BACKGROUND Beliefs surrounding pain during childbirth has biblical foundations that contribute to labour pain being viewed as a natural phenomenon. Contemporary health care promotes evidence-based labour pain management but the faith of the midwife may influence her midwifery practice regarding labour pain management. Therefore this study sought to gain in-depth insight into the experiences and...

OBJECTIVES We compared the magnitude and direction of associations between forgiveness and pain, mental and physical health, quality of life, and anger in a sample of fibromyalgia syndrome (FM) participants and healthy controls. In addition, we compared FM and controls on mean levels of these variables. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 173 individuals with FM and 81 controls completed this st...

OBJECTIVE This study examines how emotion regulation deficits in the area of anger arousal and reactivity are associated with child abuse potential in mothers with substance use and depressive disorders in order to identify targeted areas for prevention and treatment. METHODS A sample of 152 urban mothers was interviewed on measures of substance use, diagnosis of depression, anger arousal and...

The current study examined three well-established risk factors for intimate partner aggression (IPA) within Finkel and Eckhardt's I(3) model, including two impellance factors-trait anger and childhood physical abuse history-and the disinhibiting factor of alcohol consumption. Participants were 236 male and female college students in a committed heterosexual dating relationship who completed a b...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To test the impact of patient smoking behavior on family caregiver judgments of responsibility, emotions, empathic responses, and helping behavior. DESIGN Structural equation modeling. SETTING Five oncology outpatient settings in Canada. SAMPLE 304 dyads consisting of patients with lung cancer and their primary caregivers. METHODS Self-report questionnaires, abstracte...

results there was significant reduction in anger symptoms of drug-dependent individuals after gross model based emotion regulation training (ert) (p < 0.001). moreover, the effectiveness of the training on anger was persistent in the follow-up period. conclusions symptoms of anger in drug-dependent individuals of this study were reduced by gross model-based emotion regulation strategies trainin...

BACKGROUND Depression is a broad and heterogeneous diagnostic grouping, central to which is depressed mood or inability to enjoy most activities. Depressive symptoms are frequently accompanied by conduct problems stemming from anger. It is very important to know the interrelation of these emotions very well to be able to help adolescents to manage them more easily. The main aim of this article ...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To examine the psychometric properties of the Image of God Scale (IGS) in a clinical population. DESIGN Descriptive, cross-sectional. SETTING University and community oncology practices in the southeastern United States. SAMPLE 123 breast cancer survivors no more than two years from completion of treatment. METHODS Scale reliability was determined with the coefficient...