Search results for "Anxiety."

Children's achievement behaviors in relation to their skill development and temperament

2013

(Dis)empowering assessment? : assessment as experienced by students in their upper secondary school EFL studies

2017

Assessment has a great deal of power over students. However, there is little research on how students experience assessment and its power in the school context. The purpose of this mixed-methods study is therefore to examine how students in one Finnish upper secondary school experienced assessment and (dis)empowerment in their EFL studies. The present study, which situates itself within the realm of teacher research, also aims to experiment with alternative assessment methods in order to investigate whether they could foster empowerment in upper secondary EFL studies. The study comprises five articles and a monograph, and is divided into two parts, each with its own research aims. Part 1 an…

Panic disorder, anxiety, and cardiovascular diseases

2014

Different data indicate that psychological and/or emotional disorders may play an important role in the natural history of heart diseases. Although the major evidence is that related to depression, epidemiological data would indicate that anxiety and panic disorders are highly represented in cardiac patient, thus influencing mortality and morbidity. The diagnosis of panic disorder in patients with chest pain is crucial to a correct therapeutic approach, as well as to reduce the risks and costs of inappropriate treatments. Anxiety and panic may accelerate different direct and indirect processes involved in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular diseases: lifestyle risk factors, arterial hyperten…

Reference frames for spatial and social thinking: Individual differences in strategy use: Poster

2021

Reference frames for spatial and social thinking: Individual differences in strategy use: Oral presentation

2021

Trauksme publiskās uzstāšanās laikā vīriešiem un sievietēm un to saistība ar personības iezīmē.

2018

Pētījuma mērķis bija izpētīt trauksmi publiskās uzstāšanās laikā vīriešiem un sievietēm un to saistību ar personības iezīmēm. Piedalījās 60 respondenti (31 sieviete un 29 vīrieši, tajā skaitā 34skolēni un 26 strādājošie). Pētījumā tika izmantota Spīlbergera trauksmes aptauja (State-Traid Anxiety Inventory / STAI/ Spilberger, 1983) ar pielāgotu instrukciju un Lielā Piecnieka aptauja (Big Five Inventory, BFI, Benet-Martines & John, 1998). Aptauju rezultāti liecināja, ka nepastāv dzimumatšķirības trauksmē publiskas uzstāšanās laikā. Personības iezīmju vidēji ciešas pozitīvas korelācijas atrastas saistībā ar neirotismu, vidēji ciešas negatīvas sakarības - ar ekstraversiju, apzinīgumu un atvērtī…

Future anxiety as a predictor of the fear of childbirth

2017

Lęk przed porodem jest zjawiskiem emocjonalnym, którego łagodnych objawów doświadcza większość kobiet, niezależnie od stanu i etapu ciąży. Lęk przed porodem jest zmienną według większości badań oddziałującą na decyzje prokreacyjne, przebieg ciąży i porodu. Lęk przed porodem jako zmienna silnie wpływa na deklarowanie chęci cesarskiego cięcia. Przebadano grupę (N = 350) polskich kobiet, które były zapraszane do badań poprzez przychodnie ginekologiczne. Kobiety wypełniały ankietę mierzącą następujące konstrukty: lęk przed porodem (Putyński, 1997), lęk przed przyszłością (Zaleski, 1996), orientację temporalną (Zimbardo i Boyd, 1999) oraz metryczkę mierzącą zmienne położnicze i demograficzne. Wy…

Baltic Journal of English Language, Literature and Culture, Vol.10

2020

Cough is dangerous : neural correlates of implicit body symptoms associations

2016

The negative interpretation of body sensations (e.g., as sign of a severe illness) is a crucial cognitive process in pathological health anxiety (HA). However, little is known about the nature and the degree of automaticity of this interpretation bias. We applied an implicit association test (IAT) in 20 subjects during functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate behavioral and neural correlates of implicit attitudes towards symptom words. On the behavioral level, body symptom words elicited strong negative implicit association effects, as indexed by slowed reaction times when symptom words were paired with the attribute harmless (incongruent condition) relative to a control …

Prenatal exposure to diazepam and alprazolam, but not to zolpidem, affects behavioural stress reactivity in handling-naïve and handling-habituated ad…

2002

A gentle long-lasting handling produces persistent neurochemical and behavioural changes and attenuates the impairment in the behavioural reactivity to novelty induced by the prenatal exposure to diazepam (DZ) in adult male rat progeny. This study investigated the consequences of a late prenatal treatment with three GABA/BDZ R agonists (DZ) alprazolam (ALP) and zolpidem (ZOLP)), on different stress-related behavioural patterns, in non-handled (NH), short-lasting handled (SLH) and long-lasting handled (LLH) adult male rats exposed to forced swim test (FST), acoustic startle reflex (ASR) and Vogel test (VT). The effects on motor activity were evaluated in the open field and in the Skinner box…