Self-affirmation breaks the link between the behavioral inhibition system and the threat-potentiated startle response.

Emotion ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrienne Crowell ◽  
Elizabeth Page-Gould ◽  
Brandon J. Schmeichel
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Inhibition ◽  
Startle Response ◽  
Behavioral Inhibition System

A Confirmatory Factor Analytic Study of Anxiety, Fear, and Behavioral Inhibition System Measures

2007 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 179-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew J. Cooper ◽  
Adam M. Perkins ◽  
Philip J. Corr
Keyword(s):  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
Behavioral Inhibition ◽  
Discriminant Validity ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Behavioral Inhibition System ◽  
Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory ◽  
Factor Analytic ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Structural Invariance ◽  
Fear And Anxiety

Abstract. Recent revisions to the reinforcement sensitivity theory (RST) of personality have highlighted the distinction between the emotions of fear and anxiety. These revisions have substantial implications for self-report measurement; in particular, they raise the question of whether separate traits of fear and anxiety exist and, if so, their interrelationship. To address this question, the current study used confirmatory factor analytic procedures to examine the convergent and discriminant validity of measures of trait anxiety, fear, and the behavioral inhibition system (BIS). We also examined measurement and structural invariance across gender in 167 males and 173 females who completed the Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), the Carver and White BIS Scale, and the Fear Survey Schedule (FSS). The findings suggested that trait anxiety and the BIS scale are relatively distinct from Tissue Damage Fear (FSS). Further, the final model showed measurement and structural invariance across gender. The implications of the results for future self-report assessment in RST research are discussed.

scholarly journals Lived experiences of patients on hemodialytic treatment: A discursive perspective on fatigue and motivational issues

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 205510291880976 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Angioletti ◽  
Maurizio Bossola ◽  
Daniela De Filippis ◽  
Michela Balconi
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Inhibition ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Hemodialysis Patients ◽  
Chronic Hemodialysis ◽  
Fatigue Severity Scale ◽  
Behavioral Inhibition System ◽  
Severity Scale ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Activation System ◽  
Fatigue Severity

Fatigue is an incapacitating symptom for patients on chronic hemodialysis treatment. This study explored the relationship between hemodialysis patients’ subjective experience and motivation. The investigation of patients’ narratives and fatigue-related factors was performed by holding semi-structured interviews with 31 hemodialysis patients. Fatigue Severity Scale and Behavioral Inhibition/Activation System questionnaire were used to assess fatigue severity and motivational mechanisms. Results showed significant differences in the use of specific topics and words (such as “family,” “to manage,” “dialysis,” “psychological issues”) depending on high, medium, and low Behavioral Inhibition System, Behavioral Activation System, and Fatigue Severity Scale scores, indicating that hemodialysis patients’ narratives contain keywords related to the motivational sphere.

scholarly journals The Mixed Effect of Role Overload on Extra-Role Performance: The Mediation Role of Behavioral Inhibition System/Behavioral Activation System Responses

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bo Huang ◽  
Lina Ma ◽  
Wei Xia
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Inhibition ◽  
Behavioral Activation ◽  
Job Crafting ◽  
Role Overload ◽  
Behavioral Inhibition System ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Role Performance ◽  
Mixed Effect ◽  
Member Exchange ◽  
Time Lagged

The findings of existing studies of how role overload affects employees’ performance in organizations have been mixed and controversial. We draw on the hindrance–challenge framework to suggest that role overload contains both hindrance and challenge stressor components. We integrate this theory with the behavioral inhibition and behavioral activation systems (BIS and BAS) perspective to develop hypotheses about the effects of role overload on employees’ extra-role performance (voice). We suggest that although role overload is positively associated with withdrawal (a prototypical response of the BIS system) and ultimately negatively influences extra-role performance, it can also trigger job crafting (a prototypical response of the BAS system) and is, consequently, positively associated with extra-role performance. We further posit that the strength of these indirect effects is moderated by the quality of leader–member exchange (LMX). To support these hypotheses, we conducted a time-lagged study of 450 full-time pre-school teachers from various Chinese kindergartens. As hypothesized, we found that withdrawal and job crafting mediated the relationship between role overload and extra-role performance. Further, LMX strengthens the positive relationship between role overload and job crafting. Taken together, our results suggest that role overload can be a mixed stressor that activates both negative and positive behaviors, thus ultimately having an impact on extra-role performance.

scholarly journals Changes of EEG band oscillations to tonic cold pain and the behavioral inhibition and fight-flight-freeze systems

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vilfredo De Pascalis ◽  
Paolo Scacchia ◽  
Beatrice Papi ◽  
Philip J. Corr
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Inhibition ◽  
Escape Behavior ◽  
Behavioral Approach ◽  
Gamma Activity ◽  
Subjective Perception ◽  
Beta Activity ◽  
Behavioral Inhibition System ◽  
Cold Pain ◽  
Beta Power ◽  
Delta Activity

Abstract Using electroencephalography (EEG) power measures within conventional delta, theta, alpha, beta, and gamma bands, the aims of the current study were to highlight cortical correlates of subjective perception of cold pain (CP) and the associations of these measures with behavioral inhibition system (BIS), fight-flight-freeze system (FFFS), and behavioral approach system personality traits. EEG was recorded in 55 healthy right-handed women under (i) a white noise interruption detection condition (Baseline); (ii) enduring CP induced by the cold cup test. CP and Baseline EEG band power scores within conventional frequency bands served for covariance analyses. We found that: (1) higher Pain scorers had higher EEG beta power changes at left frontal, midline central, posterior temporal leads; (2) higher BIS was associated with greater EEG delta activity changes at parietal scalp regions; (3) higher FFFS was associated with higher EEG delta activity changes at temporal and left-parietal regions, and with lower EEG gamma activity changes at right parietal regions. High FFFS, compared to Low FFFS scorers, also showed a lower gamma power across the midline, posterior temporal, and parietal regions. Results suggest a functional role of higher EEG beta activity in the subjective perception of tonic pain. EEG delta activity underpins conflict resolution system responsible for passive avoidance control of pain, while higher EEG delta and lower EEG gamma activity changes, taken together, underpin active avoidance system responsible for pain escape behavior.

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