent.35 Specifically, infants prone to
high levels of fear, frustration, and sadness, as well as difficulty recovering from
such distress, were found to be at increased risk for internalizing and externalizing problem behaviours according to parental and / or teacher report.
Functional expectations
of caregivers are often huge with multiple responsibilities
such as household chores, emotional support, providing transportation and symptom management.4 As cancer survivorship grows, from 50 % in the 70s, to 54 % between 1983 and 1985, to 65 % in 2009, the illness may become a chronic disease, further stressing caregivers with a cumulative and unrelenting burden
of care and responsibility.5 Psychological morbidity or psychiatric symptomatology among cancer caregivers is
high.6, 7
Levels of distress have also been shown to be
higher than those reported by patients themselves.8
Whether
such talk represents a clear intention
of suicide or is a way
of expressing feelings
of depression, it indicates a
high level of distress that requires attention.
Such thoughts and talk indicates a
high level of distress that requires attention.
We predicted that
such deficits would be particularly marked for sadness and fear, given previous research showing disproportionate impairments in the processing
of distress cues in those with
high levels of CU traits (Dadds et al. 2006; Marsh and Blair 2008; Short et al. 2016).
In addition, dispositional optimism fully mediated
distress among individuals who had experienced traumatic events
such as rape, assault, and fire; participants with
higher levels of optimism had lower
levels of distress.
Second, we also expect affective empathy to be associated with spousal support provision,
such that when the provider experiences affective empathy (i.e., empathic concern, personal
distress), the provider will offer
higher levels of positive support (i.e., more emotional and instrumental support) and lower
levels of negative forms
of support (Hypothesis 2).