Illness representations of cancer may comprise inaccurate information, misconceptions, or negative conceptualizations of the disease, which may influence screening behaviors.
The powerful influence of social prescriptions about the gendered nature of caregiving may be cause for concern regarding child well-being if children internalize negative self-conceptualizations because of living in the "wrong kind" of family (Parreñas, 2010).
Additionally, the children may already have internalized some of the negative self-conceptualizations from the wider social community (Parreñas, 2010) and future research should consider how best to incorporate dimensions of community characteristics to capture cultural and social norms that may influence child well-being.
"Self-as-story" tendencies are associated with reduced wellbeing, particularly if self-conceptualizations are negative.
The powerfully negative meanings evoked by the prevailing conceptualization of disability may overwhelm both the equality of opportunity and the moral respect that disabled people's exercise of autonomy or independence should command.
Part of the answer explaining the negative results might lie in an incomplete conceptualization of the pathophysiology of AD.
In the domain Cultural Integration & Conceptualization in Table 1, eight questions pertaining negative perceptions of the Dutch society correlated with low compliance: parents who agreed with these questions were significantly less compliant (30%-40 30%-40 parents who did not agree with these questions.
While the former 'pervasively use the halo of "community" with impunity to legitimize' (Kumar 2005: 277) particular development interventions, the latter continually point to the shortcomings and negative effects of oversimplified and 'romanticized' (Earle 2005: 248) conceptualizations of local groups of social organization (e.g. Kerven et al. 2012: 368, 374-375).
In this specific context, I find only limited support for the theory: While unfulfilled expectations about material payoffs generate negative emotions in subjects (which is in line with BDS' conceptualization of frustration), these emotions do not affect subjects' behavior in the experiment.
Many (parent-report) studies use the somewhat broader conceptualization of a reactive or difficult child temperament, including negative emotionality, irritability, and fussiness, as a temperamental predisposition for anxiety.
