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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"hypervigilance"”.
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Loneliness and Hypervigilance to Social Threats in Adults
… of six studies that systematically examine the hypervigilance to social threat hypothesis in loneliness using adult samples. The studies described in this thesis make an original contribution to the loneliness literature and uses different experimental paradigms to examine whether lonely adults …
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The relationship between PTSD, hypervigilance and disordered sleep
… of sleep quality. Specifically, we investigated hypervigilance (one of the three symptom clusters in the PTSD diagnosis) as an underlying mechanism of this link. We also investigated whether hypervigilance affects dream content and themes in individuals with PTSD.
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First Responder Coping and its Impact on Resilience, PTSD Symptomology, and Hypervigilance
… relate to resilience, PTSD symptomology, and hypervigilance. The purpose of this study is to help provide more detailed information as to how first responders’ coping impacts their overall functioning. First responders (N = 181), including law enforcement officers, firefighters, paramedics, …
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Sleep under stress: the complex web of fear, hypervigilance and mental health in a low socioeconomic status community in South Africa
… alert to potential threats or experience hypervigilance throughout the night. This state of hypervigilance is typically characterized by heightened sympathetic nervous system activity and reduced parasympathetic tone, which can be quantified through measures of autonomic nervous system …
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Investigation Of Emotional Numbing And Other Potential Risk Factors Of Chronic Ptsd In Veterans
… due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Brief Hypervigilance Scale was used to measure symptoms of hypervigilance, the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire was used to measure experiential avoidance, and the Big Five Inventory was used to measure personality traits. Results supported the …
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A conflict-theory approach to understanding adolescents' health behaviour
… defensive avoidance (evasion of anxiety) and hypervigilance (panic). Developed to explain adult decision making, Conflict-Theory postulates were applied to health decisions in adolescents, thus extending the model to a new population. Conflict-Theory proposes that coping styles moderate …
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Awareness of deficits and on-road driving performance among persons with acquired brain injury
… functioning among those with intact (n = 24) or hypervigilance (n = 17) toward their deficits. An exception was that processing speed showed modest relation to on-road outcome for all groups, including healthy controls. Adults with impaired awareness of their deficits rated their driving more …
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UTILIZING GLORIA ANZALDUA’S CONOCIMIENTO TO SURVIVE: UNDERSTANDING HOW WOMEN FACULTY OF COLOR OVERCOME RACIAL BIAS & DISCRIMINATION IN ACADEMIA
… after tenure, and lived in a constant state of hypervigilance as they stepped into leadership positions. Findings suggest that women faculty of color leaders are motivated by lasting parental influence, as well as mentors and other support systems. They also use a number of bodymindspirit …
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RESTING-STATE FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY CORRELATES OF ATTENTIONAL BIAS IN AN EMOTIONAL FREE VIEWING PARADIGM: AN EYE-TRACKING INVESTIGATION
… altered patterns of attentional engagement (hypervigilance or maintenance) with external stimuli; referred to as attentional biases. To date, the extent to which underlying neural mechanisms drive attentional biases, both in affective disorders as well as unselected populations, remain to be …
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Visual attention and cognitive biases to threat in anxiety
… Derakshan, Santos & Calvo, 2007) and/or hypervigilance and enhanced threat detection (Eysenck, 1992).<br/><br/>This thesis utilised eye movement and reaction time measures to explore the relationship between anxiety and the cognitive mechanisms underlying the localisation and detection of …
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Social and economic decision-making in Urbach-Wiethe Disease
… can possibly produce loss-aversion due to a hypervigilance for fear and the lack of inhibition of the centromedial amygdala by the basolateral amygdala.
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Controllability and its effect on psychological functioning
… the effect of lacking and losing control on hypervigilance. Unexpectedly, attentional and interpretation bias towards threat remained unaffected by the manipulation of controllability. Finally, Study 8 examined the effect of lacking and losing control on a physiological index of emotion …
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Threat-Related Attentional Bias in Relation to Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms in the General Population: The Potential Role of Sex Effects
… sensitivity to disorder and self-relevant words, hypervigilance to threatening stimuli is observed in relation to anxiety symptoms. Furthermore, attentional bias has been shown to play an important role in the development and maintenance of depressive and anxiety disorders. Accordingly, a large …
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Self- and other-regarding reinforcement learning: Disruptions in mental disorders and oxytocin's modulating role in healthy people
… and without depression, supposedly due to their hypervigilance to unexpected outcomes for others, as evidenced by the heightened responses in their inferior parietal lobule. The OT study detected OT's effects of attenuating behavioral other-regarding learning, as well as the neural coding of …
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Loneliness and Health: Physiological and Cognitive Mechanisms in Adulthood and Childhood
… that loneliness is linked to poor health through hypervigilance to social threat (HSTH), resulting in increased activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. The first two studies address gaps in the adult literature for loneliness and health and examine HSTH and the HPA axis stress …
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An analysis of trauma resilience among Hausa young people affected by ethno-religious violence in Jos.
… irritability (0%) and none reported symptoms of hypervigilance or insomnia (0%). However, the pictures drawn by the young people revealed lots of trauma, some dealing directly with crisis and others in different areas of their lives. Girls reported more traumatic incidents than boys. Likewise, …
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An analysis of trauma resilience among Hausa young people affected by ethno-religious violence in Jos.
… irritability (0%) and none reported symptoms of hypervigilance or insomnia (0%). However, the pictures drawn by the young people revealed lots of trauma, some dealing directly with crisis and others in different areas of their lives. Girls reported more traumatic incidents than boys. Likewise, …
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Schematic effects of rape myth acceptance
… this finding is interpreted as reflecting hypervigilance. Furthermore, with increasing RMA the RMA-applicable and expected stimulus is fixated shorter therefore indicating faster processing. This ease of processing is the consequence of a fit between incoming information and activated …
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder Following Mild Head Injury: An Investigation into the Relationship Between Physiological Underarousal and Symptoms of Anxiety
… 2009; Roemer & Borkovec, 1993) an absence of hypervigilance and lessened alertness is more likely in persons with MHI. To examine these variances in symptom characteristics, 84 participants (39% with MHI) completed self-report measures of aggression, dimensions of anxiety (cognitive, …
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An exploration of risks and resources related to parental burnout among parents of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities and behaviours that challenge in Atlantis, Western Cape, South Africa
… the characteristics of the child; (2) parental hypervigilance; (3) COVID19 stressors; and (4) religion as a coping mechanism. Overall, the findings of the scoping review suggested that parental burnout in this cohort is under researched both internationally and in South Africa, informing the …
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