TY - JOUR AU - Nakagawa, Seishu AU - Sugiura, Motoaki AU - Sekiguchi, Atsushi AU - Kotozaki, Yuka AU - Miyauchi, Carlos Makoto AU - Hanawa, Sugiko AU - Araki, Tsuyoshi AU - Sakuma, Atsushi AU - Kawashima, Ryuta PY - 2019 DA - 2019/11/04 TI - The pitfall of empathic concern with chronic fatigue after a disaster in young adults JO - BMC Psychiatry SP - 338 VL - 19 IS - 1 AB - Empathic concern (EC) is an important interpersonal resilience factor that represents positive adaptation, such as “relating to others” (a factor of posttraumatic growth [PTG]) after disaster. However, controversy exists regarding whether the changes in EC (e.g., the intra-personal change between the acute phase and the disillusionment phase) positively or negatively affect mental health after a disaster. We hypothesized that increased EC may increase chronic fatigue due to over-adjustment (hypothesis 1). We also hypothesized that increasing the changes in “relating to others” could decrease the changes in chronic fatigue (hypothesis 2). SN - 1471-244X UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-019-2323-0 DO - 10.1186/s12888-019-2323-0 ID - Nakagawa2019 ER -