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Autonomic Modulation Improves in Response to Harder Performances While Playing Wind Instruments
2020
Background: Despite inducing autonomic benefits similar to exercise, playing wind instruments is a physical, and cognitive task of high attentional requirements, which demands musicians maximal efforts, leading to sympathetic hyperarousal and autonomic worsening. In this context of controversy, it remains unknown the autonomic response to playing highly demanding music performances, as compared to an easier one, which might be of interest in wind musicians' cardiovascular health. Objectives: This study aimed to investigate differences in the autonomic control of the heart with regard to task demands (TD), avoiding emotional influences (rehearsal performance). Methods: Eight healthy male pro…
Can meaning buffer work pressure? An exploratory study on styles of meaning in life and burnout in firefighters
2016
Aim of the studyThe purpose of this study is to examine the relationships between different dimensions of meaning in life and burnout among firefighters. The relationships between personal meaning, presence of meaning, search for meaning, and burnout are to be examined. In addition, the differences in the firefighters’ level of burnout are to be evaluated within three styles of meaning in life.Subject or material and methodsParticipants were 189 Polish firefighters who participated in the study voluntarily. The age ranged from 20 to 50 years and the mean age was 33.04 years (SD = 7.87). The participants were randomly recruited from twelve fire stations located in southern parts of Poland. T…
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Avatar Preferences in Online Games
2020
Abstract. This study investigates the relationship between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), age, and sex with respect to their avatar preference in online games. The analyses comprise a subsample of n = 1817 adolescents and adults from 14 to 60 years within a representative German population-based study. Results indicate that 14 % of this sample uses avatars in online games, with significantly more males (22.6 %) than females (7.7 %) doing so. Persons with multiple ACEs (≥ 4) have a higher OR of 2.05 (95 % CI: 1.418–2.956) to use avatars in online games. Regarding avatar preference, females are more likely to play supporters than males, and males are more likely to choose damagers and…
Tratamiento psicológico de los trastornos emocionales en Atención Primaria: el manual de tratamiento transdiagnóstico del estudio PsicAP
2018
Resumen Una parte sustancial de las consultas de Atencion Primaria (AP) tiene como motivo principal algun tipo de trastorno emocional, especialmente los relacionados con la depresion, la ansiedad y las somatizaciones. Estos trastornos mentales mas comunes tienen altos costes para los afectados y para la sociedad en general. Pese a la existencia de terapias psicologicas que han demostrado ser eficaces para esos trastornos, rara vez se utilizan en el primer nivel asistencial. El objetivo del proyecto de Psicologia en Atencion Primaria (PsicAP) es demostrar la eficacia de una terapia de cognitivo-conductual grupal transdiagnostica para tratar los trastornos emocionales mas frecuentes en AP. Es…
Tratamiento psicológico de los trastornos emocionales en atención primaria: fundamentos teóricos y empíricos del estudio PsicAP
2017
Resumen El proyecto Psicologia en Atencion Primaria (PsicAP) pretende promover el tratamiento psicologico basado en la evidencia para los trastornos emocionales en atencion primaria. Este trabajo presenta los fundamentos teoricos y empiricos del programa de tratamiento de PsicAP, destacando 4 aspectos clave: la evidencia sobre la eficacia del tratamiento cognitivo-conductual, el modelo de tratamiento escalonado, el enfoque transdiagnostico y el formato de tratamiento grupal. Por ultimo, se destacan las implicaciones practicas de esta iniciativa que puede ayudar a reducir la distancia entre la investigacion sobre la eficacia de los tratamientos psicologicos y la practica clinica, asi como la…
Secure attachment and individual protective factors against internalized homophobia
2019
This article explores the relationship between internalized homophobia and three main variables: attachment to mother, father, and peers; ego resiliency; and self-esteem. We recruited 51 Italian gay men and 54 lesbian women aged between 18 and 30, and asked them to complete self-report measures. The results showed that internalized homophobia negatively correlated with the security of attachment to father and self-esteem. On the other hand, no significant association was found between ego resiliency and internalized homophobia. The implications of these findings are considered in the discussion, along with the potential role of preventive programs targeting attachment relationships and self…
To achieve a sense of rightness: The joint role of Not Just Right Experiences and Intolerance of Uncertainty in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
2021
Abstract Background/Objective Not Just Right Experiences (NJREs) are currently considered as one of the motivators of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), but the ways through which NJREs affect OCD symptoms remains unclear. The aim of the present study was to examine the putative mediational role of Intolerance of Uncertainty (IU) in the association between NJRE severity and OCD symptoms in patients with OCD. Method Sixty-two patients with OCD completed self-report measures of NJREs, OCD symptoms, and IU. Results IU mediated the relationship between NJRE severity and OCD symptoms. Furthermore, NJRE severity emerged as moderator of the path, suggesting that the mediational role of IU is str…
Factors associated with the anxious symptomatology in a sample of university students
2018
BACKGROUND: The university period may represent a moment in which the mental well-being of students is subjected to stress with relative predisposition to the development of diseases related to mood disorders. The aim of the study was to measure the severity of anxious symptoms within the student population of the University of Palermo. METHODS: An anonymous online questionnaire was provided to students enrolled in the mailing list of the Regional Agency for the Right to University Study of the University of Palermo. The first section investigated demographic and social data, while in the second section the B.A.I. (Beck Anxiety Inventory) test was administered. RESULTS: The sample consists …
Sensory and affective components of symptom perception: A psychometric approach
2018
Psychological accounts of symptom perception put forward that symptom experiences consist of sensory-perceptual and affective-motivational components. This division is also suggested by psychometric studies investigating the latent structure of symptom reporting. To corroborate the view that the general and symptom-specific factors of a bifactor model represent affective and sensory components, respectively, we performed bifactor models applying confirmatory factor analytic approaches to the Patient Health Questionnaire-15 and the Checklist for Symptoms in Daily Life completed by 1053 undergraduate students. Additionally, we explored the association of latent factors with negative affectivi…
La position temporelle et spatiale dans les histoires hallucinées
2008
Les hallucinations sont fréquemment définies comme des perceptions sans objet à percevoir. Pour les étudier, le clinicien ne peut avoir accès qu'au récit qu'en fait le patient. Dans cette étude, nous nous sommes donc intéressés aux marqueurs de localisation dans le temps et dans l'espace présents dans des récits produits par des patients hallucinés. Quatorze discours ont été recueillis auprès de patients schizophrènes entendant ou ayant entendu des voix. L'analyse de ces discours montre qu'ils respectent parfaitement les règles usuelles de la narration. Les résultats montrent que pour raconter à un tiers l'expérience hallucinatoire, les sujets doivent mettre cet événement hallucinatoire en …