Tailoring psychosocial interventions to the individual's health information-processing style: The influence of monitoring versus blunting in cancer risk and disease.

2001 ◽  
pp. 343-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne M. Miller ◽  
Carolyn Y. Fang ◽  
Michael A. Diefenbach ◽  
Christina B. Bales
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Cancer Risk ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Psychosocial Interventions ◽  
Processing Style

Means-end analysis: Does the affective state influence information processing style?

2004 ◽  
Vol 21 (9) ◽  
pp. 715-737 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Huber ◽  
Suzanne C. Beckmann ◽  
Andreas Herrmann
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Affective State ◽  
Processing Style

scholarly journals Life Management Strategies as Mediators Between Information Processing Style and Subjective Well-Being

SAGE Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 215824402096280
Author(s):  
Maysam Shirzadifard ◽  
Ehsan Shahghasemi ◽  
Elaheh Hejazi ◽  
Shima Aminipour
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Satisfaction With Life ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Significant Proportion ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Processing Style ◽  
Processing Styles ◽  
Life Management

This study investigates the mediating role of life management strategies to see how information processing styles indirectly influence subjective well-being. Participants were 440 university students (female = 202, male = 238) ranging in age from 18 to 50 years from all levels and all majors from universities in Quchan, Iran. In a nonexperimental design and by using path analysis, we found that selection, optimization, and compensation fully mediated the relationship between information processing styles and subjective well-being. Our proposed model fitted well to the data and could account for a significant proportion of variance in satisfaction with life, positive affects, and negative affects’ scores (42%, 51%, and 35%, respectively). These results provide empirical evidence that rational information processing style is a defining factor for planning, and its impact on subjective indicators of well-being operates indirectly and through life management strategies. This model, with a more active approach, has implications for both theory and practice in psychotherapy.

Internet use is associated with utilization of genetic counseling for BRCA 1/2 mutations in women with a family history of breast or ovarian cancer

2006 ◽  
Vol 24 (18_suppl) ◽  
pp. 10654-10654 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Armstrong ◽  
S. Gray ◽  
S. Domchek
Keyword(s):  
Ovarian Cancer ◽  
Genetic Counseling ◽  
Family History ◽  
Cancer Risk ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Internet Use ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Frequent Use ◽  
Brca 1 ◽  
History Of

10654 Background: Women obtain breast cancer risk information from a variety of sources including mass media, the internet and personal and professional sources. Little is know about how internet use for health information influences choices about breast cancer risk evaluation and decision making. Methods: Case control study of 408 women with a family history of breast or ovarian cancer, of whom 217 underwent genetic counseling for BRCA 1/2 testing (cases) and 191 women who did not (controls). Participants received primary care within a large health system in greater Philadelphia, PA. Results: Women with a family history of breast or ovarian cancer who reported frequent use of the internet for health information (>1–2 times a month) were significantly more likely to undergo genetic counseling for BRCA 1/2 testing than women that rarely used the internet to obtain health information (<2 times a year) (odds ratio 2.6; 95% CI 1.7–4.0). This association persisted after adjustment for age, race, education and Gail risk (adjusted odds ratio 2.1; 95% CI 1.05–4.2) Conclusions: Frequent use of the internet for health care information is associated with higher use of genetic counseling for BRCA 1/2 mutations in women with a family history of breast or ovarian cancer. The association can not be explained by differences in education, cancer risk, age or race. A possible hypothesis for this association is that internet use exposes women to more information about genetic testing, BRCA testing opportunities and the experiences of other women who have utilized BRCA counseling services. No significant financial relationships to disclose.

scholarly journals How Mood States Affect Information Processing During Facial Emotion Recognition: An Eye Tracking Study

2011 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
pp. 223-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petra C. Schmid ◽  
Marianne Schmid Mast ◽  
Dario Bombari ◽  
Fred W. Mast ◽  
Janek S. Lobmaier
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Eye Movements ◽  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Recognition Performance ◽  
Recognition Task ◽  
Global Processing ◽  
Local Processing ◽  
Processing Style ◽  
Happy Mood ◽  
Sad Mood

Existing research shows that a sad mood hinders emotion recognition. More generally, it has been shown that mood affects information processing. A happy mood facilitates global processing and a sad mood boosts local processing. Global processing has been described as the Gestalt-like integration of details; local processing is understood as the detailed processing of the parts. The present study investigated how mood affects the use of information processing styles in an emotion recognition task. Thirty-three participants were primed with happy or sad moods in a within-subjects design. They performed an emotion recognition task during which eye movements were registered. Eye movements served to provide information about participants’ global or local information processing style. Our results suggest that when participants were in a happy mood, they processed information more globally compared to when they were in a sad mood. However, global processing was only positively and local processing only negatively related to emotion recognition when participants were in a sad mood. When they were in a happy mood, processing style was not related to emotion recognition performance. Our findings clarify the mechanism that underlies accurate emotion recognition, which is important when one is aiming to improve this ability (i.e., via training).

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