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Family as a source of support under stress: Benefits of greater breadth of family inclusion
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This paper examined how lay theories about breadth of family inclusion (i.e., including a broader variety of entities in one's definition of family) were related to family experiences and to well-being.Abstract:
Family has profound meaning and represents the most important ingroup for most people, yet, we know very little about how lay perceptions of family affect well-being. In the current work, we examined how lay theories about breadth of family inclusion (i.e., including a broader variety of entities in one’s definition of family) were related to family experiences and to well-being. In Study 1, we found that lay theories about family as including a wider variety of entities (i.e., greater breadth of inclusion) predicted more positive family evaluations, more positive qualities, and greater family importance. In Study 2, we found that greater breadth of family inclusion was associated with greater resilience in the face of stress. Finally, in Study 3 we used an experimental manipulation of breadth of family inclusion, establishing that broader views of family produced greater social needs fulfillment. Implications for the role of ingroup memberships and identities in promoting well-being are discussed.read more
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We Are Family: Viewing Pets as Family Members Improves Wellbeing
TL;DR: The authors investigated how viewing one's pet as a family member improves wellbeing and found that including pets in a key social ingroup (i.e., family) would increase ascriptions of s...
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Family Communication and Psychological Distress in the Era of COVID-19 Pandemic: Mediating Role of Coping
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the association between family communication and psychological distress with coping as a potential mediator and found that people who have better family communication, highly engage in approach coping which in turn leads to better psychological health in face of adversity.
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Metaphors We Live By
George Lakoff,Mark Johnson +1 more
TL;DR: Lakoff and Johnson as mentioned in this paper suggest that these basic metaphors not only affect the way we communicate ideas, but actually structure our perceptions and understandings from the beginning, and they offer an intriguing and surprising guide to some of the most common metaphors and what they can tell us about the human mind.