Eye Accommodation, Personality, and Autonomic Balance

The autonomic nervous system is made up of two subsystems: the parasympathetic (PNS) and the sympathetic (SNS). The balance between these systems regulates bodily functioning during routine (PNS-dominant) and crisis (SNS-dominant) situations. It also controls visual accommodation for near (PNS-dominant) and far (SNS-dominant) focus. The balance between these physiological systems has been linked to individual differences in personality characteristics, especially introversion (PNS-dominant) and extraversion (SNS-dominant). Since the balance mediates accommodation, the similar personality differences between near- and far-sighted individuals may be related to the more general parasympathetic-sympathetic balance rather than being related solely to the visual capability difference.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Psychology

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Gawron, Valerie Jane

• Psychology, Experimental

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8017941

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/66572