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Expected Death Trajectory: Negative and Positive Commentary.
| Epistemic Commentary | Affective Commentary | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Focus | Positive | Negative | Positive | Negative | Total |
| Patient | 3 | 10 | 13 | ||
| Self | 28 | 4 | 25 | 31 | 88 |
| Situation | 2 | 14 | 16 | ||
| Dyadic relationship | 2 | 2 | |||
| Medical | 1 | 7 | 2 | 10 | |
| Social: family, friends, groups | 11 | 4 | 15 | ||
| Religion | 4 | 4 | |||
| Total | 31 | 4 | 52 | 61 | 148 |
Note. Epistemic positive: Epistemic negative 31:4 = 2.9:1. Affective negative: Affective positive: 61:52 = 1.2:2.
