Добірка наукової літератури з теми "Anticipated positive emotions"

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the nature and concept of emoticons/emojis. Instead of taking for granted that these user-generated formats are necessarily emotional, we empirically assessed in what extent are they and the specificity of each one. Drawing on congruent mood state, valence core and emotion appraisal theories we expected a compatible statistical association between positive/negative/neutral emotional valence expressions and emoticons of similar valence. The positive emoticons were consistently associated with positive valence posts. Added to that analysis, 21 emotional categories were identified in posts and correlated with eight emoticons. Design/methodology/approach Two studies were used to address this question. The first study defined emoticon concept and interpreted their meaning highlighting their communication goals and anticipated effects. The link between emojis and emoticons was also obtained. Some emoticons types present more ambiguity than others. In the second study, three years of real and private (Facebook) posts from 82 adolescents were content analyzed and coded. Findings Only the neutral emoticons always matched neutral emotional categories found in the written interaction. Although the emoticon valence and emotional category congruence pattern was the rule, we also detected a combination of different valence emoticons types and emotion categories valence expressions. Apparently the connection between emoticon and emotion are not so obviously straightforward as the literature used to assume. The created objects designed to communicate emotions (emoticons) have their specific corresponding logic with the emotional tone of the message. Originality/value Theoretically, we discussed the emotional content of emoticons/emojis. Although this king of signals have an Asian origin and later borrowed from the western countries, their ambiguity and differing specificity have never been analyzed.

Entrepreneurship education can facilitate students’ competency development and enhance their self-employment potential. Students’ involvement in entrepreneurship is influenced by their emotions, especially in the early stages of business start-ups. Without exploiting potential business opportunities, entrepreneurship will not occur. This study aims to determine positive emotion effects on the relationship between entrepreneurship education and business opportunity exploitation. The study’s sample comprise of 152 final year university students. A questionnaire-based survey was the main instrument employed and the hypotheses developed were tested using Partial Least Squares-Structural Equation Modeling. The findings show that the students’ action to exploit opportunities is significant, and is affected by the exposure to entrepreneurial learning and anticipated effect of positive emotion on entrepreneurship. This finding confirms that anticipated positive emotions are important throughout the entrepreneurial process and form a motivating factor to engage in entrepreneurial activities. Furthermore, the result shows that positive emotions partially mediate the relationship between entrepreneurship education and opportunity exploitation. This study is important for students to experience a paradigm shift towards entrepreneurship and to encourage them to select entrepreneurship as a career option. Future studies could explore the effect of anticipated negative emotions among tertiary education students, and potential entrepreneurs.

Trust in automation has been mainly studied in the cognitive perspective, though some researchers have shown that trust is also influenced by emotion. Therefore, it is essential to investigate the relationships between emotions and trust. In this study, we explored the pattern of 19 anticipated emotions associated with two levels of trust (i.e., low vs. high levels of trust) elicited from two levels of autonomous vehicles (AVs) performance (i.e., failure and non-failure) from 105 participants from Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT). Trust was assessed at three layers i.e., dispositional, initial learned, and situational trust. The study was designed to measure how emotions are affected with low and high levels of trust. Situational trust was significantly correlated with emotions that a high level of trust significantly improved participants’ positive emotions, and vice versa. We also identified the underlying factors of emotions associated with situational trust. Our results offered important implications on anticipated emotions associated with trust in AVs.

Consumer awareness of environmental protection and energy conservation concepts has prompted businesses in the hotel industry to adopt green operations. Most studies of the hotel industry have discussed the behavioral intentions (BIs) of consumers based on the theory of planned behavior (TPB), but they have not considered emotional and motivational factors. The present study incorporated two incentive mechanisms and the anticipated positive and negative emotions of consumers into the TPB to explore the relationship between BIs and green hotel development. Structural equation modeling was applied to test the research hypotheses. The results indicate that (1) a positive correlation exists between environmental attitude, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control (PBC), positive anticipated emotion, and desire intention (DI), and a negative correlation exists between negative anticipated emotions and DI; (2) a positive correlation exists between PBC, DI, and BI; and (3) an incentive mechanism has a moderating effect on the relationship between DI and BI.

Purpose This study aims to explore the role of positive and negative anticipated emotions on adoption and continued usage of consumer products. The components of value eliciting anticipated emotions are investigated as well. Design/methodology/approach The conceptual model proposed is tested in two empirical studies, one focussing on functional and hedonic products and one on incremental and radical product innovations. Data are collected through online surveys on consumers and are analysed using structural equation modelling. Findings Results confirm the ability of anticipated emotions to influence product decision-making process. Moreover, anticipated emotions mediate the influence of value perceptions on product attitude. Findings show that these relationships vary greatly between initial adoption and further usage of the product. Practical implications Findings from this study may help marketers in the development of the right brand strategies and communication campaigns, aimed at building emotional connections with the consumer which prompt product adoption and usage. Originality/value Anticipated emotions, the predictions about the emotional consequences of a behaviour, have been acknowledged as strong drivers of consumer choices. Despite that, the role of anticipated emotions in product decision-making has not been explored yet. The present research, by means of a novel conceptual model, uncovers the role of anticipated emotions in both product adoption and continued usage decisions and depicts the components of value arousing such anticipated emotions.

Although interpersonal emotion regulation (IER) has gained more attention in recent years, few studies focus on IER in romantic relationships. In this study, using a qualitative-quantitative approach, we assessed the most commonly-used IER strategies employed by couples in both positive and negative interactions, and the anticipated self and partner’s emotions arising from their utilization. One hundred and ninety-nine couples participated in this research. The participants had to read a vignette that had a positive connotation and imagine they were the main character and write answers to four questions. Then, they had to repeat the process, using the negative connotation vignette. The questions were focused on the assessment of the self-anticipated IER strategies as well as the self and partner’s anticipated emotional reactions associated with the self-anticipated IER strategies. The thematic analysis showed that most of the participants described IER strategies that fit either into the ‘cognitive engagement’ category or in the ‘put own feelings first’ category. The most frequently anticipated self and partner’s emotions were ‘calm’, ‘joy’ or ‘sadness’. IER strategies have an effect not only on the target but also on the regulator. This aspect can contribute to a better understanding of couple relationships.

Purpose – Based on narrative theory, emotional contagion theory, and anticipated emotions theory, the purpose of this paper is to adopt an experimental design intended to understand how narrative advertising video on internet, narrator flow and online audience characteristics influence the health communication effects and depression prevention messages of public service advertisements. Design/methodology/approach – This study uses two experimental designs. The first contrasts the effectiveness of persuasion between narrative and argument advertising videos on internet, while the second contrasts the effectiveness of persuasion between narrators with high and low flow. This study employed partial least squares path modeling to validate the research structure hypothesis. Findings – Empirical results indicate that internet narrative advertising video is not direct, but rather draws on flow and positive anticipated emotions to stimulate the production of online audience intention to adopt health risk-reducing behaviors. Compared with narrative advertising video, which influences intention to adopt health risk-reducing behaviors through flow and positive anticipated emotions, narrator advertising video with an emotionally invested high-flow narrator can strengthen online audience intention to adopt risk-reducing behaviors more directly and positively. Practical implications – The study results can provide elements to assist in the design of online advertising video on depression prevention and health promotion. Originality/value – In this study, the dialogue among narrative theory, emotional contagion theory, and anticipated emotions theory is constructed, and an integrated conceptual framework is developed for the relationship between internet advertising video type and the health communication.

The purpose of this study is to build a theoretical framework to explain Korean domestic tourists’ decision-making process under COVID-19 by applying an extended model of goal-directed behavior. The role of positive expectation of COVID-19, the effect of mass media, and perception of government policy were considered as new variables in the process of tourism decision-making. The results of this present study show that positive and negative anticipated emotion, positive expectation, and the frequency of past behavior positively influence the desire for travel domestically within the next three months, while the effect of mass media negatively affected the desire for travel domestically within the next three months. Two anticipated emotions and positive expectations were positive antecedents of the desire for travel domestically within this year. The anticipated emotions and the effect of mass media affected the desire to travel domestically next year. The results of this tourist’s decision-making research will offer government, the tourism sector, and policy decision-makers better insights for establishing tourism policy responses and create safe destinations to help an adequate recovery and development of the tourism industry.

Purpose<br/> Research has pointed towards the emotional component of decisions contributing to the wastage of food at the end of the supply chain. The present study reviews food wastage literature to reveal the role of emotions with respect to regulation, reduction and prevention of food wastage among consumers.<br/> Research methodology<br/> The study is literature-driven and seeks to uncover latent emotional motives underlying the actions leading to the wastage of food. It utilises previous studies in the fields of consumption emotions, food wastage, pro-environmental behaviour and sustainability to offer unconventional research propositions that underline the interplay of these variables.<br/> Findings<br/> Based upon the literature, the paradoxical nature of anticipated emotions' influence was considered and confirmed. The findings suggest that the anticipation of experiencing positive emotions due to desires of being recognised as a good provider or expressing one's affection may lead to actions that contribute to increased wastage, while anticipating that a negative affect experience may create a positive outcome with regard to food wastage.<br/> Limitations<br/> The majority of prior research, related to the relevance of emotions for food wastage behaviour, has focused on negative emotions, leaving a perceptible dearth of insights about the role of positive emotions.<br/> Contributions<br/> The study builds a novel narrative of how emotions channelise behaviour concerning food wastage, and proffers an argument for a more rigorous examination of emotions, both positive and negative, anticipated in a situation leading to food wastage at the stage of consumption. It also identifies potential avenues for research into emotions related to food wastage.

Service firms continually seek innovative ways to meet customer needs while improving efficiencies. Self-service technologies (SSTs) (i.e., ATM, self-service checkouts in supermarkets, and self-check-in at airports) have offered solutions that enable such benefits. Unfortunately, while SSTs can provide tremendous benefits for services, they also inevitably fail. SST failures present a unique challenge to service firms because problems generally happen without the presence of service personnel. To counter this problem, a different form of recovery has emerged – SST-based recovery, which refers to SST-facilitated recovery in which customers fix the SST failure by themselves, using a self-service technological interface (e.g., help-guide, virtual onscreen assistant, autonomous robot, chatbot). SST-based recovery is a highly suitable recovery solution for the SST context where service personnel availability is often limited. SST-based recovery also introduces a very different kind of service experience to the traditional employee-led recovery (i.e., increased customer responsibility, highly technological-based, low employee presence), therefore it is difficult to apply the knowledge from the existing service recovery literature in traditional contexts to the SST-based recovery context. This form of recovery has also received limited attention from marketing scholars despite the growing importance of it to service managers. Thus, more research with a specific focus on SST-based recovery is required to provide a better understanding of this form of recovery. Centred on SST-based recovery, this thesis contributes to the current literature by improving the understanding of customer response to SST-based recovery. It provides a framework for the way in which customers’ perception of the SST-based recovery shapes their intentions towards the recovery option. The thesis consists of three self-contained, but interrelated, papers. In paper 1, a conceptual framework is presented, which extends the stress and coping theory to delineate the process of customer cognitive appraisal and its role in shaping customer intention towards using SST-based recovery. Specifically, the framework proposes failure appraisal and recovery appraisal as two components of the customer cognitive appraisal process. The framework also puts a specific focus on customer emotions, which are posited to result from failure appraisal and directly influence intentions towards SST-based recovery. Finally, relevant individual characteristics that influence customer failure and recovery appraisals are also identified and discussed. Managerial implication and an agenda for future research are provided in the paper. Building on the conceptual development in paper 1, paper 2 takes a narrower focus and empirically tests a model of customer intentions to use SST-based recovery, as a result of the customer’s perceived control and risk. Drawing on control theory, perceived control is proposed to be a key factor in customers’ decision towards using SST-based recovery. The central proposition is that customers who perceive a heightened level of control towards the SST-based recovery believe that they can exert power over the process and outcome of SST-based recovery, and will show a greater intention towards the recovery option. Furthermore, when customers believe that they have control over the SST-based recovery, this reduces perceived risk, which, in turn, increases intentions to use the SST-based recovery process. Results from an online panel database provides support for the research model. The theoretical and managerial implications of this study are discussed. Consistent with paper 2, paper 3 further explores the role of perceived control as a key factor in a customer’s decision to use SST-based recovery. The findings from paper 2 are expanded on through an investigation of the dual impact of personal control, a state of being, and the contextual circumstance of perceived control of the SST recovery process. Drawing on learned helplessness theory, the study’s proposition is that customers who have a low degree of personal control will exhibit a low perception of control towards SST-based recovery; the opposite is true for individuals with a high degree of personal control. In turn, the customer’s perception of control over SST-based recovery will have a positive impact on efficiency and positive anticipated emotions associated with SST-based recovery, both of which ultimately drive customer intention towards the recovery option. The empirical results support the research model. By investigating both the antecedent and the impact of perceived control of SST-based recovery, this paper enriches understanding of this essential concept in the SST recovery context. Additionally, the identification of personal control as an important predictor of customer perception of control towards SST-based recovery provides the first step in the application of individual difference variables that can aid SST managers in managing customer perception in the SST recovery domain. The collected data were analysed through SPSS, PROCESS, and SmartPLS. The empirical results provided by paper 2 and 3 indicate that perceived control, risk, efficiency and positive emotions have a direct impact on customer intentions towards using SST-based recovery. Perceived risk, efficiency, and positive emotions demonstrate mediating effects on the relationship between perceived control and intentions towards using SST-based recovery. Additionally, personal control exhibits a positive effect on perceived control. Overall, the conceptual framework (paper 1) together with the empirical results (paper 2 and 3) unravel the processes by which SST customers come to their recovery decisions. The research sheds light on the set of variables that shape customer intentions to use SST-based recovery following SST failures and, in particular, the importance of a customer’s perceived control of the SST-based recovery process. The current thesis highlights the need for a customer-focused perspective in explaining customer decision-making on using SST-based recovery. Service firms can utilise the research findings to improve their recovery strategies and derive successful tactics for encouraging customer use of SST-based recovery.
Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, Business School, 2020

Just as there are pathways for negative emotions and behaviors like fear and despair, the brain has networks that accompany positive ones, such as parental behavior, love, and social connectedness. One such system involves the brain hormones oxytocin and vasopressin, which are known to play a critical role in monogamous pair bonding and in both maternal and paternal nurturing behavior. Another is the so-called reward pathway that originates in the brain stem and terminates in the nucleus acumbens. This pathway allows us to anticipate reward and identify risk, and it reinforces pleasurable experiences. Both systems can also be part of aberrant behaviors like prejudice and drug addiction.

AbstractQuality of life (QoL) is a subjective term often determined by various aspects of living, such as personal well-being, health, family, and safety. QoL is challenging to capture objectively but can be anticipated through a person’s emotional state; especially positive emotions indicate an increased QoL and may be a potential indicator for other QoL aspects (such as health, safety). Affective computing is the study of technologies that can quantitatively assess human emotions from external clues. It can leverage different modalities including facial expression, physiological responses, or smartphone usage patterns and correlate them with the person’s life quality assessments. Smartphones are emerging as a main modality, mostly because of their ubiquitous availability and use throughout daily life activities. They include a plethora of onboard sensors (e.g., accelerometer, gyroscope, GPS) and can sense different user activities passively (e.g., mobility, app usage history). This chapter presents a research study (here referred to as the TapSense study) that focuses on assessing the individual’s emotional state from the smartphone usage patterns. In this TapSense study, the keyboard interaction of n = 22 participants was unobtrusively monitored for 3 weeks to determine the users’ emotional state (i.e., happy, sad, stressed, relaxed) using a personalized machine learning model. TapSense can assess emotions with an average AUCROC of 78%(±7% std). We summarize the findings and reflect upon these in the context of the potential developments within affective computing at large, in the long term, indicating a person’s quality of life.

Abstract This book chapter dicsusses the data, methodological strategies, and findings, and the final section concludes with a discussion of key policy implications and directions for future research regarding climate change, livelihoods, and domestic violence in Indonesia. This study argues that climate shocks in Indonesia elevate the incidence of domestic violence via their impact on agriculture and agrarian livelihoods. Those relying on agriculture as a primary income source in Indonesia-approximately 41% of the population=suffer when climatic stress diminishes earnings through job loss and reduced crop yields. The impact can reduce food security, especially for subsistence farmers, but also for the broader population when scarcity elevates local food prices. Food already consumes 70% of household budgets for half the population, with rice comprising the largest share-over 25% of total household expenditures for the poorest quintile. Thus, even minor reductions in yields or inflation in local rice markets can have dire effects. These impacts are anticipated to exacerbate social and psychological pressures-stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, substance abuse-commonly associated with domestic and intimate partner violence, which in turn should increase its incidence within affected regions. This study uses data from the Global SPEI database and the NVMS to model the relationship between climate change and domestic violence in Indonesia. It finds that positive and negative deviations from long-term climate averages, when occurring in December-the core month of the Indonesian rice-planting season-increase the incidence of domestic violence in the following year. This relationship likely reflects the negative impact of climate shocks on agricultural sectors and livelihoods, an outcome which aggravates the emotional and psychological preconditions for domestic violence and abuse, disproportionately diminishes women's bargaining power in the household, and reduces women's ability to escape abusive situations. These effects are especially prominent in areas with higher levels of poverty, further illustrating the economic dimension of the causal process.

Childless women often anticipate that they will regret not having children. How does regret play out in terms of childlessness? This chapter examines the feeling of regret through a variety of lenses: Do childless people experience fewer positive emotions and more negative emotions than parents? How does voluntary childlessness differ from involuntary childlessness? How do measures of life satisfaction differ from measures of positive feelings? What do studies of older women looking back on their lives reveal about their regrets? Do parents ever regret having had children? Finally, what are the limitations to allowing the fear of regret to drive our decisions?

The purpose of this study is to examine the influence of experiential marketing on experiential values of young customers and respectively on their satisfaction and word of mouth, intention to pay more and revisit. Primary data were gathered through questionnaires conducted with 489 respondents to examine young customers' experiences in well-known grocery retails in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Structural equation modelling using partial least square (PLS) method results were adequate in terms of reliability and validity. Empirical results revealed that some of strategic experiential modules and service quality perceptions of young customers have positive influences on customer experiences (functional and emotional). This research contributes to shed light on the role of shopping experiences of young retail consumers on experiential values, customer satisfaction, and post-purchase attitudes. It is anticipated that by filling this knowledge gap, strengthening retail-shopping strategies, which require an adjustment in the current business environment, can be developed.

Chapter 3 examines Miłosz’s positive representations of the body, beginning with an interpretation of one of his earliest lyrics, in which the human subject ecstatically identifies with the material world through the rhythm of his blood. In subsequent sections, it discusses his poetic exploration of the bodily dimensions of faith, the emotion of wonder, morality, and the human relation with God. Miłosz finds in the body the most authentic sources of the self, but also of a human connection with the otherworldly divine. In this way, he returns to the central significance of incarnation in Christian thought, with its “crossing” of the symbolically “vertical” and “horizontal” dimensions. In doing so, he also presents religious belief—at least for himself—as instinctive and natural, almost written into the code of the body and blood. Though Miłosz rejects scientifically reductive explanations of religion, his own ideas anticipate some of the most recent theories of the embodied nature of faith.

In New Zealand, climate scientists predict that climate change-induced sea level rise will have an earlier and greater impact on coastal communities than previously anticipated. In Auckland, the “City of Sails,” Aucklanders’ prize the opportunity to sail on the ocean and live near the beach. However, in 2019 Auckland Council released information that by 2060, a projected increase of 50 cm sea level rise would inundate the homes of 43,000 citizens. If citizens are to safeguard their lifestyles, they need to make effective decisions about how and where they choose to live. While artists are not often qualified to disseminate scientific knowledge, they are able to offer artistic comprehension through aesthetic intelligence, experientiality, and the creation of mental imagery. Building on this position, this chapter explores how an art-science exhibition, Blue Radius, deployed a range of sensorial, emotional, and scientific perspectives to imaginatively engage citizens with the phenomena of climate change-induced sea level rise and present relevant scientific information to assist citizens develop informed decision-making skills.

Adolescence is a marked period of many changes both physical and psychological and are generated in the high levels of anxiety and frustration which can affect their academic performance and well-being especially at this time of pandemic. There is evidence of the benefits of Storytelling in education, such as the development of critical thinking, resilience, among others the use of technology and storytelling through the creation of videos to work and promote emotional intelligence in adolescents. PrepaTec Morelia students developed videos My Best Story, to promote positive emotions and emotional intelligence through anticipation, savoring, and reminiscence using the application Stop Motion Studio, SilentFilm Studio and LEGO movie maker. Our population was 240 students of High School enrolled in the class of Tutoring and Wellbeing, semester August-December 2020. Our main goal was to create stop motion videos using different video applications to promote emotional intelligence and positive emotions through savoring "anticipated memory" and reminiscence in the students of PrepaTec Morelia. As a first step, the students made what we call Story_Emotion_Map which consists of two parts: in the first step, students decide on the composition of their video, the characters, the analysis of the feelings experienced as well as any obstacles they have faced. Later, with this information, they wrote the script that should include its beginning, development and end, to later proceed to make the video. After applying an emotional inventory made up of 20 items on a five-point Likert scale, whose responses ranges from 1 (It never happens to me) to 5 (It always happens to me) which assesses mood, joy and optimism, grades of 3.26 were obtained in the initial emotional inventory with standard deviation of 0.57; at the final emotional inventory grades of 4.53 were obtained with a standard deviation of 0.15. Keywords: Reminiscing, Savoring, Storytelling, Emotional Intelligence, Educational Innovation, Higher Education, Adolescence, Stop-Motion Videos

The aim of this study is to investigate the factors that determine employee’s knowledge sharing intention through the perspectives of social capital, emotion and motivation. The impacts of individual factors, namely social capital, enjoyment in and fear for knowledge sharing, sense of belonging and knowledge sharing self-efficacy on employee’s intention to share knowledge with colleagues are examined. In order to test the hypotheses regarding the relationships among aforementioned variables, data were gathered through question forms from 267 employees working at two shopping malls in a province of Turkey. First, confirmatory factor analysis was applied to data on LISREL 8.7 software. Second, the validity of the measurement model was examined and last, anticipated relationships among variables were investigated through path analysis in structural equation modelling. The results stated that fear for sharing knowledge affected intention negatively while enjoyment in sharing knowledge and knowledge sharing self-efficacy affected intention positively. Also, relational capital was not found to impact intention to share knowledge via fear and enjoyment. On the other hand, sense of belonging impacted intention merely through enjoyment in sharing knowledge.

Increased survival of oncology patients brings to attention new aspects of adverse effects due to antineoplastic treatment. Psychiatric disorders, cardiovascular disorders as well as the progressive incidence of multiple primary neoplasia are some of the most common side effects. Aim: Care of the oncology patient undergoes an important period of change, from the management of tumor disease to the multidisciplinary approach, centered on improving the quality of life. Method: We present the case of a 75-year-old patient, whose personal pathological history reveals the presence of a diagnosis of left testicular seminoma, in 1978, for which he received radiochemical therapy. An oncological patient under long-term medical supervision for several decades is diagnosed in November 2017 with urothelial carcinoma, infiltrative, invasive in his own muscle patch, pT2NxMx. Approximately 40 years later, the second neoplastic site, the malignant bladder tumor, appears. Facing this diagnosis, the patient becomes anxious, anticipates catastrophic consequences, isolates himself. The family and friends support is essential in these moments, the patient tries cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy, as well as various relaxation techniques, which have positive results for the patient attitude towards the disease. He admits, to complete staging, to follow the recommendations of the oncologist, perform proton emission tomography, which detects the presence of two lesions on the right lung. In January 2018, the surgical intervention is done by straight thoracotomy, atypical upper lobe resection and inferior lobectomy is performed. The histopathological and immunohistochemical results describe the presence of the third primary adenocarcinoma neoplasia. The initial emotional reaction is one of anger, denial, followed by demoralization, easy crying, sadness. The patient is examined by the psychiatrist, thus receiving the diagnosis of a severe depressive episode without psychotic symptoms. He follows an anxiolytic, antidepressant, sedative treatment but continues also the cognitive-behavioral therapy. The patient shows good compliance with psychopharmacological treatment and accepts adjuvant chemotherapy courses, which are well tolerated. Throughout the antineoplastic therapy, there was a close collaboration between the psychiatrist and the oncologist, to avoid drug interactions that could have led to interruption of the treatment. Under the oncology supervision, the patient receives another bad news, in September 2018, the fourth neoplastic localization, the prostatic adenocarcinoma pT2bN0M0, is discovered. In this case, in the presence of the combination of synchronous and methacrone tumors, the patient's psyche is deeply affected, continuing the psychopharmacological treatment. Conclusions: Psychiatric disorders are common among oncological patients, and they may suffer serious impairments in quality of life and treatment compliance, psycho-oncological collaboration being indispensable for the success of antineoplastic treatment.