Self-worth and bonding emotions are related to well-being in health-care providers: a cross-sectional study

BMC Medical Education

Table 3 Eudaimonic emotions

Emotions	Eudaimonic purpose
Self-directed positive emotions, i.e., emotions in the categories affection and joy	Self-worth
Patient-directed positive emotions, i.e., emotions in the categories affection and joy	Bonding with the patient
Patient-directed negative emotions that reflect bonding, i.e., emotions in the categories sadness and fear	Bonding with the patient

Note. Not all patient-directed sadness and fear emotions are likely to reflect bonding. To demarcate emotions that reflect bonding with the patient from those that reflect distance from the patient, we followed the theoretical considerations from Fischer & Manstead [40] and excluded disappointment among the sadness emotions and being afraid of the patient among the fear emotions from our analysis

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