Personality Traits and Decision on Breast Reconstruction in Women after Mastectomy

2016 ◽  
Vol 88 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Halina Miśkiewicz ◽  
Bogusław Antoszewski ◽  
Aleksandra Iljin
Keyword(s):  
Breast Reconstruction ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Reconstructive Surgery ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Sense Of Security ◽  
Reconstructive Option ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Undergo Breast Reconstruction

AbstractThe aim of the study was evaluation of the correlation between selected personality traits in women after mastectomy and their decision on breast reconstruction.Material and methods. The study was conducted between 2013‑2015, in the Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Medical University of Lodz, and Department of Oncological and Breast Surgery, CZMP. Comparative analysis comprised 40 patients, in whom mastectomy and breast reconstruction was done, and 40 women after breast amputation, who did not undergo reconstructive surgery. Basing on self-constructed questionnaire, five features of personality were evaluated in these women: pursue of success in life, ability to motivate others, openness to other people, impact of belonging to a social group on sense of security and the importance of opinion of others about the respondent. Apart from the questionnaire, in both groups of women a psychologic tool was used (SUPIN S30 and C30 tests) to determine the intensity of positive and negative emotions.Results. Women who did not choose the reconstructive option were statistically significantly older at mastectomy than women who underwent breast reconstruction. There were statistically significant differences between both groups in response to question on being open to other people and value of other people’s opinion. The differences in responses to question on the impact of belonging to a social group on personal sense of safety were hardly statistically significant. In psychometric studies there were significant differences in responses to SUPIN C30 test for negative emotions and S-30 for positive emotions. The level of negative emotions - feature of group A was in 47.5% in the range of high scores and in 47.5% within low and low-average scores. Among women from group B 57.5% had high scores, while 37.5% low and average scores. There were significant differences in the results of positive emotions evaluation in S-30. Women who did not undergo breast reconstruction usually had high scores, while those who decided on reconstructive surgery usually had low scores and low-high scores.Conclusions. 1. The decision on breast reconstruction after mastectomy is connected with personality features of patients. Introvert women, who base their self-opinion on opinion of others and their sense of security on belonging to a social group, rarely choose to undergo breast reconstruction. 2. Younger patients after mastectomy more frequently choose the breast reconstructive option. 3. A special algorithm of medical and psychological care in patients after mastectomy should be created to improve their further quality of life.

scholarly journals EXAMINING HOW POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE EMOTIONS INFLUENCE COGNITIVE PERFORMANCE IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS

2020 ◽  
pp. 255-267
Author(s):  
Sonya Yakimova ◽  
◽  
Célia Maintenant ◽  
Anne Taillandier-Schmitt ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Academic Performance ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Cognitive Performance ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
School Context ◽  
Dropping Out ◽  
French Version ◽  
The Impact

Few studies have examined the impact of emotions on cognitive (not only academic) performance among adolescents and this is the objective of our research. After ethic committee agreement andparents’ authorization, we asked 158 adolescents in secondary schools to respond to the French version of Differential Emotion Scale adapted for school context and to nineteensyllogisms which evaluated cognitive nonacademic performances. As results, we expected that negative emotions related to academic achievement would reduce performance in reasoning and positive emotions would improve it. Our hypotheses were partially validated. The impacts of the results as well as perspectives of future researches in relation with self-esteem, psychological disengagement, dropping out of school were discussed.

Who is Setting Emotions? A Comparative Study on Emotion Diffusion in Social Media among Public, Government and Media during the COVID-19 Pandemic in China (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuhuan Zhou ◽  
Yi Wang
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Information Exchange ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Time Point

BACKGROUND During the COVID-19 outbreak, social media served as the main platform for information exchange, through which the Chinese government, media and public would spread information. At the same time, a variety of emotions interweave, and the public emotions would also be affected by the government and media. OBJECTIVE This study aims to investigate the types, trends and relationships of emotional diffusion in Chinese social media among the public, the government and the media under the pandemic of COVID-19 (December 30,2019, to July 1,2020) . METHODS In this paper, Python 3.7.0 and its data crawling framework Scrapy 1.5.1 are used to write a web crawler program to search for super topics related to COVID-19 on Sina Weibo platform of different keywords . Then, we used emotional lexicon to analyze the types and trends of the public, government and media emotions on social media. Finally cross-lagged regression was applied to build the relationships of different subjects’ emotions. RESULTS The highlights of our study are threefold: (1) The public, the government and the media mainly diffuse positive emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic in China; (2) Emotional diffusion shows a certain change over time, and negative emotions are obvious in the initial phase of the pandemic, with the development of the pandemic, positive emotions surpass negative emotions and remain stable. (3)The impact among the three main emotions with the period as the time point is weak, while the impact of emotion with the day as the time point is relatively obvious. The emotions of the public and the government impact each other, and the media emotions can guide the public emotions. CONCLUSIONS This is the first study of comparing pubic, government and media emotions on the social media during COVID-19 pandemic in China. The pubic, the government and the media mainly diffuse positive emotions during the pandemic. And the government and the media have better effect on short-term emotional guidance. Therefore, when the pandemic suddenly occurs, the government and the media should intervene in time to solve problems and conflicts and diffuse positive and neutral emotions. In this regard, the government and the media can play important roles through social media in the major outbreaks. At the theoretical level, this paper takes China's epidemic environment and social media as the background to provide one of the explanatory perspectives for the spread of emotions on social media. At the some time, because of this special background, it can provide comparison and reference for the research on internet emotions in other countries.

Displays of emotion and citizen support for Merkel and Gysi

2017 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 80-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oscar W. Gabriel ◽  
Lena Masch
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Individual Recognition ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Support ◽  
The Public ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
The Impact

Emotional appeals have always been an important instrument in the mobilization of political support in modern societies. As found in several experimental studies from the United States, the emotions displayed by leading politicians in their televised public appearances have an impact on the political attitudes and behaviors of the public. Positive emotions such as joy or happiness, pride, and amusement elicit a more positive assessment of politicians, whereas showing negative emotions such as anger or outrage often diminishes the public’s support. This transfer of emotions from sender to recipient has been described as “emotional contagion.” However, under specific circumstances, emotions expressed by politicians can result in counter-empathic reactions among recipients. To examine the role of emotions between political leaders and the public in an institutional and cultural setting outside the United States, this article presents experimental findings on the impact of emotions expressed by two leading German politicians on the German public. The study used emotional displays by Chancellor Angela Merkel and former parliamentary leader of the Left Party, Gregor Gysi, observing how their assessments by the German public changed in response to these displays. Consistent with existing research, we discovered positive effects on the evaluation of both politicians when they displayed positive emotions. However, the impact of negative emotions is different for Merkel and Gysi and can be described as contagion in the former and counter-contagion in the latter case. Furthermore, we found that individual recognition of the expressed emotions modified the effect they had on the evaluation of some leadership characteristics.

ASSOCIATION BETWEEN PERSONALITY TRAITS AND ATTENDING A FITNESS CENTER

2007 ◽  
Vol 35 (10) ◽  
pp. 1323-1324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lily Shui-Lien Chen ◽  
Yung-Hsin Lee
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Five Factor Model ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Design Strategy ◽  
Openness To Experience ◽  
Measurement Scale ◽  
High Tendency ◽  
Fitness Center

The sports and recreation industry is emerging in Taiwan. Few related studies have used it as a sample. This study has been designed to explore the notion of personality traits based on fitness center members in Taiwan. Because of its validity and wide use (Furnham, Moutafi, & Crump, 2003), the Five Factor Model (FFM) developed by McCrae and John (1992) is adopted in this study to assess the personality of fitness center members. The measurement scale of personality traits is cited from Saucier's (1994) Mini-Markers. The empirical findings reveal that those people with low tendency to experience negative emotions, i.e., neuroticism, and high tendency to experience positive emotions, i.e., extroversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness, will join the fitness center. Sports and recreation industry managers can design strategy to satisfy their customer needs based on these findings.

Satisfaction with Life and Social Factors in Decision-Making Proces on Breast Reconstruction in Women after Mastectomy

2016 ◽  
Vol 88 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Halina Miśkiewicz ◽  
Bogusław Antoszewski ◽  
Ewa Woźniak ◽  
Aleksandra Iljin
Keyword(s):  
Breast Reconstruction ◽  
Reconstructive Surgery ◽  
Satisfaction With Life ◽  
Aesthetic Surgery ◽  
Potential Effect ◽  
Satisfaction With Life Scale ◽  
Breast Diseases ◽  
Statistical Parameters ◽  
Level Of Satisfaction ◽  
Undergo Breast Reconstruction

Abstractwas to analyse the correlation between satisfaction with life in women after mastectomy and motivation to undergo breast reconstruction, compared to women who after breast amputation did not decide to undergo reconstructive treatment.Comparative analysis comprised patients after mastectomy, who decided on breast reconstruction (40) and those who did not undergo reconstructive surgery (40). The study was conducted in the Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Medical University of Lodz and Department of Oncological surgery and Breast Diseases ICZMP, Łódź, between 2013-2015. In the study the question whether higher satisfaction with life prompts decision on breast reconstruction was investigated. The Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) was used, as well as an original questionnaire. The correlations between statistical parameters were evaluated using the chi-square test.We have demonstrated differences between the level of satisfaction with life in patients who decided to undergo breast reconstruction and those who did not choose reconstructive surgery. The discrepancies may reflect differences in the system of values and level of satisfaction with life before reconstructive treatment and also point to potential effect of these factors on the decision to undergo surgery.1. Differences in cognitive structures between ‘Amazons’ determine the decision on reconstructive treatment. 2. Transfer of information between the therapeutic team and women after mastectomy is not satisfactory. 3. Higher level of satisfaction with life has a positive effect on the decision of breast reconstruction.

The impact of tourists' emotions on satisfaction and destination loyalty – an integrative moderated mediation model: tourists' experience in Switzerland

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 509-528 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samaan Al‐Msallam
Keyword(s):  
Structural Equation ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Perceived Quality ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Destination Loyalty ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of tourists' emotional responses toward a particular destination on tourists' satisfaction and destination loyalty. Perceived quality adds as a moderator variable.Design/methodology/approachThis study adopted a quantitative data collection method, with distributing the questionnaire to 346 tourists of 43 nationalities in four main tourist attractions in Switzerland. The structural equation modeling approach and bootstrapping technique were used to empirically test the study hypotheses.FindingsThe results confirm the negative impact of negative emotions. The mediating role of the tourists' satisfaction was documented. As expected, perceived quality dampened the negative effect of negative emotions on tourists' satisfaction. However, surprisingly, it does not serve as a moderator in the relationship between positive emotions and tourists' satisfaction.Practical implicationsThis study resulted in a set of practical marketing recommendations. Tourism marketers are encouraged to keep positive emotions high among tourists, aimed to increase their satisfaction toward the destination and revisit it again in the future and also, pay more attention to the quality of the destination as an essential tool to reduce the impact of negative emotions.Originality/valueMany studies in tourism literature studied associations between positive emotions and tourists' behavior. The present study is drawing more attention to negative emotions. In addition, this study tries to address the gap in the tourism literature regarding the modified impact of perceived quality on the relationship between emotions and tourists' satisfaction.

scholarly journals The mediating effect of consumers’ price level perception and emotions towards supermarkets

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Celil Cakici ◽  
Sena Tekeli
Keyword(s):  
Purchase Intention ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Price Level ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Price Sensitivity ◽  
Theoretical Construct ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Price Perception ◽  
The Impact

PurposeThis study aims to reveal the impact of consumers’ price sensitivity on their purchase intention within the scope of supermarkets. Besides, the study aims to examine the impact of consumers’ price sensitivity on their price perception level and emotions and the impact of consumers’ price level perception and emotions toward supermarkets on their purchase intention. It also aims to detect the mediating effects of consumers’ price level perception and emotions toward supermarkets between their price sensitivity and purchase intention.Design/methodology/approachThe quota sampling method was used to form the study sample. The population was 20–69-year-old consumers. The study sample included 513 consumers, 276 of whom were men, and 237 of whom were women. Data were collected via a questionnaire by the researchers in Mersin’s (Turkey) five central counties. Explanatory and confirmatory factor analyses and structural equation models were used to analyze data.FindingsConsumers’ price sensitivity, perception of cheapness, perception of expensiveness and positive emotions toward supermarkets affect their purchase intention. Besides, price sensitivity affects their perception of cheapness while it does not affect their perception of expensiveness. It influences negative emotions, but not on positive emotions. Consumers’ perception of cheapness and perception of expensiveness have impacts on positive emotions toward supermarkets. It was additionally discovered that perception of cheapness and perception of expensiveness affected negative emotions toward supermarkets. A contributed finding was that perception of cheapness had a partial mediating role between price sensitivity and purchase intention.Practical implicationsThe study provides managerial implications in terms of understanding consumers’ behavioral changes, developing effective pricing strategies and achieving competitive advantages over the other retailing companies.Originality/valueThe study illustrates that consumer behavior can be explained by a theoretical construct considering the price perception levels and emotions toward supermarkets in examining the effect of consumers’ price sensitivity on their purchase intention. Therefore, it contributes to explain consumers’ behavior by bringing the stimulus–organism–response (SOR) model into a theoretical construct.

scholarly journals A global test of brief reappraisal interventions on emotions during the COVID-19 pandemic

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ke Wang ◽  
Amit Goldenberg ◽  
Charles Dorison ◽  
Jeremy K. Miller ◽  
Andero Uusberg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Active Control ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Passive Control ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Global Test ◽  
Adverse Impacts ◽  
Effective Form ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact

The COVID-19 pandemic is increasing negative emotions and decreasing positive emotions globally. Left unchecked, these emotional changes may have a wide array of adverse impacts. To reduce negative emotions and increase positive emotions, we will examine the impact of reappraisal, a widely studied and highly effective form of emotion regulation. Participants from 55 countries (expected N = 25,448) will be randomly assigned to one of two brief reappraisal interventions (reconstrual or repurposing), an active control condition, or a passive control condition. We predict that both reappraisal interventions will reduce negative emotions and increase positive emotions relative to the control conditions. We further predict that reconstrual will decrease negative emotions more than repurposing, and that repurposing will increase positive emotions more than reconstrual. We hope to inform efforts to create a scalable intervention for use around the world to build resilience during the pandemic and beyond.

scholarly journals PHRASEOLOGICAL UNITS WITH SEMANTICS OF EMOTIONS IN THE BELARUSIAN LANGUAGE

2019 ◽  
pp. 41-50
Author(s):  
A. Douhal
Keyword(s):  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Emotional State ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Semantic Feature ◽  
Semantic Field ◽  
Emotional Experiences ◽  
Semantic Group ◽  
The Impact

The proposed research is carried out in the mainstream of emotive linguistics which is an actual line of scientific research today. To denote emotional experiences the language has a variety of means – lexical, phonetic, grammatical. The article analyzes phraseological units with the semantics of emotions in the Belarusian language recorded in the two-volume dictionary "Dictionary of phraseological units" by І. Ya. Lepeshau (2008). These phraseological units are united in one phraseological semantic field within which one can distinguish several semantic groups: 1) the semantic group "emotional state"; 2) the semantic group "emotional relationship"; 3) the semantic group "external manifestation of emotions;" 4) the semantic group "emotional peace". Each group has its own integral semantic feature. The number of phraseological units is dominated by the first group. Separately a group of causative phraseological units was singled out and considered, the integral semantic sign for which is the combination of the 'emotion' seme with the 'impact' seme. These phraseological units refer to the emotional state of an object caused by the actions of a subject. It was noted that in all the examined semantic groups the designation of negative emotions (fear, anxiety, excitement, despair, anger, hatred, sadness, shame, melancholy) is dominant, the designation of positive emotions is much less common (joy, happiness, sympathy, love). Many phraseological units have close semantics so they can form synonymic series. Anthony is less common. There were recorded cases of enantiosemia – the presence of opposing meanings within one phraseological unit. The phraseological material indicates that metaphor is the main way of forming figurativness.

Formation of Positive Emotions in Physical Exercises

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 22-27
Author(s):  
T. Guruleva
Keyword(s):  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Mental Activity ◽  
Positive Thinking ◽  
Physical Exercises ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Positive And Negative Emotions

The article discusses the impact of positive and negative emotions on the development and health of children. Special attention is paid to the methods of forming positive emotions. The process of mental activity taking into account features of formation of positive thinking is described. The article is addressed to teachers and teachers, students of pedagogical universities, Methodists and parents.

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