University of North Carolina at Greensboro

About: University of North Carolina at Greensboro is a education organization based out in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 5481 authors who have published 13715 publications receiving 456239 citations. The organization is also known as: UNCG & UNC Greensboro.

Hemispheric asymmetry, cardiac response, and performance in elite archers.

Abstract: Previous sport research on elite athletes has shown systematic changes in psychophysiological measures, such as heart rate (HR) deceleration and hemispheric asymmetries in EEG activity, in the few seconds prior to executing a motor response. These changes are believed to be due to a more focused attention on the external environment. Using archery (an attentive state), this investigation was designed to examine: (a) whether hemispheric asymmetry and HR deceleration would occur during the aiming period, and (b) if they did, whether this would affect performance. HR and left and right temporal EEG were recorded from 28 right-handed elite archers for 16 shots. The results indicated that (a) there was no HR deceleration; (b) during the aiming period, EEG alpha activity formed the dominant frequency and this was significantly greater in the left than in the right hemisphere; (c) there were no significant right hemisphere EEG changes in spectral power from 3 s before the shot to arrow release, but ther...

Cognition and event-related potentials. I. The relation of negative potentials and cognitive processes.

Abstract: Department of Neuroscience Albert Einstein College of Medicine Bronx, New York 10461 Department of Psychiatry Veterans Administration Hospital Palo Alto, California 94305 ‘Institute for Perception Soesterberg, the Netherlands dDepartment of Psychology University of North Carolina Greensboro, North Carolina 2741 2 Department of Neurosciences University of California San Diego, California 92093 /Department of Psychology University of Helsinki 00170 Helsinki 17. Finland gDepartment of Neurology University of California Irvine, California 92668 Hospital de la Salpetriere F-75634 Paris, Cedex 13, France ‘ Nebraska Psychiatric Institute Omaha, Nebraska 68106 RISTO NAATANEN! JOHN POLICH: BERNARD

People helping people? Examining the social ties of athletes coping with burnout and injury stress.

Abstract: It is often assumed that important others can play significant roles in reducing stress among athletes. However, little attention has been given to (a) what specifically these important others say or do to reduce stress (empathize vs. motivate), and (b) how prevalent various types (positive vs. negative) of interactions are. This investigation attempted to fill this void. In-depth retrospective interviews were conducted with athletes who experienced burnout (n = 10) or season-ending injuries (n = 21). Inductive analysis revealed that athletes’ evaluations of the specific behaviors of important others tended to vary according to the stress (burnout vs. injury) experienced. Additionally, frequency analysis revealed that athletes described their interactions with important others as negative more often than as positive. The findings are discussed in relation to current conceptualizations of social interactions.

Consequences of Male Partner Violence for Low‐Income Minority Women

Abstract: The current study used a random sample of 563 low-income women to text Johnson's (1995) theory that there are two major forms of male-partner violence, situational couple violence and intimate terrorism, which are distinguished in terms of their embeddedness in a general pattern of control. The study examined the associations between type of violence experienced and respondents' physical health, psychological distress, and economic well-being. Analyses revealed three distinct patterns of partner violence: intimate terrorism, control/no threat, and situational couple violence. Compared to victims of control/no threat and situational couple violence, victims of intimate terrorism reported more injuries from physical violence and more work/activity time lost because of injuries. Compared to women who experienced no violence in the previous year, victims of intimate terrorism reported a greater likelihood of visiting a doctor, poorer health, more psychological distress, and a greater likelihood of receiving government assistance. Key Words: health and women, low socioeconomic status and women, partner violence. We explore the dynamics of violent relationships by testing Johnson's (1995) control typology among a sample of relatively poor minority women. The two main goals of the current study are to validate empirically the distinct types of partner violence specified by Johnson and to examine how these types are differentially related to women's well-being. First, we distinguish between types of partner violence based on the violent partner's use of nonviolent controlling behaviors. Second, we examine how women's physical, psychological, and economic well-being are associated with the type of violence they experienced. AN INTEGRATION OF TWO CONCEPTUALIZATIONS OF PARTNER VIOLENCE Prior to 1995, two distinct perspectives regarding the nature of partner violence, referred to as the family violence perspective and the feminist perspective, existed within the social science literature (Johnson, 1995; Kurz, 1989). Differences in sampling methods led to different conclusions about gender, violence, and power, and ignited rancorous debates among researchers (Kurz; Straus, 1993; Yllo, 1993). Family violence researchers, relying primarily upon large national data sets, have found that women are as likely as their male counterparts to initiate and carry out physical violence against an intimate partner. On average, this gender-symmetric violence tends to be relatively low in frequency and severity. In sharp contrast, feminist researchers focus primarily on clinical populations and use data collected from hospitals, police logs, and safe houses to show that physical violence is only one of many tactics used to control a partner (Kirkwood, 1993) and that batterers (almost always men) increasingly dominate their partners through both frequent and severe violent and nonviolent controlling behavior. Johnson's (1995) conceptual framework attempts to resolve the debate between family violence researchers and feminist researchers. Johnson theorized that family violence and feminist researchers study two very different populations, thereby uncovering different phenomena. Johnson labeled these types of partner violence common couple violence and patriarchal terrorism, subsequently referred to as situational couple violence (Johnson & Leone, in press) and intimate terrorism (Johnson & Ferraro, 2000). The importance of categorizing types of violence, rather than viewing partner violence as a continuum of severity or frequency of physical violence, rests on the assumption that intimate terrorism and situational couple violence involve qualitatively different patterns of control rather than high or low levels of physical violence. According to Johnson, the central difference between situational couple violence and intimate terrorism is the motivation underlying the physical violence, rather than severity or frequency. …