Discovering and promoting ways that help regulate emotions has been a recurrent concern in the field of psychology, given that how one feels and reacts to and expresses emotions can have both short- and long-term effects on physical and mental health. Many psychological strategies that can influence this process, such as reappraisal, attention allocation, and suppression, have been previously investigated. The aim of the present work was to review the emotion regulation potential of yoga practice, given that it combines techniques that foster positive psychological outcomes. The results suggest that yoga produces improvements in emotional functioning in healthy subjects and people who suffer from some physical illnesses, particularly in psychological self-reported variables. Evidence regarding behavioral and neurophysiological correlates remains less well-established. Mechanisms that possibly mediate the relationship between yoga and emotion regulation are discussed and methodologies are considered, with suggestions for future studies. In summary, emerging evidence suggests that yoga may help foster healthier psychological responses, indicating its potential as an emotion regulation strategy.
Recognizing emotional expressions is enabled by a fundamental sociocognitive mechanism of human nature. This study compared 114 women and 104 men on the identification of basic emotions on a recognition task that used culturally adapted and validated faces to the Brazilian context. It was also investigated whether gender differences on emotion recognition would vary according to different exposure times. Women were generally better at detecting facial expressions, but an interaction suggested that the female superiority was particularly observed for anger, disgust, and surprise; results did not change according to age or time exposure. However, regardless of sex, total accuracy improved as presentation times increased, but only fear and anger significantly differed between the presentation times. Hence, in addition to the support of the evolutionary hypothesis of the female superiority in detecting facial expressions of emotions, recognition of facial expressions also depend on the time available to correctly identify an expression.
ResumenCrianças com Transtorno do Espectro do Autismo (TEA) apresentam dificuldades na comunicação e interação social e padrões de comportamentos repetitivos e restritos. Com objetivo de verificar se a presença do cão na sessão terapêutica com crianças com TEA seria um aspecto motivador, foi realizado um estudo com 24 crianças na faixa etária de três a dez anos. Os resultados obtidos neste estudo foram tabulados e analisados de maneira inferencial, e a diferença entre as médias do tempo de reação foi utilizado o teste Mann Whitney. As diferenças significativas foram comprovadas através de um p-valor ≤0,005. Este estudo demonstrou que as crianças do grupo controle apresentam uma média maior de tempo de reação à sessão em relação às do grupo experimental. Palabras clave: motivação, terapia assistida por animais, transtorno do espectro do autismo AbstractChildren with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) present difficulties in communication and social interaction and patterns of repetitive and restricted behaviors. In order to verify if the presence of the dog in the therapeutic session with children with ASD would be a motivating aspect, a study was carried out with 24 children in the age group of three to ten years. The results obtained in this study were tabulated and analyzed in an inferential way, and the difference between the means of the reaction time was used the Mann Whitney test. The significant differences were verified through a p-value ≤0.005. This study demonstrated that the children in the control group had a higher average reaction time to the session compared to the experimental group.
Resumo Trata-se de um estudo brasileiro, transversal, mediado pela Internet com o objetivo de descrever como diferenças temperamentais associam-se ao uso de oito práticas de medicina alternativa e complementar (MAC): ioga, meditação, reiki, acupuntura, massagem, tai chi chuan, homeopatia e floral. A amostra foi composta por 22.415 indivíduos, sendo 69,5% mulheres, com idade média de 28,8 anos (DP = 9,1). As práticas mais utilizadas foram massagem e ioga e as variáveis sexo, idade, renda e diagnóstico psicopatológico ao longo da vida associaram-se a todas as práticas, exceto com tai chi chuan. Análise inferencial se baseou em modelo de regressão logística e os resultados foram calculados com base na razão de chances com intervalo de confiança de 95%. Observou-se que manifestações adaptativas de traços e de tipos psicológicos, associaram-se a maiores chances de praticar MAC. Resultados sugerem que perfis com maior regulação emocional tendem a utilizar mais frequentemente MAC e, possivelmente, obter benefícios.
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