Sentences with phrase «as psychological distance»

Secondary school represents a long geographical as well as psychological distance for girls...» It adds a lack of female teachers and a reluctance of qualified educators to work in remote schools means there are few female role models.

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Recent conversations about mental health in the university — depression, loneliness, suicide — have largely flailed to consider in any holistic way the distance imposed on families within such systems, as life - partners live apart for months and often years at a time, with one spouse shouldering the burden of childcare alone while the other manages the psychological pain of loneliness and distance from the children and partner.

If this forebrain - midbrain threat circuit is mediated by both geographical - temporal and psychological distance, as predicted by theorists (4, 5), we would then expect subject - specific differences in psychological indices of threat to be correlated with PAG activity.

It's a distance that seems as psychological as it is physical, as if the artist has found a way to step back from the world as a way of stepping into it.

Fu responds to experiences and perceptions unique to densely populated urban settings, such as a sense of crowded loneliness and the resulting psychological distance between people in close physical proximity.

According to scholars of attachment theory, the insecurity and distance of these children with their caregivers since childhood is one the factors which are able to predict psychological well - being problems such as anxiety, depression, hyperactivity and behaviour disorders [17].

However, as zebras don't usually worry about social and psychological stressors (like in - laws, the Middle East, dress sizes, or the stock market), and focus solely on physical stressors (like lions and twigs snapping suspiciously in the distance), they don't suffer the same chronic activation of stress response we do.

Control can be wielded only from a psychological distance... [and] an honest appraisal of any technology, or of progress in general, requires a sensitivity to what's lost as well as what's gained.

Thus, we define adolescence as «the developmental period during which physical (e.g. growth spurt, change in body mass, sexual maturation), psychological (e.g. affective intensity and lability, romantic and idealistic aspirations, sense of invulnerability, abstract thinking), and social (e.g. distancing from adults and children, primacy of peer relationships, romantic involvement) milestones are being reached» (Ernst et al. 2006, p. 2).

Psychological detachment was measured with the Dutch translation (Geurts et al., 2009) of the four - item Recovery Experience Scale of Sonnentag and Fritz (2007b), including items such as «After work, I could distance myself from my work.»