Expressed Emotion
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Expressed emotion in wives of myocardial infarction patients: an exploratory feasibility study.

29 Sep 2009 INTRODUCTION: We assessed the emotional components expressed by the spouses of patients at the first episode of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and considered potential underlying links among these components and the course of the cardiac symptoms ... Read more...

Appraisal of caregiving burden, expressed emotion and psychological distress in families of people with eating disorders: a systematic review.

30 Aug 2009 The purpose of this review is to appraise the literature regarding psychological distress, burden and expressed emotion (EE) in caregivers of people with eating disorders (EDs). Electronic databases were searched up until October 2008. Selected ... Read more...

Do great apes use emotional expressions to infer desires?

30 Aug 2009 Although apes understand others' goals and perceptions, little is known about their understanding of others' emotional expressions. We conducted three studies following the general paradigm of Repacholi and colleagues (1997, 1998). In Study 1, a ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Expressed Emotion'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Expressed emotion in wives of myocardial infarction patients: an exploratory feasibility study. 29 Sep 2009
• Appraisal of caregiving burden, expressed emotion and psychological distress in families of people with eating disorders: a systematic review. 30 Aug 2009
• Do great apes use emotional expressions to infer desires? 30 Aug 2009
• Changes in maternal expressed emotion toward clinically anxious children following cognitive behavioral therapy. 3 Aug 2009
• Mind your own business! Longitudinal relations between perceived privacy invasion and adolescent-parent conflict. 30 Jul 2009
• Desired change in couples: gender differences and effects on communication. 30 Jul 2009
• Parent, family, and child characteristics: associations with mother- and father-reported emotion socialization practices. 30 Jul 2009
• Gray matter reduction associated with emotion regulation in female outpatients with major depressive disorder: a voxel-based morphometry study. 17 Jul 2009
• Undernourished children have different temperaments than better-nourished children in rural Bangladesh. 13 Jul 2009
• Equanimity to excess: inhibiting the expression of negative emotion is associated with depression symptoms in girls. 29 Jun 2009
• Grasping the nutritional situation: a grounded theory study of patients' experiences in intensive care. 29 Jun 2009
• Anger, preoccupied attachment, and domain disorganization in borderline personality disorder. 30 May 2009
• Expressed emotion moderates the effects of family-focused treatment for bipolar adolescents. 30 May 2009
• Cultural variability in the manifestation of expressed emotion. 30 May 2009
• Quality of early care and childhood trauma: a prospective study of developmental pathways to dissociation. 30 May 2009
• Emotional processing in PTSD: heightened negative emotionality to unpleasant photographic stimuli. 30 May 2009
• Emotional dysregulation in dysphoria: support for Emotion Context Insensitivity in response to performance-based feedback. 21 May 2009
• The testosterone-cortisol ratio: A hormonal marker for proneness to social aggression. 13 May 2009
• The nature of human aggression. 30 Apr 2009
• Balancing between mental vulnerability and strength in daily life when suffering from eating difficulties. 29 Apr 2009

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Technical information about 'Expressed Emotion'

Definition: Frequency and quality of negative emotions, e.g., anger or hostility, expressed by family members or significant others, that often lead to a high relapse rate, especially in schizophrenic patients. (APA, Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, 7th ed)

Descriptor UI: D019260

Alternative terms: Expressed Emotion; Emotion, Expressed; Emotions, Expressed; Expressed Emotions;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; ethics;

Tree Number: F01.470.342;

History Note: 97

Technical Notes: negative emotions like anger & hostility: coord IM with specific emotion (IM) if relevant