This qualitative study aimed to identify the feelings patients presented when confronted with the news about the need to undergo cardiac surgery and, later, during the preoperative period. Twenty male patients were interviewed. The case study methodology was adopted and the analysis process resulted in two theme categories: Feelings of apprehension (fear, worry, anxiety, suspicion and jittery) ...

Psychopathy is characterized by extensive emotional impairments. However, the current empirical literature on empathy and alexithymia in psychopathy provides heterogeneous results. Random-effects models were performed studies examining association between Interpersonal Reactivity Index as well Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20. In total, 72 articles providing 716 effect sizes representing 15,016 par...

This study examined differences in minority status stress, impostor feelings, and mental health in a sample of 240 ethnic minority college students. African Americans reported higher minority status stress than Asian Americans and Latino/a Americans, whereas Asian Americans reported higher impostor feelings. Minority status stress and impostor feelings were examined as predictors of mental heal...

The authors investigated the effect of chronic exercise on feelings of energy and fatigue using meta-analytic techniques. Chronic exercise increased feelings of energy and lessened feelings of fatigue compared with control conditions by a mean effect delta of 0.37. The effect varied according to the presence or absence of a placebo control or whether chronic exercise was completed alone or in c...

In the social sciences, feelings are referred to as “affect,” and there are many confusions between the terms “emotions,” “feelings,” and “affect.” One reason for this is that humans experience a wide range of feelings – such as being tired, bored, sleepy, excited, hungry, angry, afraid, sad, ashamed, proud, embarrassed, happy, or jealous, and much of it is called “emotion.” Indeed, feelings ar...