Emotional vulnerability: The focus of transdiagnostic therapy.

2022 ◽  
pp. 13-32
Author(s):  
Ladislav Timulak ◽  
Daragh Keogh
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Vulnerability

‘Manly tears exploded from my eyes, lets feel together brahs’: Emotion and masculinity within an online body building community

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mair Underwood ◽  
Rebecca Olson
Keyword(s):  
Hegemonic Masculinity ◽  
International Community ◽  
Emotion Management ◽  
Body Building ◽  
Emotional Detachment ◽  
Emotional Vulnerability ◽  
Gender Hierarchies ◽  
Building Community

Discussions of crying and love are not what one might expect to find when examining interactions between recreational bodybuilders online. Gendered emotion ideologies, especially related to muscular masculinities, usually forbid men from exhibiting emotional vulnerability in front of other men, as emotional detachment is one of the ways gender hierarchies are maintained. Building on Connell’s concept of ‘hegemonic masculinity’ and Hochschild’s concept of ‘emotion management’, this article analyses emotional exchanges within an international community of male recreational bodybuilders: fans of Aziz Shavershian, known as ‘Zyzz’. We examine the meaning of emotions within the Zyzz fandom’s local hierarchy of masculinities, the expressive freedoms afforded by the context of their emotional interactions, and the strategies employed by Zyzz and fans to traverse masculine emotion ideologies that usually prevent men from expressing love and affection.

Sex-Specific Link Between Emotional Vulnerability and Poor Weight Control in Cigarette Smokers

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-75
Author(s):  
Samantha G. Farris ◽  
Bailey J. O’Keeffe ◽  
Ana M. Abrantes ◽  
Angelo M. DiBello
Keyword(s):  
Weight Control ◽  
Cigarette Smokers ◽  
Emotional Vulnerability

scholarly journals The Impact of COVID-19 Outbreak on Emotional and Cognitive Vulnerability in Iranian Women With Breast Cancer

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad H. Choobin ◽  
Vida Mirabolfathi ◽  
Bethany Chapman ◽  
Ali Reza Moradi ◽  
Elizabeth A. Grunfeld ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Cancer Diagnosis ◽  
Cognitive Vulnerability ◽  
Emotional Health ◽  
Breast Cancer Diagnosis ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Emotional Impact ◽  
Targeted Interventions ◽  
Emotional Vulnerability ◽  
The Impact

The psychological cost on emotional well-being due to the collateral damage brought about by COVID-19 in accessing oncological services for breast cancer diagnosis and treatment has been documented by recent studies in the United Kingdom. The current study set out to examine the effect of delays to scheduled oncology services on emotional and cognitive vulnerability in women with a breast cancer diagnosis in Iran, one of the very first countries to be heavily impacted by COVID-19. One hundred thirty-nine women with a diagnosis of primary breast cancer answered a series of online questionnaires to assess the current state of rumination, worry, and cognitive vulnerability as well as the emotional impact of COVID-19 on their mental health. Results indicated that delays in accessing oncology services significantly increased COVID related emotional vulnerability. Regression analyses revealed that after controlling for the effects of sociodemographic and clinical variables, women’s COVID related emotional vulnerability explained higher levels of ruminative response and chronic worry as well as poorer cognitive function. This study is the first in Iran to demonstrate that the effects of COVID-19 on emotional health amongst women affected by breast cancer can exaggerate anxiety and depressive related symptoms increasing risks for clinical levels of these disorders. Our findings call for an urgent need to address these risks using targeted interventions exercising resilience.

scholarly journals Emotional Dysregulation Mechanisms in Psychosomatic Chronic Diseases Revealed by the Instability Coefficient

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 673
Author(s):  
Cristina Ciuluvica (Neagu) ◽  
Paolo Amerio ◽  
Ioan Valeriu Grossu
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Chronic Disease ◽  
Chronic Diseases ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Blood Cancer ◽  
Cancer Group ◽  
Emotional Vulnerability ◽  
Breast Cancer Group ◽  
Healthy Persons ◽  
Instability Coefficient

In the present work, we analyzed some emotional mechanisms (emotion dysregulation—ED, negative affect—NA, and emotional vulnerability) involved in chronic diseases by means of an interdisciplinary approach. We started from the conceptualization of emotions as a complex dynamic system that can be investigated and understood within a framework inspired by Chaos Theory. An “instability coefficient” Δ was computed to analyze ED mechanisms, NA, and emotional vulnerability in different disease groups (blood cancer, breast cancer, hypertension) as well as in healthy persons. This coefficient, recently defined by our group, computes the Euclidian distance between the pairs of vectors whose components are similar or reverted items of a test measuring ED. The emotional and somatic systems were considered as two complex dynamical systems in interaction. Due to this interaction, and as a result of the laws of complexity, a small perturbation in an inner state of the emotional system could generate an important reaction in the somatic system in time. The emotional vulnerability reflected by high values of Δ was associated with the chronic disease condition. The differences between illness groups and healthy persons, as well as between the three disease groups in Δ values, were analyzed. The results showed that there were significant differences between the chronic disease groups in Δ values. The most highly significant differences in Δ values were reported between the breast cancer group and the healthy group on one hand and between the breast cancer group and the blood cancer group on the other hand. The less significant differences in Δ values were noticed between the hypertension group and the control group. Δ was significant in predicting ED and NA. Compared to the classical approaches, the original contribution of our research is that these results encourage us to propose this interdisciplinary method of assessment as a challenging, valid tool of investigation and understanding of complex phenomena that occur in the emotional and somatic system.

Self-discrepancies and emotional vulnerability: How magnitude, accessibility, and type of discrepancy influence affect.

1986 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Tory Higgins ◽  
Ronald N. Bond ◽  
Ruth Klein ◽  
Timothy Strauman
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Vulnerability

scholarly journals Training approach-avoidance of smiling faces affects emotional vulnerability in socially anxious individuals

2013 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mike Rinck ◽  
Sibel Telli ◽  
Isabel L. Kampmann ◽  
Marcella L. Woud ◽  
Merel Kerstholt ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Socially Anxious ◽  
Training Approach ◽  
Emotional Vulnerability ◽  
Approach Avoidance

Normativity and emotional vulnerability

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla Bagnoli
Keyword(s):  
Practical Reason ◽  
Moral Agency ◽  
Ethical Behaviour ◽  
Moral Value ◽  
Moral Thinking ◽  
Complex Relation ◽  
Emotional Vulnerability ◽  
Theory Of Value

Are the emotions relevant for the theory of value and normativity? Is there a set of morally correct arrangements of emotions? Current debates are often structured as though there were only two theoretical options to approach these questions, a sentimentalist theory of some sort, which emphasizes the role of emotions in forming ethical behaviour and practical thought, and intellectualist rationalism, which denies that emotions can help at all in generating normativity and contributing to moral value, hence also denying that they may have any role to play in moral agency and moral thinking. In what follows, I will offer a Kantian account of ‘practical reason’ as the seat of moral agency, which recognizes a diversified and complex relation between reason and sensibility.

Israel's Baby: The Horror of Childbirth in the Biblical Prophets

2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Kalmanofsky
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Female Character ◽  
Gender Identification ◽  
Horror Genre ◽  
Emotional Vulnerability ◽  
Graphic Images ◽  
Insight Into

AbstractUsing verbal threats and graphic images of destruction, the biblical prophets employed a rhetoric of horror to terrify their audience. Modern theories about the genre of horror provide insight into the prophets' rhetoric. They elucidate the nature of biblical horror and the objects that provoke horror, as well as the ways texts work to elicit horror from their audience. This paper examines the image of the laboring woman within the context of the prophets' horror rhetoric. This image captures the physical and emotional experience of Israel awaiting Babylonian conquest and conveys the irony and futility of Israel's situation. The image also serves as a strategy of cross-gender identification, common in the horror genre, which asks a predominantly male audience to identify with a female character. This strategy reveals the essential elements of biblical horror—fear and shame—and uses these elements to motivate wayward Israel to repent. By identifying with the birthing woman, Israel will come to recognize its physical and emotional vulnerability, the futility and disgrace of its situation, and strive to reform.

Transient and persistent hypochondriacal worry in primary care

1996 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 575-589 ◽  
Author(s):  
James M. Robbins ◽  
Laurence J. Kirmayer
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Anxiety Disorder ◽  
Physician Visit ◽  
Significant Other ◽  
Attributional Styles ◽  
Emotional Instability ◽  
Primary Care Data ◽  
Emotional Vulnerability ◽  
Bodily Sensations ◽  
Interpersonal Vulnerability

SynopsisWe present a 12-month prospective study of hypochondriacal worry in primary care. Data were obtained from 546 family medicine patients at the time of a physician visit for a new illness and again 1 year later. Patients were divided into four groups based on scores on the Illness Worry Scale: non-hypochondriacal (N = 460), transient hypochondriacal (N = 34); emerging hypochondriacal (N = 21); and persistent hypochondriacal (N = 31). Persistent patients had significantly more serious medical history but no more serious current illness than those low on illness worry. Patients with persistent illness worry were more likely than others to have a diagnosis of major depression or anxiety disorder, were more likely to believe that their most important significant other would pathologize new symptoms, yet were less likely to have been encouraged to see the doctor by them. Patients who became less worried over the year reported corresponding decreases in distress, attentiveness to bodily sensations, emotional vulnerability and pathological symptom attributions. We conclude that depressive or anxiety disorders, fears of emotional instability, pathological symptom attributional styles and interpersonal vulnerability provide the best prognostic evidence for enduring illness worry.

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