Thoughts and feelings associated with parasuicide: A thematic analysis

[A questionnaire of insight into schizophrenia--"my thoughts and feelings"].

AIM Construction of a brief, self-rating questionnaire of insight into schizophrenia, that can be useful in everyday practice. METHOD The questionnaire is based on reports of patients with good remissions, confronted with the group interviews with severely psychotic patients without insight. They led to the formulation of 16 questions with three possible answers reflecting lack of insight, fu...

Inferring power-relevant thoughts and feelings in others: A signal detection analysis

Drawing inferences about other people’s thoughts and feelings related to power issues (‘powerrelevant’ thoughts and feelings) can affect how hierarchies are formed. Perceivers who infer such thoughts and feelings can be biased (i.e., overor underestimating the occurrence of power-relevant thoughts and feelings). We investigated whether the perceiver’s gender and the perceiver’s preference for a...

Elements of healthy death: a thematic analysis

Background: Death is a natural and frightening phenomenon, which is inevitable. Previous studies on death, which presented a negative and tedious image of this process, are now being revised and directed towards acceptable death and good death. One of the proposed terms about death and dying is “healthy death”, which encourages dealing with death positively and leading a lively and ...

Self-Esteem and Emotion: Some Thoughts About Feelings

Self-esteem has been linked to a diverse array of positive and negative affective states. The present research explored the nature of these relationships. Study 1 found that self-esteem (as measured by the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale) is more closely associated with self-relevant emotional states than with emotional states that do not directly implicate the self. Study 2 replicated these findin...

JUDGMENTS OVER TIME The Interplay of Thoughts , Feelings , and Behaviors