The Effect of Hope on Coping with Stress

Breznitz, Shlomo

doi:10.1007/978-1-4684-5122-1_15

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“…Hope facilitates goal setting, planning, use of imagery, creativity, and cognitive flexibility (Breznitz 1986;Snyder 1994Snyder , 2000. Unlike empathy that relates to engaging affectively and cognitively with the suffering of another, hope has been pointed to as enabling those involved in violent conflicts to imagine a future that is different and better than the past, as well as the negative present.…”

Section: Empathy and Hope In Escalation And De-escalationmentioning

confidence: 98%

The Distinctive Effects of Empathy and Hope in Intractable Conflicts

Rosler

Cohen‐Chen

Halperin

2016

Journal of Conflict Resolution

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The goal of the current research was to examine how discrete positive intergroup emotional phenomena affect conflict-related attitudes in different contexts of intractable conflict. We hypothesized that empathy, but not hope would be negatively associated with aggressive attitudes during escalation, while hope, but not empathy would be associated with conciliatory attitudes during de-escalation. In study 1, we examined our hypotheses within a correlational design in an emotioninducing context, while in study 2 a two-wave survey was conducted during reallife events within the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; a peace summit as well as a war. Both studies supported our hypotheses, thus indicating the unique, yet complimentary, contribution of each of the two emotional phenomena to the advancement of peace.

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Section: Empathy and Hope In Escalation And De-escalationmentioning

confidence: 98%

The Distinctive Effects of Empathy and Hope in Intractable Conflicts

Rosler

Cohen‐Chen

Halperin

2016

Journal of Conflict Resolution

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“…Hope is based on high cognitive processing, requiring mental representations of positively valued abstract future situations and more specifically, it requires setting goals, planning how to achieve them, use of imagery, creativity, cognitive flexibility, mental exploration of novel situations, and even risk taking (Breznitz 1986;Clore et al 1994;Fromm 1968;Isen 1990;Lazarus 1991;Snyder 1994Snyder , 2000. The affective component of hope is considered a consequence of cognitive elements and may contain positive as well as negative features since individuals may realize that the achievement of their goal may involve struggles, costs, and endurance (Snyder1994, 2000.…”

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confidence: 99%

Coping Resources as Explanatory Factors of Stress Reactions During Missile Attacks: Comparing Jewish and Arab Adolescents in Israel

Braun‐Lewensohn

Sagy

2010

Community Ment Health J

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The aim of this study was to explore coping resources as explanatory factors in reducing emotional distress of adolescents in an acute stress situation. We compared two ethnic groups-Jewish and Arab-Bedouin Israelis-during intensive missile attacks in January 2009. Data were gathered from 138 Israeli-Jews and 84 Israeli-Arab Bedouins, 12-18 years old, who filled out self reported questionnaires among which state anxiety, state anger, and psychological distress (SPD) were measures of emotional distress, and sense of coherence (SOC) and hope index served as measures of coping resources. Findings indicated no differences between the two groups on state anxiety, SPD and hope levels. Arab Bedouins reported higher levels of state anger and lower levels of sense of coherence. The coping resources, however, explained the stress reactions differently among the two groups. While SOC made a major contribution in explaining stress reactions among Jewish adolescents, hope index explained stress reactions only for the Arab group. The findings are discussed against the background of the salutogenic theory and the cultural differences between the two ethnic groups.

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“…Some studies indicate that hope has beneficial effects on health, for example, better coping with arthritis (301), burn injuries (28), fibromyalgia (10,313), and pain (75,300,301). In contrast, hopelessness and pessimism have been found to be associated with illness and mortality (120,255,284,306).…”

Section: Hope and Hopelessness May Be Related To Serotonergic And Normentioning

confidence: 99%

Placebo and the New Physiology of the Doctor-Patient Relationship

Benedetti

2013

Physiological Reviews

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Modern medicine has progressed in parallel with the advancement of biochemistry, anatomy, and physiology. By using the tools of modern medicine, the physician today can treat and prevent a number of diseases through pharmacology, genetics, and physical interventions. Besides this materia medica, the patient's mind, cognitions, and emotions play a central part as well in any therapeutic outcome, as investigated by disciplines such as psychoneuroendocrinoimmunology. This review describes recent findings that give scientific evidence to the old tenet that patients must be both cured and cared for. In fact, we are today in a good position to investigate complex psychological factors, like placebo effects and the doctor-patient relationship, by using a physiological and neuroscientific approach. These intricate psychological factors can be approached through biochemistry, anatomy, and physiology, thus eliminating the old dichotomy between biology and psychology. This is both a biomedical and a philosophical enterprise that is changing the way we approach and interpret medicine and human biology. In the first case, curing the disease only is not sufficient, and care of the patient is of tantamount importance. In the second case, the philosophical debate about the mind-body interaction can find some important answers in the study of placebo effects. Therefore, maybe paradoxically, the placebo effect and the doctor-patient relationship can be approached by using the same biochemical, cellular and physiological tools of the materia medica, which represents an epochal transition from general concepts such as suggestibility and power of mind to a true physiology of the doctor-patient interaction. I.WHAT I. WHAT IS A PLACEBO RESPONSE? A. Placebos Were Introduced to Validate the Efficacy of Medical TreatmentsAncient physicians have always used bizarre and odd treatments to cure their patients, with scarce, if any, knowledge of anatomy and physiology. As the anatomical and physiological details of both the animal and the human body started emerging, the need of a scientific explanation of many medical treatments became an imperative objective of physicians and the scientific community. An important historical period whereby scientific skepticism emerged about the efficacy of some medical remedies is approximately in the second half of 1700 and involved treatments like mesmerism, perkinism, and homeopathy (178).To take mesmerism as an example, this was introduced in the second half of 1700 by Franz Anton Mesmer, who claimed to have discovered a healing fluid which he called animal magnetism. To assess the very nature and the efficacy of mesmerism in treating many diseases and symptoms, Louis XVI appointed a commission that was headed by Benjamin Franklin. This commission performed what can be considered one of the first blind assessments and sham (placebo) interventions in the history of medicine. Some women were blindfolded and asked where the mesmeric energy was being applied. As reported by the members of the commission th...

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The Effect of Hope on Coping with Stress

Cited by 69 publications

References 7 publications

The Distinctive Effects of Empathy and Hope in Intractable Conflicts

The Distinctive Effects of Empathy and Hope in Intractable Conflicts

Coping Resources as Explanatory Factors of Stress Reactions During Missile Attacks: Comparing Jewish and Arab Adolescents in Israel

Placebo and the New Physiology of the Doctor-Patient Relationship

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