Social Distance
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Iranian nurses' preparation for loss: finding a balance in end-of-life care.

10 Nov 2009 AIM: To explore the nurse-patient interaction in terminally ill situations in acute care, focusing on the nurses' preparation for loss. BACKGROUND: Caring for dying patients can be a distressing and sometimes even threatening experience for nurses. ... Read more...

Thinking about my generation: adaptive effects of a dual age identity in later adulthood.

30 Aug 2009 Growing old involves experiences of losses. Yet, it is not clear whether one's cohort group membership poses a resource in later adulthood. The authors examined the role of a dual age identity (age group vs. generation) across adulthood and possible ... Read more...

When race matters: racially stigmatized others and perceiving race as a biological construction affect biracial people's daily well-being.

30 Aug 2009 Stigmatized group members experience greater well-being in the presence of similar others, which may be driven by the perception that similar others value their shared stigmatized identities (i.e., high public regard). Using experience sampling ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Social Distance'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Iranian nurses' preparation for loss: finding a balance in end-of-life care. 10 Nov 2009
• [Empathy, a just milieu between clinical and daily ethics] 30 Aug 2009
• [Between emotional engagement and professional distance. The "kangaroos" are Germany's first KTQ certified pediatric nursing care] 30 Aug 2009
• Thinking about my generation: adaptive effects of a dual age identity in later adulthood. 30 Aug 2009
• When race matters: racially stigmatized others and perceiving race as a biological construction affect biracial people's daily well-being. 30 Aug 2009
• Benefits of negative social exchanges for emotional closeness. 10 Aug 2009
• [Renal transplanted adolescents' perception of the relationship to the interdisciplinary health care team] 30 Jul 2009
• Distancing from experienced self: how global-versus-local perception affects estimation of psychological distance. 30 Jul 2009
• Distance-dependent processing of pictures and words. 30 Jul 2009
• Psychological distance and group judgments: the effect of physical distance on beliefs about common goals. 20 Jul 2009
• And yet they move: the impact of direction of deviance on stereotype change. 6 Jul 2009
• Social construction of the patient through problems of safety, uninsurance, and unequal treatment. 29 Jun 2009
• "I'm not gay. . . . I'm a real man!": Heterosexual Men's Gender Self-Esteem and Sexual Prejudice. 29 Jun 2009
• Knowledge about schizophrenia and attitudes towards people with schizophrenia in Greece. 29 Jun 2009
• Children's beliefs about causes of childhood depression and ADHD: a study of stigmatization. 29 Jun 2009
• Are cultural characteristics associated with the relationship between self and others' ratings of leadership? 29 Jun 2009
• "Why do they become vulnerable when faced with the challenges of old age?" Elderly people who committed suicide, described by those who knew them. 10 Jun 2009
• Antecedents and consequences of social identity complexity: intergroup contact, distinctiveness threat, and outgroup attitudes. 6 Jun 2009
• [Perceived stigma at the end of hospitalization and mentally ill subjects' social reinsertion] 30 May 2009
• Distancing from a target person with cancer: the role of empathy-inducing instructions and family history of cancer. 30 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Social Distance'

Definition: The degree of closeness or acceptance an individual or group feels toward another individual or group.

Descriptor UI: D012929

Alternative terms: Social Distance; Distance, Social; Distances, Social; Social Distances;

Tree Number: F01.145.813.630; F01.829.316.777;

History Note: 69

Technical Notes: no qualif