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SOURCES – Why Some Conversations Feel So Draining

December 5, 2025 by Ash Kaushik

The following sources were consulted in the preparation of the article “Why Some Conversations Feel So Draining.”

  1. Co-ruminating increases stress hormone levels in women
  2. Emotional Contagion
  3. Adult friendship and wellbeing: A systematic review with practical implications
  4. Empathy Fatigue: How Stress and Trauma Can Take a Toll on You
  5. The Relationships between Co-Rumination, Social Support, Stress, and Burnout among Working Adults
  6. Perceived autonomy support, friendship maintenance, and happiness
  7. Compassion Fatigue
  8. Relationships between emotional labor, job burnout, and emotional intelligence: an analysis combining meta-analysis and structural equation modeling
  9. Emotional labour and emotional exhaustion: Interpersonal and intrapersonal mechanisms
  10. Emotional labour, emotional regulation strategies, and secondary traumatic stress: a cross-sectional study of allied mental health professionals in the UK
  11. The Effect of Emotional Labor on the Physical and Mental Health of Health Professionals: Emotional Exhaustion Has a Mediating Effect
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