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Int J Psychol ; 55 Suppl 1: 26-39, 2020 Jan.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31144308

RESUMO

A child's adjustment to wartime stress is reliant not only on individual responses and qualities, but very significantly on the availability of support that they may receive from their parent or caregivers and quality of relationships. Strengthening parental support has the potential to be valuable. A pilot two-arm randomised controlled trial investigated the feasibility of delivering and evaluating the "Caring for Children Through Conflict and Displacement" intervention with caregivers in the West Bank. Feasibility to recruit and train non-specialist staff on-the-ground to screen families for eligibility, collect outcome data, deliver the intervention and to recruit and retain families in the study were examined. Research staff and intervention facilitators were successfully appointed in the field, screened participants and delivered the intervention to 120 caregivers, collecting outcome measures pre-and post-delivery. All families completed the outcome measures, with very little missing data. This indicated that the intervention can be delivered feasibly and evaluated with families in this humanitarian context. Preliminary outcome data showed promise that the intervention may have the potential to both improve family functioning and reduce children's problem behaviour. Implications of family-focused initiatives, particularly within a conflict/post-conflict context for the prevention of several negative health and social outcomes directions, are discussed.


Assuntos
Cuidadores/normas , Poder Familiar/psicologia , Tato/fisiologia , Adolescente , Criança , Deslocamento Psicológico , Estudos de Viabilidade , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Oriente Médio , Negociação , Projetos Piloto
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Acta Paediatr ; 105(1): 24-30, 2016 Jan.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25919999

RESUMO

UNLABELLED: Instinctive behaviours have evolved favouring the mother-infant dyad based on fundamental processes of neurological development, including oral tactile imprinting and latchment. Latchment is the first stage of emotional development based on the successful achievement of biological imprinting. The mechanisms underpinning imprinting are identified and the evolutionary benefits discussed. CONCLUSION: It is proposed that the oral tactile imprint to the breast is a keystone for optimal latchment and breastfeeding, promoting evolutionary success.


Assuntos
Aleitamento Materno/psicologia , Desenvolvimento Infantil , Deslocamento Psicológico , Fixação Psicológica Instintiva , Comportamento do Lactente/psicologia , Recém-Nascido/psicologia , Relações Mãe-Filho , Humanos , Instinto , Apego ao Objeto , Comportamento de Sucção
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Pers Soc Psychol Rev ; 19(3): 257-76, 2015 Aug.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25099634

RESUMO

The authors propose a framework distinguishing two types of lateral attitude change (LAC): (a) generalization effects, where attitude change toward a focal object transfers to related objects, and (b) displacement effects, where only related attitudes change but the focal attitude does not change. They bring together examples of LAC from various domains of research, outline the conditions and underlying processes of each type of LAC, and develop a theoretical framework that enables researchers to study LAC more systematically in the future. Compared with established theories of attitude change, the LAC framework focuses on lateral instead of focal attitude change and encompasses both generalization and displacement. Novel predictions and designs for studying LAC are presented.


Assuntos
Atitude , Deslocamento Psicológico , Generalização Psicológica , Humanos , Modelos Psicológicos , Apego ao Objeto , Teoria Psicológica , Comportamento Social , Percepção Social
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Epilepsy Behav ; 41: 109-13, 2014 Dec.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25461199

RESUMO

This study examined the relationship between task-switching abilities and displaced aggression in people with temporal lobe epilepsy (PWE). Participants (35 PWE and 35 healthy controls) performed emotion and gender classification switching tasks. People with temporal lobe epilepsy showed larger switch costs than controls. This result reflected task-switching deficits in PWE. People with temporal lobe epilepsy reported higher anger rumination, revenge planning, and behavioral displaced aggression compared with controls. Displaced aggression was a significant predictor of the task switch costs. It is suggested that displaced aggression is a significant marker of task-switching deficits.


Assuntos
Agressão/psicologia , Deslocamento Psicológico , Epilepsia do Lobo Temporal/psicologia , Adolescente , Adulto , Ira , Emoções , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Testes Neuropsicológicos , Desempenho Psicomotor , Tempo de Reação , Caracteres Sexuais , Fatores Socioeconômicos , Adulto Jovem
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J Exp Child Psychol ; 126: 80-90, 2014 Oct.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24907630

RESUMO

Displacement activities are commonly recognized as behavioral patterns, mostly including self-directed actions (e.g., scratching, self-touching), that often occur in situations involving conflicting motivational tendencies. In ethology, several researchers have suggested that displacement activities could facilitate individuals in dealing with the stress experienced in a frustrating context. In child developmental research, some authors have assessed whether distraction strategies could help children to inhibit a dominant response during delay of gratification tasks. However, little is known about the displacement activities that young children may produce in such situations. This study was aimed at investigating whether displacement activities had an effect on preschool children's ability to postpone an immediate gratification (i.e., interacting with an attractive toy, a musical box), thereby functioning as regulators of their emotional state. To this end, we administered 143 2- to 4-year-olds with a delay maintenance task and related their performance with displacement activities they produced during the task and with actions with an external object. Children's latency to touch the musical box was positively related to their rate of displacement activities. However, the rate of displacement activities increased progressively as long as the children were able to inhibit the interaction with the musical box. In addition, the rate of displacement activities during the first 1 min of test did not predict the ability of children to inhibit the interaction with the box. These results suggest that displacement activities represented a functionless by-product of motivational conflict rather than a strategy that children used to inhibit their response to an attractive stimulus.


Assuntos
Comportamento Infantil/psicologia , Deslocamento Psicológico , Inibição Psicológica , Pré-Escolar , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Psicologia da Criança , Fatores de Tempo
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J Sports Sci ; 32(9): 836-44, 2014.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-24405120

RESUMO

This study investigated psychosocial processes associated with avoidance of health- and morality-based deterrents to performance-enhancing drug (PED) use. In-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted with 64 English male bodybuilders with experience of doping. Resultant data were content analysed deductively using definitions for the eight mechanisms of moral disengagement (MD; Bandura, A. (1991). Social cognitive theory of moral thought and action. In W. M. Kurtines & J. L. Gewirtz (Eds.), Handbook of moral behavior and development: Theory research and applications (pp. 71-129). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.), and three further themes from Boardley and Grix (2013. Doping in bodybuilders: A qualitative investigation of facilitative psychosocial processes. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise, and Health. Advance online publication, doi 10.1080/2159676X.2013.766809). These analyses evidenced six MD mechanisms, and all three of the themes from Boardley and Grix (2013. Doping in bodybuilders: A qualitative investigation of facilitative psychosocial processes. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise, and Health. Advance online publication). Subsequent frequency analyses revealed six of the eight MD mechanisms, and two of the three additional themes, were common across the sample. Overall, the findings suggest MD may help athletes circumvent health- and morality-based deterrents to doping, describe a process linking supplement and PED use and detail how some athletes may actively avoid social censure for doping by only discussing PED use with other PED users from within their training environment.


Assuntos
Dopagem Esportivo/psicologia , Princípios Morais , Substâncias para Melhoria do Desempenho , Levantamento de Peso/psicologia , Adulto , Idoso , Deslocamento Psicológico , Relações Familiares , Amigos/psicologia , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Racionalização , Adulto Jovem
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Stress ; 16(4): 384-92, 2013 Jul.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23205741

RESUMO

When stressed, people typically show elevated rates of displacement behaviour--activities such as scratching and face touching that seem irrelevant to the ongoing situation. Growing evidence indicates that displacement behaviour may play a role in regulating stress levels, and thus may represent an important component of the coping response. Recently, we found evidence that this stress-regulating effect of displacement behaviour is found in men but not in women. This sex difference may result from women's higher levels of public self-consciousness, which could inhibit expression of displacement behaviour due to the fear of projecting an inappropriate image. Here, we explored the link between public self-consciousness, displacement behaviour and stress among 62 healthy women (mean age = 26.59 years; SD = 3.61). We first assessed participants' public self-consciousness, and then quantified displacement behaviour, heart rate and cognitive performance during a Trier Social Stress Test (TSST) and used self-report questionnaires to assess the experience of stress afterwards. Public self-consciousness was negatively correlated with rate of displacement behaviour, and positively correlated with both the subjective experience of stress post-TSST and the number of mistakes in the cognitive task. Moderation analyses revealed that for women high in public self-consciousness, high levels of displacement behaviour were associated with higher reported levels of stress and poorer cognitive performance. For women low in public self-consciousness, stress levels and cognitive performance were unrelated to displacement behaviour. Our findings indicate that public self-consciousness is associated with both the expression of displacement behaviour and how such behaviour mediates responses to social stress.


Assuntos
Comportamento , Deslocamento Psicológico , Emoções , Estresse Psicológico/psicologia , Adulto , Estado de Consciência , Feminino , Frequência Cardíaca , Humanos , Fase Luteal , Masculino , Fatores Sexuais
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Stress ; 16(2): 163-71, 2013 Mar.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23017012

RESUMO

Behavioural coping strategies represent a key means by which people regulate their stress levels. Attention has recently focused on the potential role in coping of 'displacement behaviour' - activities such as scratching, lip biting and face touching. Increased levels of displacement behaviour are associated with feelings of anxiety and stress; however, the extent to which displacement behaviour, as a short-term behavioural response to emotionally challenging stimuli, influences the subsequent experience of stress remains poorly understood. The aim of this study was to investigate the potential role of displacement behaviour in coping with stress. In a study population of 42 healthy adult men (mean age = 28.09 years, SD = 7.98), we quantified displacement behaviour during a Trier Social Stress Test (TSST), and used self-report questionnaires to assess trait and state anxiety before the TSST, and the experience of stress afterwards. We predicted displacement behaviour would diminish the negative impact of the stressful situation, and hence be associated with lower post-TSST stress levels. Furthermore, we predicted displacement behaviour would mediate the link between state and trait anxiety on the one hand and the experience of stress on the other. Results showed the rate of displacement behaviour was positively correlated with state anxiety but unrelated to trait anxiety, and negatively correlated with the self-reported experience of stress, in agreement with the idea that displacement behaviour has a crucial impact on regulation of stress. Moreover, serial mediation analyses using a bias-corrected bootstrapping approach indicated displacement behaviour mediated the relationship between state anxiety and the experience of stress, and that state anxiety and displacement behaviour - in combination, respectively - mediated the link between trait anxiety and experience of stress. These results shed important new light on the function of displacement behaviour, and highlight promising new avenues for research into emotional expression and stress regulation.


Assuntos
Ansiedade/psicologia , Deslocamento Psicológico , Estresse Psicológico/fisiopatologia , Adaptação Psicológica , Adulto , Humanos , Masculino , Estresse Psicológico/psicologia
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J Exp Child Psychol ; 115(1): 180-7, 2013 May.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23374606

RESUMO

People often displace their anger and aggression against innocent targets, sometimes called scapegoats. Tragic historic events suggest that members of ethnic minority out-groups may be especially likely to be innocent targets. The current experiment examined displaced aggression of Dutch youths against Dutch in-group peers versus Moroccan out-group peers. Participants (N=137, Mage=11.6 years) completed a personal profile that was allegedly evaluated by Dutch peer judges. After randomly receiving negative or neutral feedback from these peers, participants were given the opportunity to aggress against other innocent Dutch and Moroccan peers by taking money earned away from them. Results showed that in response to negative feedback, participants displaced aggression disproportionally against innocent Moroccan out-group targets. This effect was not driven by ethnic prejudice; in both conditions, participants holding more negative attitudes of Moroccans engaged in higher levels of aggression regardless of the ethnicity of the target.


Assuntos
Agressão/psicologia , Deslocamento Psicológico , Emigrantes e Imigrantes/psicologia , Islamismo/psicologia , Grupo Associado , Identificação Social , Adolescente , Criança , Retroalimentação , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Marrocos/etnologia , Países Baixos , Preconceito , Estereotipagem
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J Nerv Ment Dis ; 201(9): 744-52, 2013 Sep.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23995029

RESUMO

The current schizophrenia concept is built on experts' agreement on the matter, and it is basically rooted in the epidemiological and clinical evidence. However, the numerous and intensive attempts to find the biological underpinnings of this syndrome face almost constantly a low degree of replication of the results. We have reviewed previously published work to contribute to identify some reasons underlying that failure. The difficulty in replicating biological findings in schizophrenia may relate to the intrinsic heterogeneity among patient samples, acquired through the current diagnostic criteria. As a result, the necessary replication for any finding to be accepted as characteristic data for schizophrenia would be impeded. Therefore, a new frame based on identification of correlates of the most replicated biological anomalies in schizophrenia to date may contribute to overcome those difficulties.


Assuntos
Esquizofrenia/diagnóstico , Esquizofrenia/fisiopatologia , Psicologia do Esquizofrênico , Antipsicóticos/uso terapêutico , Encéfalo/efeitos dos fármacos , Encéfalo/fisiopatologia , Variações do Número de Cópias de DNA/genética , Análise Mutacional de DNA , Deslocamento Psicológico , Dopamina/fisiologia , Predisposição Genética para Doença/genética , Humanos , Relações Interpessoais , Processos Mentais/efeitos dos fármacos , Processos Mentais/fisiologia , Rede Nervosa/efeitos dos fármacos , Rede Nervosa/fisiopatologia , Inibição Neural/efeitos dos fármacos , Inibição Neural/fisiologia , Psicofisiologia , Receptores de N-Metil-D-Aspartato/efeitos dos fármacos , Receptores de N-Metil-D-Aspartato/fisiologia , Reprodutibilidade dos Testes , Pesquisa , Esquizofrenia/classificação , Esquizofrenia/tratamento farmacológico , Transmissão Sináptica/efeitos dos fármacos , Transmissão Sináptica/fisiologia , Resultado do Tratamento , Ácido gama-Aminobutírico/fisiologia
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Am J Primatol ; 75(4): 314-23, 2013 Apr.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23229557

RESUMO

The human intruder test is a testing paradigm designed to measure rhesus macaques' behavioral responses to a stressful and threatening situation. In the test, an unfamiliar human positions him/herself in various threatening positions relative to a caged macaque. This paradigm has been utilized for over 20 years to measure a variety of behavioral constructs, including fear and anxiety, behavioral inhibition, emotionality, and aggression. To date, there have been no attempts to evaluate comprehensively the structure of the behavioral responses to the test. Our first goal was to identify the underlying latent factors affecting the different responses among subjects, and our second goal was to determine if rhesus reared in different environments respond differently in this testing paradigm. To accomplish this, we first performed exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses on the behavioral responses of 3- to 4-month-old rhesus macaques, utilizing data from over 2,000 separate tests conducted between 2001-2007. Using the resulting model, we then tested to see whether early rearing experience affected responses in the test. Our first analyses suggested that most of the variation in infant behavioral responses to the human intruder test could be explained by four latent factors: "activity," "emotionality," "aggression," and "displacement." Our second analyses revealed a significant effect of rearing condition for each factor score (P < 0.001); most notable socially reared animals had the lowest activity score (P < 0.001), indoor mother-reared animals had the highest displacement score (P < 0.001), and nursery-reared animals had the highest emotionality (P < 0.001) and lowest aggression scores (P < 0.001). These results demonstrate that this standardized testing paradigm reveals multiple patterns of response, which are influenced by an animal's rearing history.


Assuntos
Comportamento Animal , Macaca mulatta/psicologia , Tempo de Reação , Estresse Psicológico , Agressão , Animais , Animais Recém-Nascidos , Deslocamento Psicológico , Emoções , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Meio Social
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ISA Trans ; 131: 1-14, 2022 Dec.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35623908

RESUMO

Aiming at the low tracking accuracy and poor fault tolerance of displacement-controlled systems, this paper puts forward a fault tolerant robust controller. The influence of many uncertain factors on trajectory tracking performance have been considered, such as external disturbances, high nonlinearity, system faults, and complex modeling uncertainty of the system. First, a new finite-time observer is proposed to estimate the system states, disturbances, and system faults simultaneously. Then, an improved fast super twisting algorithm is designed to guarantee the reachability of the sliding surface in finite time. Furthermore, the prescribed performance constrained control technique is combined to ensure that the tracking error remains within the prescribed bounded range even though faults occur. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed control method is validated by simulation results.


Assuntos
Algoritmos , Deslocamento Psicológico , Simulação por Computador , Tolerância a Medicamentos , Tolerância Imunológica
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Fam Community Health ; 34(4): 340-8, 2011.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-21881421

RESUMO

This article presents findings from a qualitative research study with daughters of internally displaced families, more than a decade and half after the end of the Lebanese civil war. In-depth interviews with these adolescent girls indicate that in the absence of universal coverage of social security nets for the Lebanese, the effects of impoverishment and continuous mobility in the suburbs have adverse effects on their sense of stability, schooling, and coping. The article argues that although the effects of impoverishment are not new to similar urban youth populations, the quality of social support networks (ties to rural areas and support from welfare agency services) is a determining factor in the way they cope with adversity. Implications for policy are also presented.


Assuntos
Adaptação Psicológica , Comportamento do Adolescente/psicologia , Meio Social , Apoio Social , Adolescente , Criança , Deslocamento Psicológico , Feminino , Humanos , Entrevistas como Assunto , Líbano , Relações Pais-Filho , Pobreza , Psicologia do Adolescente , População Urbana , Guerra , Adulto Jovem
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J Vis ; 10(6): 17, 2010 Jun 01.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-20884566

RESUMO

Stimulus displacements coinciding with a saccadic eye movement are poorly detected by human observers. In recent years, converging evidence has shown that this phenomenon does not result from poor transsaccadic retention of presaccadic stimulus position information, but from the visual system's efforts to spatially align presaccadic and postsaccadic perception on the basis of visual landmarks. It is known that this process can be disrupted, and transsaccadic displacement detection performance can be improved, by briefly blanking the stimulus display during and immediately after the saccade. In the present study, we investigated whether this improvement could also follow from a discontinuity in the task-irrelevant form of the displaced stimulus. We observed this to be the case: Subjects more accurately identified the direction of intrasaccadic displacements when the displaced stimulus simultaneously changed form, compared to conditions without a form change. However, larger improvements were still observed under blanking conditions. In a second experiment, we show that facilitation induced by form changes and blanks can combine. We conclude that a strong assumption of visual stability underlies the suppression of transsaccadic change detection performance, the rejection of which generalizes from stimulus form to stimulus position.


Assuntos
Discriminação Psicológica/fisiologia , Deslocamento Psicológico , Fixação Ocular/fisiologia , Percepção de Forma/fisiologia , Movimentos Sacádicos/fisiologia , Percepção Espacial/fisiologia , Adulto , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Estimulação Luminosa , Adulto Jovem
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J Contemp Asia ; 40(4): 568-88, 2010.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-20845567

RESUMO

This focus of this paper is not Surabaya's increasingly free-flowing streets, but the people those streets displace. Based on research in a low-income neighbourhood, or kampung, of Indonesia's second largest city, this paper shows how the street facilitates displacement and exacerbates the marginalisation of underemployed kampung men. This argument is set against the struggles over the use of public space between Surabaya's kampung residents and the municipality since independence and is grounded through the biographical detail of seven kampung men over the ten years since the economic crisis of 1998.


Assuntos
Deslocamento Psicológico , Alienação Social , Classe Social , Desemprego , População Urbana , Urbanização , História do Século XX , História do Século XXI , Indonésia/etnologia , Logradouros Públicos/economia , Logradouros Públicos/história , Logradouros Públicos/legislação & jurisprudência , Alienação Social/psicologia , Classe Social/história , Condições Sociais/economia , Condições Sociais/história , Condições Sociais/legislação & jurisprudência , Desemprego/história , Desemprego/psicologia , Saúde da População Urbana/história , População Urbana/história , Urbanização/história , Urbanização/legislação & jurisprudência
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Ann Behav Med ; 37(2): 184-96, 2009 Apr.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19322619

RESUMO

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: This study investigated the impact of conscientiousness and its facets on health behaviors and daily hassles (stressors) and the moderating effects of conscientiousness on the hassles-health behavior relationship METHODS: Four hundred and twenty-two employees completed daily diaries over 4 weeks. Day-to-day within-person effects of daily hassles on health behaviors were examined, together with the influence of conscientiousness. RESULTS: Using hierarchical multivariate linear modeling, the results showed that conscientiousness was associated with lower consumption of high-fat snacks and more fruit and higher caffeine intake and smoking (in smokers) across the 28-day study period. Facets of conscientiousness were also found to moderate the effects of daily hassles on vegetable consumption, smoking, and likelihood of exercising each day. Participants with higher levels of order exercised more on days when they experienced daily hassles, whereas participants with lower levels of self-efficacy consumed less vegetables on stressful days. Among smokers, those with higher levels of self-discipline reported smoking more on days when they encountered hassles. CONCLUSIONS: These findings indicate that conscientiousness and its facets may influence health status directly via changes in health behaviors and indirectly through influencing stress-health behavior relations.


Assuntos
Adaptação Psicológica , Comportamentos Relacionados com a Saúde , Personalidade , Responsabilidade Social , Estresse Psicológico/psicologia , Adolescente , Adulto , Idoso , Consciência , Deslocamento Psicológico , Feminino , Humanos , Modelos Lineares , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Valores de Referência , Adulto Jovem
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Psychoanal Q ; 78(1): 107-22, 2009 Jan.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-19334647

RESUMO

Seeing the light is an expression that usually connotes a conceptual grasp of meaning in all its complexity, while the perception of light is not the issue. In this paper, the authors present a patient with an exquisite light sensitivity that disturbs her sleep; she is "seeing the light" in a symptomatic, concrete way. Light itself has become a compliant and collusive element onto which an aspect of conflict is displaced in the service of self-deception. Ironically, the analysis and deconstruction of the symptom eventually led to the kind of insight that the expression seeing the light conveys.


Assuntos
Deslocamento Psicológico , Fotofobia/psicologia , Processos Psicoterapêuticos , Sonhos , Feminino , Humanos , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Terapia Psicanalítica , Transferência Psicológica
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Psicol. ciênc. prof ; 44: e257594, 2024. tab
Artigo em Inglês | LILACS, Index Psi (psicologia) | ID: biblio-1558739

RESUMO

Addictive behaviors related to Internet are becoming more common and this tool has been essential once it enables home office, entertainment, homeschooling, and easy access to information. Despite the easiness brought by technology, the exaggerated use has affected users in different ways, including in the development of psychiatric disorders. This study aimed to assess internet addiction, depression, anxiety, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), attention, impulsivity, and stress in 48 adolescents (26 young women and 22 young men), aged from 15 to 18 years, with a mean age of 16.74 (0.61), mostly students of public schools, during COVID-19, to investigate correlations between these variables according to sex and sociodemographic aspects. To assess the factors, the Internet Addiction Test (IAT); the Swanson, Nolan, and Pelham Rating Scale (SNAP-IV) Questionnaire ; the Depression, Anxiety, and Stress scale for brazilian adolescents (EDAE-A); the Barratt Impulsiveness Scale (BIS-11); and a sociodemographic questionnaire were applied. The data collection was performed in schools located in southern Brazil. The results indicated that 12 out of 48 adolescents were considered addicted to the Internet. Moreover, Internet addiction was a predictor of depression in regression analysis (p<0.001). In addition, participants classified as more addicted to the Internet scored lower averages in general attention (p<0.035) and higher averages in behavioral symptoms of inattention and ADHD (p<0.050), stress (p<0.003), anxiety (p<0.016), and depression (p<0.015), with effect sizes ranging from moderate to high. Therefore, the intense internet use by adolescents might cause psychological consequences such as depression in adolescents. Family support and professional intervention might help in the reduction of symptoms and consequences of internet addiction as well as in its prevention.(AU)


A dependência de internet é cada vez mais comum, pois essa ferramenta tem se tornado imprescindível, uma vez que possibilita home office, entretenimento, educação domiciliar e fácil acesso às informações. No entanto, o uso exagerado da tecnologia afeta os usuários de diversas formas, inclusive no desenvolvimento de transtornos psiquiátricos. Este estudo visou avaliar a dependência de internet, depressão, ansiedade, hiperatividade, atenção, impulsividade e estresse em 48 adolescentes (26 meninas e 22 meninos) de 15 a 18 anos, com idade média de 16,74 (0,61), estudantes de escolas públicas do Sul do Brasil durante a covid-19, para investigar correlações entre as variáveis anteriores de acordo com gênero e aspectos sociodemográficos. Para avaliar, aplicou-se o Internet Addiction Test (IAT), um teste de atenção, escala SNAP IV, escala de depressão, ansiedade e estresse para adolescentes (EDAE-A), escala de impulsividade de Barratt e um questionário sociodemográfico. Os resultados indicaram que 12 adolescentes foram considerados viciados em internet, e que a dependência desta foi preditora da depressão na análise de regressão (p < 0,001). Ainda, os participantes classificados como adictos tiveram médias mais baixas em atenção geral (p < 0,035) e mais altas em sintomas comportamentais de desatenção e hiperatividade (p < 0,050), estresse (p < 0,003), ansiedade (p < 0,016) e depressão (p < 0,015), com efeitos que variaram de moderado a alto. Portanto, o uso intenso da internet por adolescentes pode ter consequências psicológicas, como a depressão. Bom apoio familiar e intervenção profissional podem ajudar na redução dos sintomas e consequências, bem como na prevenção da dependência.(AU)


La adicción a Internet es cada vez más habitual, puesto que esta herramienta es esencial para el trabajo remoto, el entretenimiento, la educación domiciliar y el fácil acceso a la información. Sin embargo, su uso exagerado afecta a la vida de las personas de diferentes maneras, incluso en el desarrollo de trastornos psiquiátricos. El objetivo de este estudio fue evaluar la adicción a Internet, depresión, ansiedad, hiperactividad, atención, impulsividad y estrés en 48 adolescentes (26 muchachas y 22 muchachos), de entre 15 y 18 años, con una edad promedio de 16,74 (0,61), en su mayoría estudiantes de escuelas públicas del Sur de Brasil, durante la pandemia de la COVID-19, para investigar las correlaciones entre las variables mencionadas según género y aspectos sociodemográficos. Para evaluar los factores, se aplicaron el Test de Adicción a Internet (TAI), un test de atención, la escala SNAP IV, la Escala de Depresión, Ansiedad y Estrés para adolescentes (EDAE-A), la escala de impulsividad de Barratt y un cuestionario sociodemográfico. Los resultados indicaron que 12 adolescentes fueron considerados adictos a Internet, además, la adicción a Internet fue un predictor de la depresión en el análisis de regresión (p<0,001). Igualmente, los participantes clasificados como más adictos a Internet tuvieron promedios más bajos en atención general (p<0,035), y más altos en síntomas conductuales de falta de atención e hiperactividad (p<0,050), estrés (p<0,003), ansiedad (p<0,016) y depresión (p<0,015), con efectos que varían de moderado a alto. Por lo tanto, el uso intenso podría producir consecuencias psicológicas como la depresión en los adolescentes. Tener un buen apoyo familiar e intervención profesional puede ayudar a reducir los síntomas y las consecuencias de la adicción a Internet, así como prevenirla.(AU)


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Humanos , Masculino , Feminino , Adolescente , Adolescente , Transtorno de Adição à Internet , Dependência de Tecnologia , Transtornos Mentais , Percepção , Desenvolvimento da Personalidade , Fenômenos Psicológicos , Testes Psicológicos , Psicologia , Psicologia Social , Desempenho Psicomotor , Psicopatologia , Psicoterapia , Rejeição em Psicologia , Autoimagem , Transtornos do Sono-Vigília , Ajustamento Social , Alienação Social , Meio Social , Isolamento Social , Ciências Sociais , Socialização , Fatores Socioeconômicos , Sociologia , Estresse Psicológico , Análise e Desempenho de Tarefas , Terapêutica , Tempo , Simplificação do Trabalho , Consultórios Médicos , Transtorno Bipolar , Tédio , Redes de Comunicação de Computadores , Timidez , Atividades Cotidianas , Computadores , Exercício Físico , Terapia Cognitivo-Comportamental , Comorbidade , Córtex Cerebral , Defesa da Criança e do Adolescente , Proteção da Criança , Saúde Mental , Saúde Pública , Reprodutibilidade dos Testes , Comportamento do Adolescente , Comportamento Aditivo , Gerenciamento do Tempo , Cognição , Meios de Comunicação , Comportamento do Consumidor , Manifestações Neurocomportamentais , Transtornos Neurocognitivos , Senso de Humor e Humor , Aconselhamento , Educação a Distância , Afeto , Cultura , Saúde do Adolescente , Transtorno Depressivo , Deslocamento Psicológico , Economia , Emoções , Equipamentos e Provisões , Prevenção de Doenças , Teste de Esforço , Cérebro , Conflito Familiar , Medo , Comportamento Sedentário , Função Executiva , Pandemias , Disfunção Cognitiva , Mídias Sociais , Financiamento Pessoal , Atenção Plena , Habilidades Sociais , Smartphone , Questionário de Saúde do Paciente , Procrastinação , Neuroticismo , Desempenho Acadêmico , Sucesso Acadêmico , Realidade Virtual , Cyberbullying , Redes Sociais Online , Tempo de Tela , Frustração , Análise de Dados , Intervenção Baseada em Internet , Angústia Psicológica , Comparação Social , Interação Social , COVID-19 , Tempo Cognitivo Lento , Jogos Eletrônicos de Movimento , Privação Social , Fatores Sociodemográficos , Transtorno do Comportamento Sexual Compulsivo , Transtorno Desafiador Opositor , Tonsila do Cerebelo , Hostilidade , Visita Domiciliar , Ergonomia , Comportamento Impulsivo , Relações Interpessoais , Introversão Psicológica , Ira , Aprendizagem , Sistema Límbico , Solidão , Processos Mentais , Motivação , Atividade Motora , Movimento , Neurologia
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Psychoneuroendocrinology ; 33(2): 198-213, 2008 Feb.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18079066

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Thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) was first described for its neuroendocrine role in controlling the hypothalamus-pituitary-thyroid axis (HPT). Anatomical and pharmacological data evidence its participation as a neuromodulator in the central nervous system. Administration of TRH induces various behavioural effects including arousal, locomotion, analepsy, and in certain paradigms, it reduces fear behaviours. In this work we studied the possible involvement of TRHergic neurons in anxiety tests. We first tested whether an ICV injection of TRH had behavioural effects on anxiety in the defensive burying test (DBT). Corticosterone serum levels were quantified to evaluate the stress response and, the activity of the HPT axis to distinguish the endocrine response of TRH injection. Compared to a saline injection, TRH reduced cumulative burying, and decreased serum corticosterone levels, supporting anxiolytic-like effects of TRH administration. The response of TRH neurons was evaluated in brain regions involved in the stress circuitry of animals submitted to the DBT and to the elevated plus maze (EPM), tests that allow to correlate biochemical parameters with anxiety-like behaviour. In the DBT, the response of Wistar rats was compared with that of the stress-hypersensitive Wistar Kyoto (WKY) strain. Behavioural parameters were analysed in recorded videos. Animals were sacrificed 30 or 60min after test completion. In various limbic areas, the relative mRNA levels of TRH, its receptors TRH-R1 and -R2, and its inactivating ectoenzyme pyroglutamyl peptidase II (PPII), were determined by RT-PCR, TRH tissue content by radioimmunoassay (RIA). The extent of the stress response was evaluated by measuring the expression profile of CRH, CRH-R1 and GR mRNA in the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) of the hypothalamus and in amygdala, corticosterone levels in serum. As these tests demand increased physical activity, the response of the HPT axis was also evaluated. Both tasks increased the levels of serum corticosterone. WKY rats showed higher anxiety-like behaviour in the DBT than Wistar, as well as increased PVN mRNA levels of CRH and GR. TRH mRNA levels increased in the PVN and TSH values remained unchanged in both strains although TRH content decreased in the medial basal hypothalamus of Wistar rats only. TRH content was measured in several limbic regions but only amygdala showed specific task-related changes after DBT exposure of both strains: increased TRH content. Expression of TRH mRNA decreased in the amygdala of Wistar, suggesting inhibition of TRHergic neuronal activity in this region. The participation of amygdalar TRH neurons in anxiety was confirmed in the EPM where TRH expression and release correlated with the number of entries, and the % of time spent in open arms, supporting an anxiolytic role of these TRH-neurons. These results contribute to the understanding of the involvement of TRH during emotionally charged situations and shed light on the participation of particular circuits in related behaviours.


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Tonsila do Cerebelo/metabolismo , Ansiedade/metabolismo , Comportamento Animal/fisiologia , Deslocamento Psicológico , Hormônio Liberador de Tireotropina/metabolismo , Adaptação Psicológica , Tonsila do Cerebelo/citologia , Análise de Variância , Animais , Corticosterona/sangue , Hormônio Liberador da Corticotropina/genética , Hormônio Liberador da Corticotropina/metabolismo , Mecanismos de Defesa , Perfilação da Expressão Gênica , Sistema Hipotálamo-Hipofisário/metabolismo , Injeções Intraventriculares , Masculino , Neurônios/metabolismo , Sistema Hipófise-Suprarrenal/metabolismo , RNA Mensageiro/análise , Ratos , Ratos Endogâmicos WKY , Ratos Wistar , Tempo de Reação/fisiologia , Receptores de Hormônio Liberador da Corticotropina/genética , Receptores de Hormônio Liberador da Corticotropina/metabolismo , Receptores de Glucocorticoides/genética , Receptores de Glucocorticoides/metabolismo , Especificidade da Espécie , Estatísticas não Paramétricas , Hormônios Tireóideos/sangue , Hormônio Liberador de Tireotropina/administração & dosagem
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Physiol Behav ; 93(1-2): 1-7, 2008 Jan 28.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-17707070

RESUMO

Social affiliation-avoidance behaviors are essential indices of sociality. We examined changes in social affiliation-avoidance behaviors in an open-field apparatus while simultaneously measuring wheel-running activity. Recent studies suggest that mice increase wheel-running activity in stressful situations; thus, we hypothesized that wheel-running activity would reflect a state of social stress and avoidance. Mean duration of wheel-running increased significantly when mice were confronted with unfamiliar mice compared to cage mates. There were negative correlations between the amount of wheel-running and social affiliation indices. We also examined the effect of social defeat on wheel-running activity. Mice that had experienced social defeat significantly increased their wheel-running when an aggressor mouse was present. This social defeat-induced wheel-running activity was ameliorated by the administration of diazepam. Our results indicate that wheel-running activity is relevant to social affiliation-avoidance behaviors and may be a reliable index of anxiety induced by social stress.


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Adaptação Psicológica/fisiologia , Agressão/fisiologia , Atividade Motora/fisiologia , Comportamento Social , Estresse Psicológico/psicologia , Agressão/psicologia , Análise de Variância , Animais , Ansiedade/sangue , Ansiedade/psicologia , Aprendizagem da Esquiva/fisiologia , Pesquisa Comportamental/métodos , Corticosterona/sangue , Deslocamento Psicológico , Masculino , Camundongos , Camundongos Endogâmicos DBA , Meio Social , Estatísticas não Paramétricas , Estresse Psicológico/sangue , Fatores de Tempo
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