Attachment insecurities and under‐commitment in distressed couples: The role of positive and negative partner behaviors
Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 18-35, January 2023.
anxiety
Is it really that important to you? How the topics of conflict and emotional reactions to conflicts explain the associations between attachment insecurities and relationship satisfaction
Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 260-279, January 2023.
Klimawandel und psychische Gesundheit. Positionspapier einer Task-Force der DGPPN
Zusammenfassung
Der Klimawandel und die damit häufiger auftretenden Extremwetterereignisse wirken sich direkt negativ auf die psychische Gesundheit aus. Naturkatastrophen gehen insbesondere mit einem Anstieg von Depressionen, Angst- und Traumafolgestörungen einher. Indirekte Folgen des Klimawandels wie Nahrungsmittelknappheit, ökonomische Krisen, gewaltvolle Konflikte und unfreiwillige Migration stellen zusätzlich massive psychische Risiko- und Belastungsfaktoren dar. Klimaangst und Solastalgie, die Trauer um verlorenen Lebensraum, sind neue psychische Syndrome angesichts der existenziellen Bedrohung durch die Klimakrise. Eine nachhaltige Psychiatrie muss sich dementsprechend auf steigenden und veränderten Bedarf einstellen. Psychiatrische Behandlungsprinzipien müssen die Prävention stärker in den Blick nehmen, um das Versorgungssystem insgesamt zu entlasten. Ressourcenverschwendung und CO2-Ausstoß im psychiatrischen Behandlungsablauf sowie Infrastruktur müssen wahrgenommen und verhindert werden. Psychiatrische Aus‑, Fort- und Weiterbildungskonzepte sollen um die Thematik des Klimawandels erweitert werden, um Fachkräfte, Betroffene und Öffentlichkeit umfassend zu informieren, zu sensibilisieren und zu klimafreundlichem und gesundheitsförderlichem Verhalten anzuregen. Die Auswirkungen des Klimawandels auf die psychische Gesundheit müssen tiefergehend erforscht werden. Die DGPPN wird Förderer und strebt die Klimaneutralität bis 2030 an. Sie hat sich zu klimaschonenden und energiesparenden Maßnahmen im Bereich der Finanzwirtschaft, in Bezug auf den DGPPN-Kongress sowie die DGPPN-Geschäftsstelle verpflichtet.
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Ugandan MPs approve anti-gay law with death penalty provisions
The harsh new law, which will turn the country’s entire LGBTQ community into fugitives in fear for their lives, was approved by an almost unanimous vote in the Ugandan parliament
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Befriending my Inner Critic Unlocked my Writing
A key aspect of my work involves helping people create and sustain positive changes in their lives. Imagine my consternation when I found myself stuck for years concerning an action I really wanted to take in my own life: writing and sharing my writing consistently. Deploying every tool I had at my disposal, I couldn’t
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Psychometric properties of the generalized anxiety disorder-7 (GAD-7) in a sample of workers
To evaluate the psychometric properties of the GAD-7 by obtaining evidence of internal structure (dimensionality, precision and differential functioning of items) and association with external variables. … The GAD-7 is a psychometrically robust tool for detecting individual variability in symptoms of anxiety in workers.
Overbenefitting, underbenefitting, and balanced: Different effort–reward profiles and their relationship with employee well-being, mental health, and job attitudes among young employees
We aimed to identify different, both balanced and imbalanced, effort–reward profiles and their relations to several indicators of employee well-being (work engagement, job satisfaction, job boredom, and burnout), mental health (positive functioning, life satisfaction, anxiety, and depression symptoms), and job attitudes (organizational identification and turnover intention). We examined data drawn randomly from Finnish population (n = 1,357) of young adults (23–34 years of age) collected in the summer of 2021 with quantitative methods. Latent profile analysis revealed three emerging groups in the data characterized by different combinations of efforts and rewards: underbenefitting (16%, high effort/low reward), overbenefitting (34%, low effort/high reward), and balanced employees (50%, same levels of efforts and rewards). Underbenefitting employees reported poorest employee well-being and mental health, and more negative job attitudes. In general, balanced employees fared slightly better than overbenefitting employees. Balanced employees experienced higher work engagement, life satisfaction, and less depression symptoms. The findings highlight the importance of balancing work efforts with sufficient rewards so that neither outweighs the other. This study suggests that the current effort–reward model would benefit from conceptualizing the previously ignored perspective of overbenefitting state and from considering professional development as one of the essential rewards at work.
The effects of different surgical approaches on the psychological status, medical coping mode and quality of life of patients with lung cancer
ObjectiveThis study aimed to compare the effects of robot-assisted thoracic surgery (RATS), video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS), and thoracotomy on the psychological status, medical coping mode, and quality of life of patients with lung cancer.MethodsA total of 158 patients with lung cancer were selected from the thoracic surgery center of a third-grade hospital in Hunan Province, China, from September to November 2020. The Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS), Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS), Medical Coping Modes Questionnaire (MCMQ), and Medical Outcomes Study (MOS) 36-item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) were used to assess the effects of the surgical approaches on the study parameters before and 48–96 h after surgery. The t-test and analysis of variance were used to analyze the data.ResultsThe results revealed that the patients’ depression increased, their short-term quality of life decreased, and they tended to adopt a positive coping mode after surgery (p
What’s to fear about warming oceans? Flesh-eating bacteria
Potentially deadly infections from a type of flesh-eating bacteria could significantly increase in the decades ahead as a result of climate change.
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