Trait and state anxiety in patients treated with intensive short-term group psychotherapy for neurotic and personality disorders.

Mielimąka, Michał; Rutkowski, Krzysztof; Cyranka, Katarzyna; Sobański, Jerzy; Dembińska, Edyta; Müldner-Nieckowski, Łukasz

doi:10.12740/pp/onlinefirst/60537

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“…Unlike fear, this anticipation is an internal process which is not associated with imminent danger but accompanied by cognitive perceptions of experiencing danger. In evolutionary terms, anxiety as a threat signal enabled people to adapt to changes in the environment and motivated them to take protective measures allowing to survive [61]. In our study, young asthmatics had lower levels of anxiety, dyspnea and depression.…”

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Comparative analysis of clinical, physiological, temperamental and personality characteristics of elderly subjects and young subjects with asthma

2020

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Background Asthma is a heterogeneous disease of a complex etiology in which genetic, environmental and personality variables are important factors determining the development of complicated strategies related to coping with stress and temperament traits. Our thesis is that coping styles in asthmatic patients are modified by the environment (chronic inflammation and stress) which affects individual temperament traits in the course of time. Thus, patient age is one of factors which determine the clinical image of asthma and its natural history. Aim The aim of the study was to evaluate the variables describing stress coping styles and temperament in young (18 to 35 years old) and elderly asthmatics (aged ≥60 years). Material and methods A total of 200 patients, 104 elderly and 96 young asthmatics were enrolled in the study. Apart from medical examination, the following tests were performed in all subjects: the Formal Characteristics of Behavior- Temperament Inventory (FCB-TI), Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations (CISS), Beck Depression Inventory, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, and Borg Rating of Perceived Exertion (RPE) Scale. Results Elderly patients with asthma exhibited higher intensity of anxiety as a trait, a higher level of depression and experienced dyspnea, as well as higher levels of stress coping strategies such as Avoidance-Oriented Coping (AOC), Distraction Seeking (DS) and Social Diversion (SD) compared to young asthmatics. In elderly patients, Perseverance and Sensory Sensitivity traits have been observed to decline with the duration and development of asthma at later life stages as opposed to young asthmatics, in whom these temperament characteristics are elevated. Conclusions Asthma is a heterogeneous disease of a complex etiopathogenesis that has a complex interplay with mental health. The present study confirms a relationship between age and stress coping strategies as well as temperament traits.

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confidence: 51%

Comparative analysis of clinical, physiological, temperamental and personality characteristics of elderly subjects and young subjects with asthma

2020

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“…Anxiety is defined as an emotional state associated with the feeling of an unjustified threat from inside the body or from the external environment [28,29]. From a psychopathological point of view, there are two main types of anxiety.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In the second case, trait anxiety, the so-called a condition in which there is a chronically increased readiness to respond to various stressful situations. It is important to be able to distinguish anxiety as a trait and emotional state [29].…”

Section: Anxiety and Internet Addictionmentioning

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The relationship between internet addiction and mental health problems such as depression symptoms, anxiety and insomnia before and during Covid-19 pandemic

Biedroń

Szabat

Dąbrowski

et al. 2021

J Educ Health Sport

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Introduction: On the account of the Covid-19 pandemic, many governments around the world have imposed multiple restrictions on public life to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Social disruption and forced isolation contributed to increased stress as well as increased use of the Internet.Aim of the study: The aim of the study was to investigate the influence of the Covid-19 pandemic on mental health problems, including Internet addiction, and to link Internet addiction with mental health problems such as anxiety, depression symptoms and insomnia.Material and methods: The data for the article was found using the PubMed and Google Scholar websites.Description of the state of knowledge: Internet addiction (IA) is becoming an increasingly serious problem of the modern world. The problem of Internet abuse is associated with various risk factors that are dependent on gender or family relationships, as well as mental disorders.Many studies have confirmed that the Covid-19 pandemic caused negative mental health effects, contributing to increased anxiety and depression symptoms. To reduce stress, people started using the internet more often. This compensatory mechanism can cause even more mental health problems by increasing anxiety, symptoms of depression and insomnia.Summary: Research by many scientists shows that the Covid-19 pandemic is exacerbating the mental health problems associated with IA. Research shows that during the Covid-19 pandemic, it is especially important to be able to manage stress through non-internet-related activities to help prevent IA.

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“…The presence of personality factors in the course of functional diseases had been forecast for many years and most of the psychological questionnaires contain the dimension of "neuroticism" (Eysenck's Personality Theory -EPT), "neurotic tension" (16 PF-The Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire, scales of MMPI-2-Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory) [12], "trait-anxiety" (The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory-STAI) [13], etc. However, the respective scales are constructed from items concerning the presence of symptoms.…”

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Reflection on the possibility of alternative approach to the psychopathology of “functional” disorders

Aleksandrowicz¹

2016

Arch Psych Psych

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SummaryFunctional short-term disorders provoked by extremely difficult life events are entirely different from the chronic or recurrent ones: anxiety or other "neurotic" syndromes, eating, sexual and some other disorders, not being conditioned behavioral dysfunctions. Chronic/ recurrent disorders seem to have they causes in particular personality traits and deficits. Some of them are revealed, described and could be measured by means of Neurotic Personality Questionnaire KON 2006. In this approach, functional disorder is understood as a structured systems of the particular nonverbal language ("parole") in which symptoms play a role of words while syndromes the role of sentences, expressing the current state of mind -mainly the need of bond with other people and its frustration. They are messages of looking attention, attachment. The use of such language seems to be the result of personality deficits making difficult or even impossible to fulfil the need of bond in the psychosocial field using common for done culture verbal and nonverbal language, "normal" means of communication. While in the acute and conditioned reactions on stress different forms of helping people (e.g. CBT) seems to be adequate, in the chronic and recurrent functional disorders therapy is postulated to aiming rather at transformations of the communication, leading to the exchange of the messages' language having the quality of disorder for common, mainly verbal one. functional disorders /psychopathology/communication Some doubtful paradigms of contemporary psychopathology of functional disordersThe psychopathology and classification of mental health dysfunctions is based on the "phenomenological approach", understood as the description of visible phenomena, mainly symptoms. Groups of symptoms that are more or less distinguished from others and observed repeatedly (at least to some extent) are considered "disorders" or "diseases" and become elements of classification systems. Where borders between such classes are unclear, serious difficulties arise in the diagnostic tasks and from time to time initiatives are called forth to reconstruct them and to "discover" new items ("independent disorders"). This creates an impression of progress of science, being as a matter of fact only an attempt at introducing another, also artificial, order in the chaotic pool of data.It is also problematic that classification systems seem to be subordinated to the rules of administrative tendency for grouping no more than 10 elements in one wide category. For this reason, if there are more than 10 similar "disorders", some are arbitrarily placed into a separate category. This rule proved more important in the differentiation of an independent category

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Trait and state anxiety in patients treated with intensive short-term group psychotherapy for neurotic and personality disorders.

Cited by 9 publications

References 26 publications

Comparative analysis of clinical, physiological, temperamental and personality characteristics of elderly subjects and young subjects with asthma

Comparative analysis of clinical, physiological, temperamental and personality characteristics of elderly subjects and young subjects with asthma

The relationship between internet addiction and mental health problems such as depression symptoms, anxiety and insomnia before and during Covid-19 pandemic

Reflection on the possibility of alternative approach to the psychopathology of “functional” disorders

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