Diminished Expectations

Diminished Control and Unmet Expectations: Testing a Model of Adjustment to Unplanned Cesarean Delivery

Compared to vaginal deliveries, surgical (cesarean) deliveries are associated with more complications, longer recovery, lower satisfaction, and greater risk of postpartum mood disturbances. Despite a steep rise in rates of surgical delivery, there have been few theoretically founded investigations of the mechanisms by which delivery method has an effect on psychosocial outcome. We tested a mode...

Diminished Rationality, Diminished Responsibility

Self-enhancement diminished.

Self-enhancement is a positive bias in self-perception, which may imply error. However, conventional measures of self-enhancement are difference scores that do not distinguish a positive bias from a self-enhancement error, that is, they fail to identify those individuals who hold an irrationally or inaccurately positive view of themselves. We propose 2 new measures to separate error from bias. ...

Diminished Synthesis of an

hemoglobins there is usually less than 50% of the mutant hemoglobin present in peripheral blood. The synthetic rates of a-chain mutants compared to a' have not been reported to date. In this study the production of a'and at-chains has been measured in peripheral blood and bone marrow of two patients with approximately 30% hemoglobin I, an a-chain abnormality (ale lye -* 1U). The results suggest...

Disorders of diminished motivation.

Disorders of diminished motivation occur frequently in individuals with traumatic brain injury. Motivation is an ever-present, essential determinant of behavior and adaptation. The major syndromes of diminished motivation are apathy, abulia, and akinetic mutism. Depending on their etiology, disorders of diminished motivation may be a primary clinical disturbance, a symptom of another disorder, ...