Showing papers in "Journal of Psychosomatic Research in 1980"

TL;DR: The dissociation between pituitary- adrenal and sympathetic-adrenal activity is illustrated by data from a monotonous vigilance task inducing both effort and distress, and a concomitant increase of adrenalin as well as cortisol excretion.

TL;DR: The clinical features, treatment, course and outcome of a consecutive series of 102 anorexia nervosa patients are reported in detail, and a disturbed premorbid relationship between patient and parents was found and this was often related to a disturbed parental relationship.

TL;DR: Several characteristics emerged as more or less distinctive of anorexic patients, including obsessional character structure, interpersonal insecurity, minimization of affect, excessive conformance and regimentation of behavior, and heightened industriousness and responsibility.

TL;DR: In this paper, body weight and mental symptoms were examined in 37 women with normal pregnancies, deliveries, and puerperia, for the first seven days post partum, with and without symptoms.

TL;DR: Clear evidence of a psychosomatic component in colds was obtained and Introverts developed significantly worse symptoms and infections than Extraverts and life events, when they involved change in the person's general level of activity, were significantly related to magnitude of infection.

TL;DR: The findings of this study seriously challenge the use of differential weights in the measurement of life event changes with respect to the Schedule of Recent Events and the Social Readjustment Rating Scale.

TL;DR: Anxiety, participation in preparatory classes and maternal attitudinal sets were examined in a population of women attending a University Hospital outpatient obstetrical clinic and class participation and maternal attitudes were found to be significantly predictive of pain ratings during labor.

TL;DR: Routine inclusion of multidimensional assessment methods is recommended in the course of studying episiotomy pain in a small group of women because of wide variation in the distribution of ratings between scales.

TL;DR: Patients suffering from a chronic psychophysiological orofacial pain disorder, Myofascial Pain Dysfunction Syndrome, had lower pain thresholds, were less able to discriminate varying intensities of pressure stimulation and demonstrated a greater tendency to report pain as compared to normal control subjects.

TL;DR: The present study, of a more rural population and aged 17–70 yr, has revealed the same association in men aged 40 yr and older and found this to be due to the strength of the association amongst the working class segment of that population.

TL;DR: There were no differences among any PRN usage groups in the actual severity of the asthma, but differences did exist along psychological dimensions, including general personality, and more specifically in how asthma and its treatment were viewed and experienced.

TL;DR: In this paper, healthy subjects classified as Type A and Type B persons on the basis of a questionnaire measuring coronary-prone behavior were compared in terms of psychophysiological arousal during periods of inactivity and strenuous mental work.

TL;DR: Aspects of sexuality in 70-yr-old men and women investigated as part of a population study in Gothenburg, Sweden found men who continued to have sexual intercourse had seldom suffered early parental death, seldom woke up during the night, had better mental health according to a global rating, and had a more positive attitude towards sexual activity among the aged.

TL;DR: Four cases of protracted self-induced vomiting are described and the development and complications of this behaviour are discussed as is its relationship to other eating disorders.

TL;DR: It is concluded that the high brain levels of nicotine obtained from the rapid inhalation-bolus form of intake makes cigarette smoking one of the most addictive of the addictive behaviours.

TL;DR: Stealing occurs in at least 14% of patients with anorexia nervosa, and arises in those, usually chronically ill, and whose current eating pattern is one of intermittent or sustained bingeing coupled with vomiting as a means of sustaining low body weight.

TL;DR: Neither attendance at childbirth education classes nor the experimental treatments administered during labour significantly reduced maternal anxiety, supporting the psychoanalytic notion of childbirth as a psychological crisis.

TL;DR: Ten methodological problems in the design and reporting of life events research are discussed and suggestions made: description of samples used; item selection; standardization of conditions of collection of life event data; validity checks on event reporting.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors measured the expectation of success from medical treatment for back pain in 95 patients seen at a hospital orthopaedic clinic and compared the degree of subjective relief provided by several different medical treatments.

TL;DR: Overall variation in performance over different phases of the cycle did not reach significance, but tended to do so with increasing difficulty of task, and at the most difficult level of task there is evidence for a small association between actually experiencing symptoms and decrement in performance.

TL;DR: Differences in attributional strategies among Type A's and B's could possibly mediate the relationship between Type A, helplessness and heart disease.

TL;DR: It is indicated that attitudinal and behavioral aspects of CPB contribute to angina pectoris and perhaps indirectly to atherosclerosis.

TL;DR: Investigation of differences in the perceived magnitude oflife events and in the reported experience of life events between men and women and between a chronically ill diabetic population and a control population of healthy subjects finds that both diabetic and healthy women rated life events as more upsetting and requiring more adjustment.

TL;DR: Three Lamaze childbirth techniques were analyzed in a 2 × 2 × 3 factorial design and a relationship existed between situation-specific expectancies and pain self-reports and treatment did not differentially affect self-reported pain or anxiety.

TL;DR: Comparison of their questionnaire replies in 1974 and 1976 showed that those adolescents who smoked underestimated the health hazards of smoking, considered smoking pleasurable, and reported strong peer pressure to continue smoking, but among girls some of these characteristics were less apparent, suggesting that girls are more concerned about their health, and are less expected to smoke at this age.

TL;DR: Neuroticism, low self-esteem and female sex emerged as significant predictors of reported depressive experience in response to a number of precipitants suggesting their relevance as vulnerability factors.

TL;DR: The general findings were that distortion status (particularly OE) on the symptom severity item, but not on the prognosis item, was associated with a significant excess of psychiatric symptoms.

TL;DR: Findings indicate that the changes in heart rate that occur with biofeedback training are due in large part to changes in respiration.

TL;DR: Research results in four areas of meditation are reviewed: the psychophysiological correlates of meditation; personality change associated with learning and regularly practising meditation; the use of meditation as a therapy and theUse of meditation in stress-related disorders.

TL;DR: Evidence is provided that EMG biofeedback training can reduce EMG levels under stressful as well as non-stressful conditions, and that this effect will transfer to a stressful non-training situation, but the fact that the EMG reductions were generally not accompanied by reductions in arousal suggests that EMg biofeedbacks may have limited effectiveness as a general procedure for coping with stress.