ArticleClinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science2016
Self-distancing Buffers High Trait Anxious Pediatric Cancer Caregivers against Short- and Longer-term Distress.
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- Decentering as a core component in the psychological treatment and prevention of youth anxiety and depression: a narrative review and insight report.Translational psychiatry · 2021Review
- Understanding differences in the long-term psychosocial adjustment of pediatric cancer patients and their parents: an individual differences resources model.Translational behavioral medicine · 2019Article
- Adaptive Reflection on Negative Emotional Experiences: Convergences and Divergence Between the Processing-Mode Theory and the Theory of Self-Distancing Reflection.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Review
- Out of the Mouths of Babes: Links Between Linguistic Structure of Loss Narratives and Psychosocial Functioning in Parentally Bereaved Children.Journal of traumatic stress · 2018Article
- The impact of self-distancing on emotion explosiveness and accumulation: An fMRI study.PloS one · 2018Article
- Promoting the Self-Regulation of Stress in Health Care Providers: An Internet-Based Intervention.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- Managerial Self-Efficacy for Chemotherapy-Related Symptoms and Related Risk Factors in Women with Breast CancerAsian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP · 2017Article
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Abstract
Pediatric cancer caregivers are typically present at their child's frequent, invasive treatments, and such treatments elicit substantial distress. Yet, variability exists in how even the most anxious caregivers cope. Here we examined one potential source of this variability: caregivers' tendencies to self-distance when reflecting on their feelings surrounding their child's treatments. We measured caregivers' self-distancing and trait anxiety at baseline, anticipatory anxiety during their child's treatment procedures, and psychological distress and avoidance three months later. Self-distancing buffered high (but not low) trait anxious caregivers against short- and long-term distress without promoting avoidance. These findings held when controlling for other buffers, highlighting the unique benefits of self-distancing. These results identify a coping process that buffers vulnerable caregivers against a chronic life stressor while also demonstrating the ecological validly of laboratory research on self-distancing. Future research is needed to explicate causality and the cognitive and physiological processes that mediate these results.
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