“…Similarly, Barbanel (2006) termed this kind of concern as caretaker personality disorder and applied it to individuals who devote themselves emotionally, physically, and psychologically to others while leaving their own needs unfulfilled. Research findings suggest that pathological concern is significantly positively associated with egocentric motivations, silencing of the self, attachment insecurities, imbalanced forms of relational entitlement, low self-esteem, low life satisfaction, negative emotionality and covert narcissism (Shavit & Tolmacz, 2014;Friedemann, Tolmocz & Doron, in press). …”