Results indicated that Perceived Sleep Quality was associated with self-reported distress tolerance and increased frustration on a distressing task, after accounting for covariates.
His role is an important daily reminder that Mr Mandela's failing health is an intensely personal issue for many of those now involved in the distressing task of managing the flow of information from a Pretoria hospital bed, to a waiting world.
It is an emotionally distressing task.
The Britons, though, obediently proffered their candidates, whilst pretending to find the task distressing.
With increasingly cruel tasks and distressing living situations (I still haven't got over them banning books), the housemates' tempers frayed, getting worse by the year, and when all else failed, the producers shoved a crateload of booze in and hoped for a fight.
The soldiers who handled the bodies found the task "extremely distressing and upsetting and one that had a profound and lasting effect on them", according to the report.
To index intrusion frequency in the recovery period as a function of condition, the number of times participants spontaneously mentioned the content of the distressing video during the SOC task was also computed.
People who perform a cognitively demanding secondary task while recalling a distressing memory often experience the memory as less emotional, vivid, or accurate during subsequent recollections.
At the beginning and end of the retreat, the participants also had their cortisol levels measured with a saliva test, and their mindfulness levels rated on a scale, which Jacobs explained in the statement "measured the participants' propensity to let go of distressing thoughts and attend to different sensory domains, daily tasks, and the current contents of their minds".
In this experiment, we tested whether the emotional valence (positive versus neutral) and sensory modality (visual, auditory, or both) of a secondary task diminishes the emotionality, vividness, and accuracy of memory of distressing videos.
Parents face the awesome task of dealing with their own reactions and feelings without distressing their child any further [ 49].
