Depressive symptoms and unmitigated communion in support providers

Liu, Jin; Yperen, Nico W. Van; Sanderman, Robbert; Hagedoorn, Mariët

doi:10.1002/per.741

Cited by 8 publications

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“…For these individuals, providing support may have been more taxing, or they may have been aware that their behaviors were ineffective. These findings are in contrast to two previous studies showing that low rather than high unmitigated communion individuals reaped the benefits of support provision (Helgeson et al, 2015; Jin et al, 2010). However, neither of those studies focused on a patient population in which support needs are higher and the consequences of support more critical.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Unmitigated communion also may have implications for the health of the support provider—the partner. In a cross-sectional study of healthy college students (Jin, Van Yperen, Sanderman, & Hagedoorn, 2010) and a daily diary study of healthy college students (Helgeson et al, 2015), unmitigated communion moderated the relation of support provision to health. Both studies showed that people who scored low on unmitigated communion benefited from being able to provide support but those who scored high on unmitigated communion did not.…”

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Implications of supportive and unsupportive behavior for couples with newly diagnosed diabetes.

Helgeson¹,

Mascatelli²,

Seltman³

et al. 2016

Health Psychology

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Objective To examine the relation between daily diary reports of diabetes-specific social interactions to patient and partner mood and patient self-care behaviors, and whether relations are moderated by unmitigated communion. Methods Participants were 70 couples in which one person had been diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes in the past 3 years. They were interviewed in-person at baseline and completed daily diary reports on an iPad. Daily diary questionnaires measured support, mood, and self-care behavior (patients only). Unmitigated communion, a personality trait characterized by an overinvolvement in others to the exclusion of the self, was measured at baseline. Results Multi-level statistical modeling revealed that daily fluctuations in partner emotional support were related to daily fluctuations in happy mood, more exercise, and dietary compliance. Partner controlling behavior was related to poor mood but was unrelated to self-care. Relations of support and controlling behavior to mood were strongest for individuals high (vs. low) in unmitigated communion. Conclusions Patients newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes who felt understood and cared for by partners reported a better mood and were more likely to take care of themselves on a daily basis, whereas patients whose partners were controlling on a daily basis reported poorer mood. Patients characterized by unmitigated communion were most affected by partner supportive and unsupportive behavior.

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Implications of supportive and unsupportive behavior for couples with newly diagnosed diabetes.

Helgeson¹,

Mascatelli²,

Seltman³

et al. 2016

Health Psychology

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“…In this regard, occupational communion may be a central process that influences the nature of social support processes and interactions. For example, people who are depressed and who also pose a highly communal orientation to social relationships do not derive pleasure or a sense of achievement from their support provisions or caring role (Jin et al ., 2010). Future quantitative research could explore whether occupational communion mediates the quality of the care or support workers provide people with dementia and their families.…”

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Perspectives of the community-based dementia care workforce: “occupational communion” a key finding from the Work 4 Dementia Project

Elliott

Stirling

Martin

et al. 2013

International Psychogeriatrics

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“…Unmitigated agency (focus on oneself and exclusion of others) would lead to physiological reactivity and should manifest in biological measures [33]. Unmitigated communion (focus on others and neglect of oneself) would enforce psychological distress, which should become evident in subjective health ratings [34]. This is especially interesting regarding our study focusing effects on subjective and biological stress measures.…”

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Research Effects of Person-Environment Fit of Gender-Role Orientation on Burnout, Engagement and Hair Steroids as Stress Biomarkers Among Women

Wacker

Schorlemmer

Fischer

2021

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Background Gender differences usually reveal higher occupational stress and burnout levels for women compared to men, especially in male-dominated working environments. In opposition to group differentiation, more specific gender-related dimensions feminity and masculinity were used in the study to describe individual and work environment characteristics and analyze their effects. Methods Two Person-Environment fit scores in feminity and masculinity were calculated by subtracting individual from environment values. Both fit scores were proved as predictors in hierarchical linear regression models predicting burnout and work engagement as well as hair steroids cortisol, cortisone, DHEA, testosterone and progesterone detected by Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) as stress biomarkers. Age as control variable and workplace characteristics were included in the analysis. Bivariate correlations as well as moderator and mediator analysis were implemented. Data was collected in a German medical services company with 146 employed women age 22–66 years (M = 40.48, SD = 10.38), 58 of them provided hair samples for steroid detection. Results After considering age, role clarity, and work organization, Person-Environment fit in feminity still added significant variance explanation (β = .23, ∆ R² = .05, p = .003) for burnout (R² = 0.40, p < .001). Person-Environment fit in feminity also explained poor variance in work engagement (β = − .29, R² = .09, p < .001). Person-Environment fit in masculinity added considerable variance explanation (β = .34, ∆ R² = .12, p = 0.018) to cortisol levels (R² = .19, p = .012) after including quantitative demands to the model. Conclusions Person-Environment fit in feminity might be inspected as a predictor for burnout and work engagement. Person-Environment fit in masculinity can be taken into consideration as a predictor for hair cortisol as stress biomarker. Feminity and masculinity can be used as personality traits as well as characteristics of work environment, thus providing a particular gender-role related method of differentiation within gender groups. Also, specific methods could be derived for stress and burnout prevention and promotion of work engagement. Representative population studies with bigger samples and longitudinal surveys are needed to better explore the benefits and limitations of this approach.

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Depressive symptoms and unmitigated communion in support providers

Cited by 8 publications

References 59 publications

Implications of supportive and unsupportive behavior for couples with newly diagnosed diabetes.

Implications of supportive and unsupportive behavior for couples with newly diagnosed diabetes.

Perspectives of the community-based dementia care workforce: “occupational communion” a key finding from the Work 4 Dementia Project

Research Effects of Person-Environment Fit of Gender-Role Orientation on Burnout, Engagement and Hair Steroids as Stress Biomarkers Among Women

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