Psychological adaptation and salutogenesis in space: Lessons from a series of studies

Ritsher, Jennifer Boyd; Kanas, Nick; Ihle, Eva C.; Saylor, Stephanie

doi:10.1016/j.actaastro.2006.09.002

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“…Like the Shuttle/Mir launch, although their levels of Managerial Control were higher during the missions [Ritsher et al, 2007].…”

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“…In fact, they generally score lower on the negative subscales (and higher on the positive subscales) than normative samples of people in other work settings on Earth [Kanas et al, 2001a]. Furthermore, analyses of their pre-flight versus in-flight emotions showed that for the ISS crewmembers, their moods were more positive during the missions than before launch, where their mood scores were similar to those of mission control personnel [Ritsher et al, 2007]. Thus, it is possible that due to personality and training factors, space crewmembers do not on average experience the extremes of homesickness and other negative emotions during the course of a long mission as compared with participants in space analog environments on the Earth, such as in submarines or polar bases.…”

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Space Psychology and Psychiatry

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“…Like the Shuttle/Mir launch, although their levels of Managerial Control were higher during the missions [Ritsher et al, 2007].…”

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Space Psychology and Psychiatry

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“…Whilst findings from prior research suggest that groups operating in extreme settings may be vulnerable to psychological disruption, certain studies offer a contrasting view and negate the suggestion of a decline in functioning in challenging environments (cf. Ritsher, Kanas, Ihle, & Saylor, ). Given the equivocal nature of the findings to date, further research is needed to elucidate when challenging events may occur, and the subsequent changes (in the present case, changes in affect) that individuals experience when completing activities in extreme environments.…”

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Monitoring daily events, coping strategies, and emotion during a desert expedition in the Middle East

2018

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Personnel operating in extreme environmental conditions are exposed to a variety of stressors. Whether a person adjusts to the conditions and is able to cope has implications for their psychological health. In previous extreme-environment work, temporal changes in stress, coping, and emotion have been reported. Building on previous studies, we used a diary methodology to explore temporal changes in and associations between daily events, coping strategies, and affect during a unique hyperarid desert expedition. Four participants undertaking a crossing of the Empty Quarter desert were recruited to the study. Participants completed pre-expedition, postexpedition, and 4-month follow-up questionnaires. A daily self-report diary was used to collect situational data. Time-based changes were analysed before testing predictive models linking events and coping strategies with affective responses. Findings suggest that participants had an overall positive experience. There were changes in both the events experienced and coping strategies used during the expedition. Variation in events and coping strategies significantly predicted fluctuations in positive and negative affect. Results offer valuable mechanistic information that could inform monitoring systems aimed at tracking psychological variables during operations in extreme environments. Results are discussed in relation to the novel context, diary methodology, and implications for those operating in extremes.

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“…It seems that simulating weightlessness induces psychological stress (Chouke` r et al, 2001; Grigor'ev & Fedorov 1996;Ishizaki et al, 2002). On the other hand, studies of such analogue environments have shown processes linked to adaptation to environmental constraints (Kanas & Manzey, 2003;Ritsher, Kanas, Ihle, & Saylor, 2007). Consequently, bed rest studies in healthy volunteers provide a unique opportunity to examine the time-course of these stress and recovery states and the effect of exercise on these psychological variables.…”

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Stress and recovery assessment during simulated microgravity: Effects of exercise during a long-term head-down tilt bed rest in women

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2009

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. Stress and recovery assessment during simulated microgravity: Effects of exercise during a long-term head down tilt bed rest in women.. Journal of Environmental Psychology, Elsevier, 2009, pp.522-528. Stress and recovery assessment during simulated microgravity: Effects of exercise during a long-term head-down tilt bed rest in women Michel Nicolas, Karine Weiss AbstractThe aim of this study was to determine the effects of a 60-day head-down tilt long-term bed rest (HDT) on stress and recovery in sixteen healthy female volunteers. Participants were randomly assigned to either an exercise group (Exe) that followed a training program combining resistive and aerobic exercises, or to a no-exercise control group (Ctl). Psychological states were assessed using the Rest-Q, a validated questionnaire based on stress-recovery responses. A longitudinal analysis revealed significant changes in the general and specific-stress scales for all participants throughout the experiment with a critical stage from supine to standing posture leading to a significant decrease in physical recovery. During HDT, Exe reported higher scores on stress subscales, as well as lower recovery scores compared to the Ctl. During the post-HDT ambulatory recovery period, the exercisers still reported higher scores than the non-exercisers on the Lack of energy stressrelated scale, along with lower scores in general wellbeing and personal accomplishment. The present findings show that simulated weightlessness such as HDT may induce psychological stress and lead to subsequent alterations in perceived recovery. Exercise did not reduce HDT impaired effects on stress and recovery states. Several suggestions, including psychological preparation, are proposed to support the beneficial effects of exercise on psychological factors. Keywords:Bed rest ; Exercise countermeasures ; Recovery ; Space simulation ; Stress Manned spaceflights can be defined as an extreme environment because of the high level of constraints linked to numerous unfamiliar conditions including microgravity, monotony, lack of comfort, boredom, confinement and isolation (Kanas & Manzey, 2003;Suedfeld, 2005). Most of these constraints are present in space simulation experiments such as long-term bed rest (LTBR) which can also be considered as an extreme environment. LTBR not only constitutes a validated physiological model of spaceflights (e.g. Lathers & Charles, 1994;Louisy, Berry, Marini, Guell, & Guezennec, 1995;Sonnenfeld et al., 2007), but also provides good psychological analogues (Weiss & Moser, 1998). LTBR is typified by ''deprivation including the lack of customary amenities, isolation from the home community, confinement with a relatively small number of other people, lack of privacy, difficult and demanding tasks, limited opportunities for communication, and a degree of dependence on outsiders' ' (Harrison, 2005). Previous investigations have shown that simulated microgravity, along with immobilization in bed, accompanied by environmental constraints, induced ...

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Psychological adaptation and salutogenesis in space: Lessons from a series of studies

Cited by 36 publications

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Space Psychology and Psychiatry

Space Psychology and Psychiatry

Monitoring daily events, coping strategies, and emotion during a desert expedition in the Middle East

Stress and recovery assessment during simulated microgravity: Effects of exercise during a long-term head-down tilt bed rest in women

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