In 1984, psychologist Judith Rodin coined this term to describe the widespread negative preoccupation with body image, especially in women.
Removing these items not only resulted in lower consumption of junk food at school and overall (no compensatory junk eating at home), but it also didn't seem to result in negative preoccupation with weight.
The significantly higher HFS-P behavior score among the mothers of children measuring blood glucose ≥7 times per day compared to those measuring 4 6 or ≤3 times per day may indicate either positive maternal engagement in diabetes management or negative preoccupation and distress.
Internal reliability was fair to good and the factor structure and item-total correlations supported the existence of a single construct with three subfactors, measuring negative behavioral consequences, preoccupation and impaired control over gambling and tolerance, and withdrawal and relief gambling.
The psychiatrist's acquaintance with the phenomenon of "non-specific specificity" is, in our view, extremely important in the context of early diagnostic assessment, especially of patients presenting with a vague, unelaborated picture of maladjustment, underperformance, chronic malaise and dysphoria, negative symptoms, or hypochondriac preoccupations.
Other symptoms include intrusive thoughts about death; uncontrollable bouts of sadness, guilt and other negative emotions; and a preoccupation with, or avoidance of, anything associated with the loss.
Loss of interest in the outside world was estimated by item 7 (self-centred attitude) of PANSS negative and item 15 (preoccupation) of general subscale.
The MAC-21 consists of three subscales: "fighting spirit" measures positive adjustment, while "helplessness/hopelessness" and "anxious preoccupation" measure negative adjustment [ 47].
Despite all these negative experiences, an overall preoccupation with the patient was always present, resulting in actions of care even for the patient with 'the hopeless disease'.
Analysis found the intervention led to reductions with moderate associated effect sizes in negative affect, helplessness/hopelessness, anxious preoccupation, and fatalism.
