For example, glitches in the brain, wandering thoughts, wishful thinking, strong emotions, etc., may all be implicated in deviant causal chains.
Wishful thinking, an emotion-focused way of coping, has been found to be associated with depression in medical students [ 6], and has predicted need of mental health treatment in young doctors [ 7].
At the same time, Obama has to guard against allowing emotion and wishful thinking to take over U.S. policy.
As expected, we found that a low level of passive, emotion focused coping, such as wishful thinking, was associated with stable high life satisfaction.
Medical students who sustained high levels of life satisfaction perceived medical school as interfering less with their social and personal life, and were less likely to use emotion focused coping, such as wishful thinking, than their peers.
The results of this study stress the importance of making time for personal and social life while in medical school, and the advantage of avoiding the use of passive, emotion focused coping, such as wishful thinking.
Medical students who sustained high levels of life satisfaction perceived medical school as interfering less with their social and personal life, and made less use of passive, emotion focused coping, such as wishful thinking, than did their peers.
The reduction in emotion-focused coping, such as self-blame or wishful thinking, may have been a factor reducing the risk of relapse in emotional exhaustion in experience of renewed stress-exposure.
Three cross-sectional studies have reported associations between coping, i.e. suppression of emotions at a neurotic level [ 46], wishful thinking [ 23], low sense of coherence [ 56], ego defence mechanisms (displacement, regression, and projection) [ 26], and more PTSD symptoms.
Maybe it was a mirage or wishful thinking, but the stoic point guard who generally hides his emotions as if playing a game of peek-a-boo seemed unusually revealing in his body language last night.
Typical thoughts and emotions will include anger, fear, worry, a sense of unfairness, resentment, exhaustion, hope, joy at shared memories, wishful thinking, relief, sadness, despair and more.
