Happy thus survivor? A systematic review and meta-analysis on the association between cancer survival and positive states, emotions, and traits.

Objectives: Traditionally, the literature investigating patient-reported outcomes in relation to cancer survival focused on negative factors such as distress. Meta-analyses in this field have provided a clear identification of negative affect that reduce cancer survival (e.g.

Caregivers' perception of patients' interpersonal and psychiatric alterations: What is the impact on their health?

Purpose: Previous research conducted among caregivers of patients with cancer revealed a poor Quality of Life (QoL) and high levels of distress. In addition to the influence of patients' clinical state, caregivers' appraisals of patients' difficulties should be considered as another predictor of poor caregiver health. This study aims to test the association between caregivers' health (i.

A multidimensional examination of affective and cognitive empathy in anorexia nervosa.

Socio-emotional features are crucial in the development and maintenance of anorexia nervosa (AN). The present study investigates the patterns of altered and preserved empathic abilities in AN. Empathy is an umbrella term that comprises the ability to recognise another's emotional state, take another's perspective, and fantasise (cognitive empathy), as well as the ability to experience vicarious emotions and signal them (affective empathy).

Following ICD-11, Rebuilding Mental Health Care for Transgender Persons: Leads from Field Experimentations in Lille, France.

Psychiatrists have long been charged with access and coordination of care for transgender persons. This is now challenged by the World Health Organization's removal of diagnoses of mental illness related to gender identity in the 11th revision of the International Classification of Diseases. Using French field experimentations based on informal and primary care and free and informed consent, we discuss key challenges for a new organization of mental health care respectful of human rights.

Sub-dimensions of trait emotional intelligence and health: A critical and systematic review of the literature.

Despite a growing number of studies on the role of the multidimensional construct of trait emotional intelligence (EI) in health, most have focused on global EI, without examining the role of the sub-dimensions. The present systematic review aimed to highlight the current knowledge about self-reported health associated with trait-EI sub-dimensions in general and clinical populations. We searched for the articles including valid self-report scales of trait-EI and health (mental or physical or general) in general and clinical samples.