Showing papers in "Journal of Psychosomatic Research in 1979"

TL;DR: The incidence of pre-eclampsia, forceps delivery, prolonged and precipitate labour, primary post-partum haemorrhage, manual removal of the placenta and clinical foetal distress were all significantly higher amongst the high anxiety group.

TL;DR: Two hypotheses are tested which may further explain the results—(1) job satisfaction mediates the effect of work load on circadian rhythm and (2) personality traits produce self-selection into high work load environments—and discuss other interpretations.

TL;DR: It was found that the apgar scores of babies born to highly-anxious mothers was significantly less than those born to mothers with normal anxiety scores.

TL;DR: Psychosocial disability in spouses of post-myocardial infarction patients is documented, with anxious/ depressed spouses were women whose post-infarct husbands were ‘deniers’.

TL;DR: The development of a children's Life events Inventory is reported, using a similar method to Cochrane and Robertson's adult Life Events Inventory, with high agreement between groups of raters (paediatricians, teachers and social workers and individual raters.

TL;DR: The feasibility of developing a pain scale for detecting psychological disturbance in patients with low back pain was investigated in two studies and the best combination of pain terms that would discriminate the functional group from the organic group were identified.

TL;DR: The initial work failed to demonstrate an association between Type A as measured by the Jenkins Activity Survey (JAS) and vessel disease, but on a second cohort of 105 patients, both the JAS and semi-structured interview are used as measures for Type A personality.

TL;DR: It appears that the IBQ may be successfully utilized as a screening instrument in General Practice populations to identify patients manifesting abnormal illness behaviour.

TL;DR: A report of poor contact with the father and a dominating mother was over-represented in sexually-dysfunctional men and man's sexual satisfaction, while related to the emotional relationship to the wife and the child, was not associated with his early parental relations.

TL;DR: Increase in the incidence of glycosuria, changes in prescriptions and frequency of clinic attendance were associated with increases in the reported occurrence of life events and analysis of variance showed that insulin treated groups scored higher on ‘disturbance measures’ than the tablet treated groups.

TL;DR: Life events seen as undesirable, unexpected, and ambiguous in terms of perceived control were positively correlated with increased distress for Type A's, while Type B's were less distressed the more the event was perceived to be beyond their control.

TL;DR: Preliminary data regarding the generalizability of differences in reactivity to casual blood pressure measurements obtained during subjects' ordinary activities indicated that SBP-reactors experienced higher peak casual SBPs and greater SBP variability over a six-week interval than didSBP-nonreactors.

TL;DR: A similar inverse linear relationship of decreasing accuracy of self perception with decreasing width of body part was found in both the anorexic and schoolgirl populations, and the relationship was less evident in the older subjects.

TL;DR: As a group the anorectics' predominant symptom was depression, but the overall mental state was quite distinct from that of published series of depressives.

TL;DR: The findings of this exploratory work suggest that high anxiety levels may serve a protective function and that anxiety in patients without a history of MI may be an important factor in the decision to have them referred for diagnostic coronary angiography.

TL;DR: Complete relief from angina was found to be associated with the following combination of attitudes: high responsiveness to reassurance, low interpersonal discord, high illness vulnerability, low pain-related illness anxiety, low irritability, and low health concern.

TL;DR: The results suggest that the mere occurrence of stressing events does not predispose to the development of low back pain, even among persons without evidence of organic disease.

TL;DR: There was a moderate correlation between objective recordings and the patient's subjective assessment of asthma severity, and no significant difference was shown between respiratory function recorded before and after relaxation treatment in each of the individual treatment sessions.

TL;DR: The exclusion of questionably classified subjects by either method of Type A assessment did not produce a significant relationship with extent of vessel disease and the possibility that conflicting results on the association between Type A personality and angiographic findings may be attributable to differences in the population characteristics of each sample studied.

TL;DR: The authors conclude that parental overprotection associated with asthma is likely to reflect an adaptational response by parents to a child with a chronic, unpredictable illness arousing high levels of anxiety in parents.

TL;DR: Heart rate was demonstrated to be under genetic influence both at rest and during interview, and two measures of Type A behavior as well as “muscular tension” and “impulsivitiy” showed evidence of genetic influence.

TL;DR: Differences in genetic constitution and external physical environment as well as in eating, smoking and drinking habits have to be taken into consideration in attempting to explain the differences in mortality rates in Ischemic Heart Disease.

TL;DR: The results indicated that the depressive mood state was succesffully manipulated, yet mood state did not differentially affect responses to the LES.

TL;DR: In this article, three time phases in the life cycles of Holocaust survivors are studied in terms of coping behaviour and social support, in order to evaluate the presence of social support systems as a central factor in protecting victims of social stress, as well as aiding in their rehabilitation and maintaining their social adaptation.

TL;DR: The effects of the Respiratory Autogenic Training for childbirth preparation on relaxation and anxiety during the course and on pain and behaviour during delivery were compared with those of the traditional psychoprophylactic course in primipara.

TL;DR: The results indicate that the onset of asthma may be the end-product of the synergic effects of various factors, the contribution of each group (somatic, psychic and psychosocial) probably differing according to age at onset.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that the time at which anxiety is measured is important if persistently anxious patients are to be correctly identified and given appropriate rehabilitation.