Diabetes and Couples
Protective and Risk Factors
Editors: Sánchez-Aragón, Rozzana (Ed.)
Free Preview- Shows how personal traits and relationships affect the physical and psychological health of diabetic patients;
- Enriches medical information by analyzing relevant psychosocial variables that impact the treatment of diabetes;
- Helps researchers and practitioners understand health and illness processes from an interpersonal point of view.
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- About this book
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This book shows how psychological aspects of individuals and of couple relationships can work as both protective or risk factors to the health of diabetes patients and their partners. Departing from a social psychologic perspective, it analyzes how individual attributes and personal relationships influence health, focusing on the impacts that diabetes as a chronic-degenerative disease has on the psychological state of the patient and on their most immediate social context.
The volume is divided in three parts: the first focuses on the patient, the second on the partner and the third on the couple relationship. The first part examines how attachment styles, optimism, resilience, self-efficacy in emotional regulation, loneliness and rumination impact the stress experienced by the diabetic patient. The second part analyzes how the partner’s altruism, affectivity, jealousy, criticism or indifference affects the physical health of the diabetic patient. Finally, the third part explores the relationship between negative emotions and the couple’s motives of conflict, as well as the effects of the communication styles used, emotional warmth and empathy in the satisfaction with the relationship in couples where one of the members is a diabetes patient.Diabetes and Couple Relationship: Protective and Risk Factors will be a valuable resource for researchers, students and professionals in the fields of health and clinical psychology, social psychology and public health interested in better understanding how personal characteristics and relationships can affect the physical and psychological health of chronic disease patients, as well as their well-being and quality of life.
- About the authors
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Rozzana Sánchez-Aragón is a researcher and professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. She belongs to the National System of Researchers and her work has been disseminated in presentations and conferences at national and international conferences, workshops, research articles, book chapters and specialized texts. She was awarded with several distinctions among which stand out: the Gabino Barreda Medal for the master’s degree and the National University Distinction for Young Researchers in the Area of Social Sciences.
- Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Diabetes: An Approach from the Social Psychology of Health
Pages 3-19
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How Do Attachment Style, Optimism, Resilience, and Self-Efficacy Impact Stress and Its Control in Patients with Diabetes?
Pages 23-47
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Effects of Loneliness, Rumination, and Stress on Healthy Behaviors of People with Diabetes Regarding Their Ability to Receive Support and Self Confidence
Pages 49-70
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The Importance of Social Support and the Ability to Receive It in Subjective Well-Being and the Quality of Life of the Diabetic Patient
Pages 71-90
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Altruism, Uncontrollability, and Affectivity in the Physical Health of Diabetic Patient’s Partners
Pages 93-114
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Diabetes and Couples
- Book Subtitle
- Protective and Risk Factors
- Editors
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- Rozzana Sánchez-Aragón
- Copyright
- 2021
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-68498-3
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-68498-3
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-68497-6
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIV, 231
- Number of Illustrations
- 2 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
- Topics