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The relationship between personality and career choice
Published in Janet Thomas, Understanding and Supporting Professional Carers, 2021
At the same time, a good ‘bedside manner’, or the ability to empathise and put patients at ease, is a valued attribute of doctors. Many are able to achieve this, but there is a significant minority who remain inappropriately aloof, distant and emotionally detached from their patients. When emotional detachment spreads into their own personal life, it may lead to marital and relationship breakdown.9
Emotional Detachment and Patients’ Responsibilities
Published in Eldo E. Frezza, The Moral Distress Syndrome Affecting Physicians, 2020
A person who can effectively utilize emotional detachment can set evident boundaries. Be it in social situations, during family strife, or in their professional discernment, these people earn great respect for their ability to remain calm and make clear decisions, all the while respecting the emotions of others. For the majority of people, emotional detachment is a far cry from reality. Choosing not to engage when emotions run high seems impossible to most people. Unfortunately, the news media, entertainment sources, politics, and even religious leaders can feed this disempowering lie. Emotional detachment includes empathy. Without empathy, emotional detachment would be cruel. There is a common myth that compassion requires vulnerability. It is only through honest emotional detachment that one can be of service with empathy.
Divorce Rate Among Physicians
Published in Eldo E. Frezza, Medical Ethics, 2018
On the emotional detachment page on Wikipedia,3 I like the way Wikipedia reported this issue: Emotional detachment often arises from psychological trauma and is a component of many anxieties and stress disorders. The person, while physically present, moves elsewhere in their mind, and in a sense is “not entirely present,” making them sometimes appear preoccupied.Thus, such detachment is often not as outwardly visible as other psychiatric symptoms; people with this problem often have emotional systems that are in overdrive. They may have a hard time being a loving family member.They may avoid activities, places, and people associated with any traumatic events they have experienced. The dissociation can also lead to lack of attention and, hence, to memory problems and in extreme cases, amnesia.Divorce is the end of the road.
‘No longer invincible’: the impact of involuntary childlessness on older men
Published in Physical Therapy Reviews, 2021
Childlessness is found in every society and cuts across all classifications. Childless people particularly women, report a range of reactions to their non-parental status from open hostility to sympathy. Many are accused of selfishness for having ‘chosen’ not to be parents [40]. However, there are many influences on why a person who wanted or expected to be a parent does not become one: bereavement, economics, education level, relationship issues, sexuality, and upbringing. The age of first sexual relationship, the longevity of the relationship and the timing of relationship formation and cessation are all circumstances that effect fertility outcomes. Involuntary childless men have to negotiate socio-cultural expectations of masculinity typically virility acknowledged via provider/protector roles. Unfortunately these often include emotional detachment, denial of emotions, fear of intimacy and emotional vulnerability [131], risk taking, aggressiveness, objectivity and control. [132]. However, Wong and Rochlen [133] argued that men have the same emotional experience as women but are socialized to perceive the expression of emotions as a weakness. In addition to having a lack of resources to express feelings, male emotional inexpressiveness has become an embedded ideal [98].
The Validity of the Personality Assessment Inventory—Adolescent in Assessing Callous-Unemotional Traits in At-Risk Adolescents
Published in Journal of Personality Assessment, 2021
Olivia C. Preston, Christopher T. A. Gillen, Joye C. Anestis, Nora E. Charles, Christopher T. Barry
See Table 3 for zero-order correlations between PAI-A and ICU variables in both samples. Consistent with hypotheses, ANT and AGG evidenced moderate to large-sized positive relations to ICU total, whereas WRM had large-sized, negative relationships. Moreover, all ANT and AGG subscales had positive associations with ICU total. Contrary to expectations, DOM was negligibly related to ICU total. Expectations regarding PAI-A scales assessing emotional detachment and social disinterest were partially confirmed. NON and SCZ-S exhibited a large-sized, positive relationship with ICU total, although BOR-A, which assesses affective lability, exhibited an unexpected positive association. Contrary to expectations, BOR-N was negligibly related to ICU total. Inconsistent with expectations, DEP had significant moderate-sized positive relations and ANX had negligible associations with ICU total.
“The forgotten session”: Advancing research and practice concerning the psychology of rest in athletes
Published in Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 2022
David W. Eccles, Yannick Balk, Thomas W. Gretton, Nate Harris
Balk et al. (2017b) extended their earlier study by delineating between cognitive and emotional components of psychological detachment. Cognitive detachment is theorized as putting all thoughts about one’s sport aside. A lack of cognitive detachment interferes with recovery as stress-related thoughts intrude into consciousness, prolonging psychophysiological activity. Emotional detachment is theorized as achieving distance from negative sport-related emotions experienced during the day, which can interfere with recovery as a result of heightened arousal and, if persistent, energy depletion. A diary design was used to explore relationships between sport demands, cognitive and emotional detachment, and recovery in elite athletes. Constructs were measured via items derived from recovery scales used within organizational psychology. At bedtime each day during a typical training week, athletes reported the level of cognitive and, separately, emotional demand experienced in their sport that day. They also reported their current level of detachment from these cognitive and emotional demands. Finally, they reported the extent to which they felt recovered in both cognitive and emotional terms. The results indicated that emotional sport demands experienced that day were significantly negatively related to cognitive recovery (r = −0.22) and emotional recovery (r = −0.10) at bedtime, and emotional detachment was significantly positively related to cognitive recovery (r = −0.25) and emotional recovery (r = −0.33) at bedtime. Furthermore, emotional detachment buffered the relation between emotional sport demands and feeling emotionally recovered. In summary, the studies by Balk et al. (2017a, 2017b) provide emerging evidence of the role of psychological detachment in the recovery process in athletes.