scholarly journals CATEGORISATION OF BODILY SENSATIONS IN PATIENTS WITH EXCORIATION DISORDER WITH IMPULSIVE ACTIONS

2020 ◽  
pp. 187-203
Author(s):  
Maria G. Vinogradova ◽  
Anastasia A. Ermusheva
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Symptoms ◽  
Somatic Symptoms ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Bodily Experience ◽  
Personal Significance ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Bodily Sensations ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
Objective Description ◽  
Excoriation Disorder

Relevance. Categorization, being one of the main cognitive processes, is involved in the perception and comprehension of objects with meaning, depending on the personal significance. Exceptional subjectivity of bodily experience makes it important to explore its structuring and mediating with sign through the analysis of bodily sensations categorisation in patients with complaints of pathological bodily sensations. Objective: description of specific characteristic features of categorization of bodily sensations in patients with excoriation disorder with impulsive actions. Methods and Sample. 15 patients with excoriation disorder with impulsive actions (mean age 47±17 years) and 50 patients with depression with somatic symptoms (mean age 42±13 years) took part in the study. They were asked to perform psychosemantic test “Choice of intraceptive sensations descriptors” for describing all bodily sensations and health-related bodily sensations. Results. Patients with excoriation disorder with impulsive actions, when categorizing all bodily sensations and health-related bodily sensations, chose descriptors of actions with the skin and descriptors of negative emotional states. Significant differences were found in the choice of descriptors of emotional states. Their number was less in patients with excoriation disorder with impulsive actions in comparison with patients with depression with somatic symptoms who demonstrated a variety of choices of descriptors of different classes in response to both instructions of the test. Conclusion. Bodily sensations categorisation study allowed to discuss the features of bodily experience in general and health-related bodily experience. In excoriation disorder with impulsive actions the bodily sensations categorisation was characterized by an attribution of actions with skin and emotions to bodily experience. The characteristics of bodily sensations choices in patients from different groups allowed to associate features of bodily sensations categorisation with clinical symptoms of these mental disorders.

scholarly journals Categorization of bodily sensations in psychodermatological disorders

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 75-84
Author(s):  
Anastasia A. Ermusheva ◽  
Marina G. Vinogradova ◽  
Aleksander Sh. Tkhostov
Keyword(s):  
Mental Disorders ◽  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Health Anxiety ◽  
Clinical Manifestations ◽  
Somatic Symptoms ◽  
Bodily Experience ◽  
Method Choice ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Healthy State ◽  
Bodily Sensations

Background. Categorization is one of the cognitive processes that ensure objects definition based on selected key features. Studying the aspects of categorization of bodily sensations allows to investigate the making sense of bodily sensations which seems promising in the context of exploring pathological bodily sensations. Objective: to study the aspects of categorization in psychodermatological disorders. Design. The study involved 113 patients with mental disorders with complaints of pathological bodily sensations (63 patients with psychodermatological disorders: delusional infestation (n = 33), neurotic excoriation (n = 30); 50 patients with depression with somatic symptoms). There were used the “Short Health Anxiety Inventory” and the psychosemantic method “Choice of descriptors of intraceptive sensations” with instructions: to choose bodily sensations of the healthy state, to classify sensations according to their similarity. Results. In psychodermatological disorders, health anxiety was lower in comparison to depression with somatic symptoms. The analysis of bodily sensations categorization of the healthy state revealed a significantly smaller descriptors number from classes of general somatic sensations, dynamics sensations, exteroceptive sensations and pleasant bodily sensations in psychodermatological disorders. In bodily sensations classification two general categories of bodily experience were distinguished: bodily sensations associated with the illness experience and bodily sensations of habitual functioning. Conclusion. Although there were the differences in health-anxiety and specificity of clinical manifestations in patients with mental disorders with complaints of pathological bodily sensations, the comparability of categorical structures of bodily experience was described, which manifested itself in features of general categories of bodily experience in psychodermatological disorders and depression with somatic symptoms.

Assessment of health related issues in individuals’, couples’, and families’ daily life

2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 146-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meinrad Perrez ◽  
Michael Reicherts ◽  
Yves Hänggi ◽  
Andrea B. Horn ◽  
Gisela Michel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Ecological Validity ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Computer Assisted ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Self Reports ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Lower Variability

Abstract. Most research in health psychology is based on retrospective self reports, which are distorted by recall biases and have low ecological validity. To overcome such limitations we developed computer assisted diary approaches to assess health related behaviours in individuals’, couples’ and families’ daily life. The event- and time-sampling-based instruments serve to assess appraisals of the current situation, feelings of physical discomfort, current emotional states, conflict and emotion regulation in daily life. They have proved sufficient reliability and validity in the context of individual, couple and family research with respect to issues like emotion regulation and health. As examples: Regarding symptom reporting curvilinear pattern of frequencies over the day could be identified by parents and adolescents; or psychological well-being is associated with lower variability in basic affect dimensions. In addition, we report on preventive studies to improve parental skills and enhance their empathic competences towards their baby, and towards their partner.

Health-related behaviours and family support and clinical symptoms of BPH: a pilot study from China

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-16
Author(s):  
Hongjing Wang ◽  
Yuan Liang ◽  
Yanhua Li ◽  
Yingsheng Cheng ◽  
Ping Yin
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Family Support ◽  
Clinical Symptoms ◽  
Health Related

scholarly journals Interoceptive sensibility predicts the ability to infer others’ emotional states

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (10) ◽  
pp. e0258089
Author(s):  
Amelie M. Hübner ◽  
Ima Trempler ◽  
Corinna Gietmann ◽  
Ricarda I. Schubotz
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Reaction Times ◽  
Emotional Expressions ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Differential Modulation ◽  
Skin Conductance Responses ◽  
Weak Evidence ◽  
Fearful Expression ◽  
Bodily Sensations ◽  
Response Task

Emotional sensations and inferring another’s emotional states have been suggested to depend on predictive models of the causes of bodily sensations, so-called interoceptive inferences. In this framework, higher sensibility for interoceptive changes (IS) reflects higher precision of interoceptive signals. The present study examined the link between IS and emotion recognition, testing whether individuals with higher IS recognize others’ emotions more easily and are more sensitive to learn from biased probabilities of emotional expressions. We recorded skin conductance responses (SCRs) from forty-six healthy volunteers performing a speeded-response task, which required them to indicate whether a neutral facial expression dynamically turned into a happy or fearful expression. Moreover, varying probabilities of emotional expressions by their block-wise base rate aimed to generate a bias for the more frequently encountered emotion. As a result, we found that individuals with higher IS showed lower thresholds for emotion recognition, reflected in decreased reaction times for emotional expressions especially of high intensity. Moreover, individuals with increased IS benefited more from a biased probability of an emotion, reflected in decreased reaction times for expected emotions. Lastly, weak evidence supporting a differential modulation of SCR by IS as a function of varying probabilities was found. Our results indicate that higher interoceptive sensibility facilitates the recognition of emotional changes and is accompanied by a more precise adaptation to emotion probabilities.

scholarly journals Background Factors Involved in the Epidemiology of Functional Constipation in the Japanese Population

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sayuri Yamamoto ◽  
Wataru Ohashi ◽  
Yoshiharu Yamaguchi ◽  
Shunsuke Inamoto ◽  
Akira Koshino ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Japanese Population ◽  
Elderly Population ◽  
Clinical Symptoms ◽  
Functional Constipation ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Internet Survey ◽  
Comprehensive Management ◽  
History Of ◽  
Characteristic Features

Abstract Background: Little is known about the prevalence and epidemiology of functional constipation (FC), a functional bowel disorder with symptoms of constipation. This study aimed to examine the prevalence, population composition, lifestyle, quality of life, and clinical characteristics of individuals with and without FC and of individuals with a strong or weak awareness of constipation. Methods: An internet survey revealed that 262 (8.7%) out of 3,000 respondents from the general Japanese population were diagnosed with FC. Moreover, all respondents were classified according to their awareness of constipation (i.e. strong or weak), and their characteristic features were compared. Results: FC occurrence was associated with the elderly population, females, and homemakers. Its onset was associated with a change in the frequency of bowel movement, sensation of incomplete or hardly any evacuation, and the use of manual maneuvers, which are consequential clinical symptoms of FC. Subjects with FC also frequently skipped breakfast, had insufficient sleep, had more severe constipation, and had purchased laxatives in pharmacies or online more often than individuals without FC. A strong awareness of constipation was significantly more prevalent among women and homemakers. A history of anemia and cardiovascular disease was significantly more frequent in the strong awareness group, whereas a history of hypertension was more frequent in the weak awareness group.Conclusions: Based on the understanding of the characteristic features of FC, appropriate and comprehensive management considering the patient’s symptoms and lifestyle should be provided.

scholarly journals When strike fails: The role of personal significance and positive expectations in maintaining a commitment to worker protests.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Grzymala-Moszczynska ◽  
Katarzyna Jasko ◽  
Michał Bilewicz ◽  
Tomasz Besta
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Current Paper ◽  
Labor Rights ◽  
Relative Role ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Negative Experiences ◽  
Large Group ◽  
Psychological Mechanisms ◽  
Personal Significance

In the current paper, we address psychological mechanisms predicting commitment to collective action for labor rights. Specifically, we focus on factors that helped maintain engagement in a workers’ cause among participants of a failed teachers’ strike. We examined the relative role of positive and negative experiences and how they related to a sense of personal significance as motivators of further collective action after the failure of a national strike that a large group of teachers participated in. We also compared the effects of experienced emotional states with the effects of expectancy of success. The results suggest that when people experienced a boost in feelings of significance, even if the collective action failed, they were more willing to participate in a future collective action. We also found that expectancy was related to willingness to take part in another strike or other protest actions, which is in line with past studies.

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