Capacity for absorption and relaxation during electromyograph biofeedback and no-feedback conditions.

Qualls, Penelope J.; Sheehan, Peter W.

doi:10.1037/0021-843x.88.6.652

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“…The third hypothesis was supported in terms of high absorbers, and a new direction of inquiry discovered with a low absorption effect. Past research has shown that high absorbers respond more to internal imaginal techniques rather than external biofeedback techniques, which appeal more to low absorbers (Quails & Sheehan, 1979. Perhaps low absorbers' decrease may be attributed to antipathy toward this type of intervention.…”

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confidence: 97%

“…Other previous work (Hall et al, 1981(Hall et al, , 1992 had specifically implicated individual differences like hypnotizability, which are related to absorption (O'Grady, 1980;Tellegen & Atkinson, 1974;TeUegen, 1987), in producing immune responses. High absorbers have reported subjective, imaginal experiences as their preferred relaxation mode (Quails & Sheehan, 1981), and have reacted more intensely to relaxation with imagery than relaxation alone (Quails & Sheehan, 1979). Moreover, of all individual difference measures tested, only absorption level forecasted anticipatory nausea to chemotherapy, which also responds efficaciously to relaxation techniques (Challis & Stamm, 1992).…”

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confidence: 96%

“…Absorption is an intent concentration ability evoking intense physiological responses to mental events (Quails & Sheehan, 1979Tellegen & Atkinson, 1974;Tellegen 1987). Other previous work (Hall et al, 1981(Hall et al, , 1992 had specifically implicated individual differences like hypnotizability, which are related to absorption (O'Grady, 1980;Tellegen & Atkinson, 1974;TeUegen, 1987), in producing immune responses.…”

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Absorption and imagery locate immune responses in the body

Gregerson

Roberts

Amiri³

1996

Biofeedback and Self-Regulation

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Imagery instructions specifying mucosal immunity should alter mucosal immunoglobulin A (m-IgA) levels in high absorbers, whose intent concentration evokes intense physiological responses. After screening for health status, 121 high or low absorbers were randomly assigned to either Relaxation Alone (R), Relaxation with Mucosal Immune Imagery (RI), or Vigilance Task control (VT). Before and after one 60-min intervention, subjects reported theory-relevant psychological variables and provided 5 ml whole saliva, which was immediately frozen and assayed later en masse with enzyme-linked immunoabsorbence (ELISA). MANOVA analysis of psychological variables replicated past research. ANOVA on residualized m-IgA found Time x Absorption interaction and Condition main effects. High more than low absorbers responded to relaxation with mucosal immune imagery by producing higher m-IgA. High absorbers appear able to locate where their immune systems will respond. Individual differences like absorption level need to be emphasized in diagnosis and treatment responsiveness.

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Absorption and imagery locate immune responses in the body

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Roberts

Amiri³

1996

Biofeedback and Self-Regulation

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“…That is, they may place more meaning and personal relevance in the stressful events that affect them and act (cognitively or instrumentally) to correct the situation to the extent possible. We mention this alternative because there have been criticisms of work purporting to show that self-conscious subjects are more accurate in assessing changes in physiologic state (44). One view is that self-conscious subjects are not inherently more accurate; rather, they react with greater arousal to stress and, as a result, the arousal is easier to detect.…”

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Self-attention, life stress, and illness: a prospective study.

Suls

Fletcher²

1985

Psychosomatic Medicine

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Using a prospective design, this study examined the hypothesis that a predisposition to focus on internal aspects of the self serves as a stress resistance resource. One hundred and twenty subjects filled out the Private Self-Consciousness inventory, a schedule of recent life events and a symptom checklist. Two months later they were asked again to report life events and symptoms that had occurred in the interval. Data were analyzed by means of hierarchical panel analysis. The results showed, consistent with the hypothesis, that incidence of stressful life events predicted subsequent illness among persons low in private self-consciousness but not in persons high in private self-consciousness. It is proposed that the tendency on the part of persons low in private self-consciousness to disattend to their psychologic and somatic reactions to stressful life events and to fail to take corrective actions may lead to lowered body resistance over time and hence increase their susceptibility to physical illness. The results are interpreted as consistent with Schwartz's concept of disregulation and control systems analysis of health behavior and Leventhal's work on the role of internal monitoring for coping with stress.

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“…They also suggest that the skills that are critical for the efficacy of cognitively based behavior therapies for pain reduction may be the same skills that are critical determinants of hypnotic susceptibility, namely, involvement and absorption in one's imaginings. Absorption has also been implicated as an important predictor of the efficacy of electromyographic biofeedback for reducing muscle tension (41,42). Quails and Sheehan (42) found that conditions that encouraged a withdrawal from the external environment (i.e., increased imaginative involvement) led to greater relaxation in high-absorption subjects than low-absorption subjects.…”

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The Effects of a Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment Program on Temporo-Mandibular Pain and Dysfunction Syndrome

Stam

McGrath

Brooke

1984

Psychosomatic Medicine

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Sixty-one patients clearly diagnosed as suffering from Temporo-Mandibular Pain and Dysfunction Syndrome (TMPDS) were randomly assigned to one of three groups, 1) hypnosis and cognitive coping skills, 2) relaxation and cognitive coping skills, or 3) a no-treatment control group. All patients were evaluated with a standard hypnotic susceptibility scale before treatment. The two treatment groups received four weekly sessions of their respective treatments. Patients in the hypnosis and relaxation groups reported equivalent decrements in pain, abnormal sounds in the temporomandibular joint, and limitations of jaw mobility. Hypnotic susceptibility was significantly correlated with reductions in reported pain for the treatment groups. Patients' age and the duration of pain before treatment were not related to treatment outcome. Patients who dropped out of treatment had fewer limitations in jaw movement but did not differ in any other variable from patients who remained in treatment. These findings are discussed in relation to the hypothesis that Temporo-Mandibular Pain and Dysfunction Syndrome is stress-related muscular pain and dysfunction.

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Capacity for absorption and relaxation during electromyograph biofeedback and no-feedback conditions.

Cited by 53 publications

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Absorption and imagery locate immune responses in the body

Absorption and imagery locate immune responses in the body

Self-attention, life stress, and illness: a prospective study.

The Effects of a Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment Program on Temporo-Mandibular Pain and Dysfunction Syndrome

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