Marital status, marital satisfaction, and support processes among women at high risk for breast cancer
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Husbands are key influences on women's distress levels and significant sources of cancer-specific support, according to research into marital status, psychological distress and social support processes among women at high risk for ovarian and breast cancer who were set to undergo genetic testing. Unsupportive behaviour by the husband was found to be the only independent link between social support processes and distress, regardless of other significant bivariate relations between support and distress. This research may not have broad implications because the participants were self-selected members of a hereditary cancer registry.
Publication Name: Journal of Family Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0893-3200
Year: 1999
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Expressed emotion in families of clinically referred and nonreferred children: toward a further understanding of the expressed emotion index
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The level of expressed emotion (EE) in parents is significantly higher for the families of children clinically referred for mental health treatment than in families of nonreferred children. A high level of EE in itself is unable to predict the occurrence of heightened psychological disturbance in children or their families. Fifty three percent of the nonclinical families in one study had high EE, but showed less problematic behavior than the high EE clinical families. High EE along with overall family dysfunction increases the risk for children.
Publication Name: Journal of Family Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0893-3200
Year: 1996
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Men's work and family lives in India: the daily organization of time and emotion
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One hundred middle-class men of Northern India and their daily patterns of work and family life were examined. The authors, arguing that Indian men have strong traditional family values, maintain the men reported that they spent large amounts of time with their children and thinking about their families, and men's working emotions did not influence their time spent with the family in the evenings.
Publication Name: Journal of Family Psychology
Subject: Psychology and mental health
ISSN: 0893-3200
Year: 2001
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