Attachment style, existential loneliness and depression among resident physicians in public hospitals of Athens
Abstract
The Attachement Theory, as formulated by Bowlby, suggests that the quality of the attachement formed at the beginning of life, between the child and the caregiver, has a direct association with mental health and general functioning when the child passes into adulthood. Several mental health professionals, such as psychologists and psychiatrists, have long recognized the usefulness of Attachement Theory, as it relates to the provision of care to their patients and the psychotherapeutic interventions they apply. Physicians are often under stressful and pressing conditions, such as increased responsibility for others, life or death decisions, overtime shifts, longlasting education (Maslach & Jackson, 1982). Their emotional exhaustion, due to their burdens, has been found to be associated with the patient's satisfaction of the services that the physician has to offer (Anagnostopoulos, Liolios, Persefonis, Sluter, Kafetsios & Niakas, 2012). Already from the first year of their specialty, r ...
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