care-worthy

comparative more care-worthy · superlative most care-worthy · alternative careworthy

1. Worthy or deserving of care.

   I am on the edge of manhood and you should know it. I have been child to you long enough. If I find my uncle care-worthy I have a right to care for him.

   1930, Hugh Walpole, “The Sea—Father and Son”, in Rogue Herries: A Novel, London: Macmillan and Co., […], →OCLC, part I (The Cuckoo Is Not Enclosed), page 186

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   These styles or dimensions reflect characteristic patterns of how people view themselves as love- or care-worthy and whether they believe their partners to be available, consistent, and responsive.

   2008, Jennifer G. La Guardia, “On the Role of Psychological Needs in Healthy Functioning: […]”, in Joanne V. Wood, Abraham Tesser, John G. Holmes, editors, The Self and Social Relationships, New York, N.Y.; Hove, East Sussex: Psychology Press, →ISBN, part I (Self-Related Motives Influence Close Relationships), page 35

   If children come to think of themselves as care-worthy, other people as supportive and responsive, and relationships as positive experiences, as a result of having sensitive mothers, [John] Bowlby suggested that this positive model will influence their later relationships in a healthy way.

   2012, Ronald Comer, Elizabeth Gould, Nancy Ogden, Mike Boyes, “Infancy”, in Psychology Around Us, Canadian edition, Missisauga, Ont.: John Wiley & Sons Canada, →ISBN, chapter 3 (Human Development), page 87