Related Experiment Video
Updated: Jun 15, 2026
06:25
A Real-Time Interactive System for Studying Confrontational Pursuit Behavior in Rodents
Published on: May 16, 2025
Hoping and waiting for rescue: Concepts, scale development and process.
Paul Gilbert1,2, Jaskaran Basran1,2, Ptarmigan Plowright1,2
1Centre for Compassion Research and Training, College of Health, Psychology and Social Care, University of Derby, Derby, UK.
Psychology and Psychotherapy
|March 28, 2025
Summary
Many people struggle with self-help due to a "hoping and waiting" for rescue mentality, which is linked to poor mental health and social difficulties. This coping style hinders self-reliance and effective problem-solving.
Area of Science:
- Psychology
- Clinical Psychology
- Mental Health Research
Background:
- Difficulty engaging in self-help is common, stemming from helplessness, lack of confidence, or a belief in external rescue.
- The "hoping and waiting" for rescue orientation can be a significant barrier to personal change and well-being.
Purpose of the Study:
- Develop and validate a new self-report scale to measure the "hoping and waiting" for rescue from distressing mental states.
- Investigate the relationship between this orientation and mental health, social functioning, early life experiences, and emotion dysregulation.
Main Methods:
- An 18-item scale was developed based on clinical insights.
- Data were collected online from two UK general population samples (N=445).
- Participants completed measures of emotion dysregulation, reassurance-seeking, depression, anxiety, stress, social relating, and early life experiences.
Main Results:
- Factor analysis identified two key themes: "Hoping and waiting for rescue" and "Self-reliance."
- "Hoping and waiting for rescue" negatively correlated with self-reliance and was associated with parental over-protection, low social safeness, higher reassurance-seeking, and emotion dysregulation.
- Network analysis indicated "hoping and waiting for rescue" as a central node linked to mental health, social relating, and early life experiences.
Conclusions:
- Individuals oriented towards external rescue exhibit lower self-reliance and self-help engagement.
- This coping style is significantly associated with various mental health challenges.
- Clinicians should consider this orientation when clients struggle with self-help, linking it to attachment and emotional processing difficulties.
Related Concept Videos
01:14Scale-Up Processes
The scale-up of microbial fermentation processes is essential in industrial biotechnology, allowing the transition from laboratory-scale experiments to commercial-scale production while aiming to maintain product yield and quality. This process requires meticulous adjustment of equipment design, process parameters, and contamination control strategies to accommodate increasing culture volumes.At the laboratory scale, cultures are typically maintained in 1 to 10-liter glass or autoclavable...
01:17Design Example: Analyzing Capacity Contours for Flood Risk Assessment
Flood risk assessment involves careful planning and analysis to ensure the safety of communities near water retention structures. Capacity contours are a vital tool in this process, as they illustrate the potential spread of water at specific levels in a given area. In the context of building a bund across a small valley, these contours play a critical role in evaluating the safety of nearby residential areas.In this example, the bund is intended to store stormwater in the valley. The engineers...
01:12Modeling and Similitude
Scaled modeling is a fundamental technique in engineering, enabling the study of large and complex systems by creating smaller, manageable replicas that recreate critical characteristics of the original. In hydrology and civil infrastructure, for example, scaled models of dams help analyze water flow, turbulence, and pressure. This method allows for accurate predictions of real-world behavior within a controlled environment, significantly reducing the cost and time involved in full-scale...
01:21Design Example: Creating a Hydraulic Model of a Dam Spillway
Scaled hydraulic models of dam spillways provide a practical way to replicate and study the intricate flow dynamics of these structures. Often built to a 1:15 ratio, these models allow for observing critical water behavior, such as velocity distribution, flow patterns, and energy dissipation.
01:30Typical Model Studies
Fluid mechanics model studies often utilize scaled-down systems to predict fluid behavior in full-scale environments, such as river flows, dam spillways, and structures interacting with open surfaces. Maintaining Froude number similarity in river models is crucial, as it replicates surface flow features like wave patterns and velocities.
01:24Concepts and Prototypes
The human nervous system handles vast amounts of information by translating sensory stimuli into neural impulses, which the brain processes, creating thoughts expressed through language or stored as memories. The brain also synthesizes information from emotions and memories, which significantly influence thoughts and behaviors. This intricate process creates a comprehensive mental picture.
The brain organizes this information using concepts, which are mental categories grouping linguistic data,...
The brain organizes this information using concepts, which are mental categories grouping linguistic data,...