title: Feeling misunderstood: a concept analysis.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Feeling misunderstood.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The purpose of this study was to analyze the concept of feeling misunderstood to explicate the antecedents, attributes, and consequences of this phenomenon.
  
  
  METHODS
  A comprehensive review of literature, from 1957 to 2005, was completed with the keywords feeling misunderstood to guide the search.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Three defining attributes of feeling misunderstood were identified: (a) disquietude; (b) discordant perceptions; and (c) heightened cognizance of emotions. Antecedents, including presence of an issue, communication barrier, and unexpected response from receiver, are explicated, along with the consequences, or transformations in behavior.
authors.affiliation: South Dakota State University, College of Nursing, SD, USA. barb.condon@briarcliff.edu
authors.forename: Barbara Backer
authors.initials: BB
authors.lastname: Condon
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D001294:Attitude to Health; D001364:Awareness; D003071:Cognition; D003144:Communication Barriers; D032882:Comprehension; D003210:Concept Formation; D004644:Emotions; D004645:Empathy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016294:Models, Nursing; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D015404:Nursing Methodology Research; D036301:Qualitative Research; D012650:Self Disclosure