Severe Growing-Up Phobia, a Condition Explained in a 14-Year-Old Boy

Perales-Blum, Laurencia; Juárez-Treviño, Myrthala; Escobedo-Belloc, Daniela

doi:10.1155/2014/706439

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“…Studies have shown that gerascophobia is associated with harmful health consequences such as the increased risk of chronic diseases including cardiovascular problems and depression (8,10,11). For example, a 14-year-old boy perceived his body's growth as a threat due to his fear of aging, to the extent that he took drastic measures to stop growth, such as restricting what he ate, and showed negative attitudes toward puberty (12).…”

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Gerascophobia and its Related Factors in Medical Students of Kerman University of Medical Sciences

Borhaninejad,

Amirmahani,

Danaei

et al. 2024

Health and Development Journal

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Background: Gerascophobia is one of the factors affecting people’s quality of life. The present study sought to examine gerascophobia and its related factors in medical students at Kerman University of Medical Sciences. Methods: The participants in this cross-sectional study were medical students of Kerman University of Medical Sciences in 2023, who were selected using non-probability quota sampling. The data were collected using Lasher and Faulkender’s Anxiety about Aging Scale (AAS) and analyzed with SPSS-26 software. Results: The participants in this study were 230 medical students. The participants’ average age was 22.95±2.38 years, and 61.3% of the students were female. The mean scores for gerascophobia and the subscales of fear of old people, psychological concerns, physical appearance, and fear of loss were 57.66, 14.15, 13.20, 14.61, and 16.51, respectively. The linear regression analysis showed that the average fear of aging was higher in female students (P=0.019) and the students who did not have job experience and the experience of caring for older adults (P=0.007). Conclusion: In line with findings from the present study, it can be argued that to reduce gerascophobia and create a more positive attitude toward aging in medical students, suitable facilities should be provided to create more contact between medical students, especially female students, and older adults during their studies.

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Gerascophobia and its Related Factors in Medical Students of Kerman University of Medical Sciences

Borhaninejad,

Amirmahani,

Danaei

et al. 2024

Health and Development Journal

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“…Excessive fears will be a symptom of phobias that adversely affect the quality of life (Theofilou, 2013;Jarymowicz & Bar-tal, 2006). Decreased quality of life certainly has an influence on stress and mental disorders which are considered as risk factors that correlate to the subsequent development of mental disorders and other illnesses with consequences such as anxiety disorders, panic, depression, mood affective disorders, insomnia, parkinsonism, heart disease, decreased appetite, gastric pains, migraines, infectious diseases, drug abuse, drug dependence, and worse, suicide attempts (Safren, 1996;Fahlen, 1996;Lichtenberg, 1991;Pitkanen et al, 2009;Perales et al, 2014).…”

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Effect of Hypnotherapy in Reducing Phobia Symptoms

Auna

2020

IJNMS

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A phobia from the perspective of psychoanalysis is a traumatic experience of the past which is repressed into the unconscious. Hypnotherapy is used to help someone easily, quickly, effectively, efficiently in reaching the subconscious mind, re-educating, reducing physiological and psychological symptoms caused by phobias and giving them more control in everyday situations. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of hypnotherapy in reducing phobia symptoms. This research is aresearch pre-experimental using one-group pre-post test design. Participants numbered 20 people. The sampling technique used sampling incidental. The questionnaire in this study used the Fear Questionnaire (FQ). The results showed a characteristic age of 22 years, the majority of phobias were found in 80% women and 20% men. Based on the paired sample t-test results obtained data indicate that thevalue Asymp. Sig. 0,000 <0.05, which means that there is a significant change in the decrease in phobia symptoms by 51.87% after hypnotherapy. This study concluded that hypnotherapy was effective in reducing phobia symptoms with 2 therapy sessions in 4 meetings.

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Unveiling (In)Vulnerability in an Adolescent’s Consumption Subculture: A Framework to Understand Adolescents’ Experienced (In)Vulnerability and Ethical Implications

Batat

Tanner

2019

J Bus Ethics

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Consumer (in)vulnerability is studied via a quasi-ethnographic longitudinal study of adolescents aged 11-15. The study focuses on how adolescents define their vulnerabilities within their adolescent consumption subcultures, the factors enhancing this vulnerability, and the social actors involved in their experience of vulnerability. The findings contribute to consumer vulnerability literature in three ways. First, by adopting an adolescent-centric approach based on an emic perspective, we go beyond the monolithic approach of studying one source of vulnerability at a time seen in present marketing literature. Instead, we introduce a polyadic or multiple simultaneous approaches that can consider risk sources. Second, the findings show that adolescents' perceptions of consumer vulnerability are anchored within their consumption subcultures. This study introduces the concept that young consumers experience vulnerability in multiple ways, including imposed by adults or by adolescents deliberately engaging in risky behaviors. Third, this research provides ethics policy-makers and scholars with the conceptual framework of adolescent-centric vulnerability, which can help them to develop actions based on both imposed and deliberate sources of vulnerability from the perception of the adolescent.

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Severe Growing-Up Phobia, a Condition Explained in a 14-Year-Old Boy

Cited by 6 publications

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Gerascophobia and its Related Factors in Medical Students of Kerman University of Medical Sciences

Gerascophobia and its Related Factors in Medical Students of Kerman University of Medical Sciences

Effect of Hypnotherapy in Reducing Phobia Symptoms

Unveiling (In)Vulnerability in an Adolescent’s Consumption Subculture: A Framework to Understand Adolescents’ Experienced (In)Vulnerability and Ethical Implications

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