abstract：:Disturbances of sleep are a hallmark of seasonal affective disorders (SAD), as they are of other mood disorders. Fall/winter SAD patients most often report hypersomnia. Among responses of 293 SAD patients on a symptom questionnaire, complaints of winter hypersomnia (80%) greatly exceeded insomnia (10%), hypersomnia pl...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Anderson JL,Rosen LN,Mendelson WB,Jacobsen FM,Skwerer RG,Joseph-Vanderpool JR,Duncan CC,Wehr TA,Rosenthal NE

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two studies address the prevalence, concomitants, and appraisal of health-related intrusive thoughts. Eighty-three percent of adults (N = 658) in waiting rooms of two general hospitals reported at least one intrusive thought during the preceding month and 75.0% of patients and 55.5% of people accompanying them reporte...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Freeston MH,Gagnon F,Ladouceur R,Thibodeau N,Letarte H,Rhéaume J

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a retrospective comparison study of rates of postnatal depression using two self-rating instruments, a significantly higher incidence of postnatal depression was found among subjects who had undergone Caesarean section than in those who had a vaginal delivery. The excess of cases of postnatal depression among the C...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Edwards DR,Porter SA,Stein GS

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-six subjects affected with hypersomnia associated with mood disorders, 31 with a diagnosis of dysthymia, 4 with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder and one with a diagnosis of major recurrent depression underwent standardized polysomnographic procedures including night 1, MSLT and night 2 (uninterrupted). 36.1% of ...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Billiard M,Dolenc L,Aldaz C,Ondze B,Besset A

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immediate (Type I) hypersensitivity skin reactions to allergens or antigens have been used as immune measures that may be subject to intentional modulation. In preliminary experiments using hypnosis we encountered unacceptably large, uncontrollable variability. A method was subsequently devised in which serial, five-f...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Laidlaw TM,Booth RJ,Large RG

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acute psychological reactions of 101 train drivers to on-the-track accidents were studied by means of clinical interviews and questionnaires (Impact of Event Scale, GHQ-20 and a questionnaire addressing stress symptoms, pre-accident expectancies and worries). More than half of the train drivers reported moderate t...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Malt UF,Karlehagen S,Hoff H,Herrstromer U,Hildingson K,Tibell E,Leymann H

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the investigation was to study the prevalence of current and past psychiatric morbidity and psychosocial problems in HIV seropositive (HIV +ve) asymptomatic women. A cross-sectional controlled study including 57 HIV +ve women belonging to CDC group II and III (43 intravenous drug users and 14 non-IVDUs hete...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Pergami A,Gala C,Burgess A,Durbano F,Zanello D,Riccio M,Invernizzi G,Catalan J

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This prospective study focused on childhood and adult psychosocial determinants of blood pressure (BP) measured at working age, including work factors, individual characteristics and socioeconomic factors. Data had been collected over 20 years ago from a sample representative of Finnish children. For this follow-up, 1...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Kalimo R,Vuori J

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In earlier studies performed on a group of women with gastrointestinal symptoms, significant positive correlations between the gastrointestinal hormone gastrin and anxiety, and a negative correlation with socialization were obtained. These and other relationships were tested on 33 healthy women. A comprehensive and co...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Uvnäs-Moberg K,Arn I,Jonsson CO,Ek S,Nilsonne A

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The association between mood state and treatment outcome after In Vitro Fertilization/Embryo Transfer (IVF/ET) was assessed in a prospective sample of 330 women, of whom 113 were first time participants (inductees) and 217 were repeat cycle women (veterans). Initial evaluation of mood state indicated a significantly h...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Thiering P,Beaurepaire J,Jones M,Saunders D,Tennant C

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stress reduction programs (SRPs) can reduce morbidity and mortality in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). This study evaluated the effect of an SRP on metabolic and hormonal risk factors for CAD. Twenty army officers participating in an SRP, Group I, and a comparison group of seventeen SRP nonparticipants, G...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Littman AB,Fava M,Halperin P,Lamon-Fava S,Drews FR,Oleshansky MA,Bielenda CC,MacLaughlin RA

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The topic of a single vs multiple premenstrual syndromes has generated much discussion. In this study, multivariate profile analysis was used to determine whether or not physical and affective symptoms associated with the premenstrual syndrome (PMS) could be explained as the manifestation of one underlying pathophysio...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Jorgensen J,Rossignol AM,Bonnlander H

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A principal component analysis was carried out on the 62-item Illness Behaviour Questionnaire responses of 832 pain clinics and patients and 746 psychiatric in-patients in the same general hospital. Analyses were carried out for the groups separately, and combined (N = 1578). The factors obtained were compared to thos...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Pilowsky I

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to develop a screening test based on the Leiden Impotence Questionnaire (LIQ) in order to assist in the difficult process of differentiating between psychogenic and organic erectile dysfunction (ED). The main sample consisted of 176 patients with ED, which was classified according to the resu...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Speckens AE,Hengeveld MW,Lycklama à Nijeholt GA,van Hemert AM,Hawton KE

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although it is clear from previous research that pain is associated with negative affect, the relative contribution of specific affective dimensions, e.g. depression, anxiety and anger, to the subjective experience of chronic pain is unclear. The literature is also mixed concerning the relative importance of state ver...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Gaskin ME,Greene AF,Robinson ME,Geisser ME

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cardiovascular fitness, blood pressure, resting pulse, lung capacity and body fat of 246 subjects were measured and each subject completed activity, mental health and mood questionnaires. The results of this study support the hypothesis that participation in physical activity, rather than cardiovascular fitness, i...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Thirlaway K,Benton D

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional somatic symptoms (FSS) are bodily sensations which do not result from physical disease, but which the patient responds to as if they did. Such symptoms are common and usually transient. In some patients they become persistent and associated with distress and disability. In such cases specific treatment is i...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Sharpe M,Peveler R,Mayou R

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of exposure to competitive mental stressors on rates of excretion of sodium (Na), potassium (K) and fluid, together with cardiovascular responses, were evaluated in 14 black and 14 white normotensive men after 3 days of controlled diet (200 mEq Na, 100 mEq K daily). In the first hour of a 5-hr protocol, su...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Light KC,Turner JR

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The psychological correlates of the Rationality/Emotional Defensiveness Scale and its two subscales were examined in 1236 males and 863 females from the Western Collaborative Group Study. An additional 157 males and 164 females with some form of cancer other than of the skin were also included in this analysis. Charac...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Swan GE,Carmelli D,Dame A,Rosenman RH,Spielberger CD

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigates the function of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA)-axis and the availability of L-tryptophan and tyrosine to the brain in postpartum women and in women taking long-term oral contraceptives. To this end, we have measured the following parameters in 50 women (i.e. 9 normal controls, 10 wome...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Maes M,Claes M,Schotte C,Delbeke L,Jacquemyn Y,Verkerk R,De Meester I,Scharpé S

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine whether participating in physical activity affects psychological well-being in an adolescent population, 147 adolescents completed self-reports of exercise and psychological stress and well-being. Analysis revealed that those who reported greater physical activity also reported less stress and lower level...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Norris R,Carroll D,Cochrane R

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Observation of overt pain behaviours was carried out by physicians during routine clinical examination of 120 patients with chronic low back pain. Reliable ratings were achieved but only after very careful standardization in an additional 60 pilot patients. Overt pain behaviour was found to be related to other clinica...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Waddell G,Richardson J

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Generalized expectancies about control are examined as a possible independent risk factor for coronary artery disease in a sample of subjects undergoing coronary angiography. This characteristic is also examined as a possible underlying component of the Type A behavior pattern which may contribute to the latter's asso...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Seeman TE

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective evaluation of simulation in low back pain is currently not possible. A new simulation scale based on subject response to 103 pain words has shown promise in discriminating patients with low back pain from those simulating low back pain. Administration of this scale to 1679 individuals who were injured at wor...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Leavitt F

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To develop a model of how stress and other psychosocial constructs may interact to explain recurrences of genital herpes, assessments of major and minor life stress, locus of control, arousal or stimulation seeking, and social support were given to 153 university students (33% male; 67% female) who were seropositive f...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Hoon EF,Hoon PW,Rand KH,Johnson J,Hall NR,Edwards NB

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The extent to which measures of anxiety and personality characteristics, which had been assessed preoperatively, could predict the length of hospital stay following surgery, above and beyond what could be predicted on the basis of biographical, medical-status and post-operative anxiety variables, was examined in 58 pa...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Boeke S,Stronks D,Verhage F,Zwaveling A

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This cross-sectional study reveals that a significant proportion (35%) of the sampled population of factory workers experienced measurable health problems in the form of anxiety, sleep disturbance, depression, somatic complaints and other clinical indicators of stress. Job stress and social support levels experienced ...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Shankar J,Famuyiwa OO

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixty-seven patients suffering from spasmodic torticollis, a neurological disorder in which involuntary contractions of the head produce an abnormal head posture, completed a booklet of questionnaires aiming to assess psychosocial adjustment. Twenty-four per cent of the patients were moderately to severely depressed. ...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Jahanshahi M

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type A behavior was examined in relation to physiologic and facial-expressive changes associated with anger, fear and distress. Affect was induced by an imagery procedure in which subjects recalled and described actual, emotion-related episodes. Type A was assessed by a structured interview. Subjects were healthy men,...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Contrada RJ,Hilton WF Jr,Glass DC

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the widespread use of life event inventories, relatively little research has been conducted evaluating whether recall techniques can reduce reporting errors. This study evaluated whether memory aids would reduce errors in reports of life events and explored subjects' explanations for why they had given inconsi...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Sobell LC,Toneatto T,Sobell MB,Schuller R,Maxwell M

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individual and cross-spouse correlations of perceptions of family cohesiveness, emotional expressiveness and conflict with blood pressure and five dimensions of anger were examined in 85 couples. Wives' perceptions of family cohesiveness were negatively related to their diastolic blood pressure, whereas husbands' perc...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Musante L,Treiber FA,Strong WB,Levy M

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationships between several psychological variables and salivary cortisol levels were investigated in 70 young mothers throughout the first five days following the delivery of a healthy baby. We hypothesized that postpartum blues is associated with ineffective coping strategies, high anxiety levels, and elevated...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Ehlert U,Patalla U,Kirschbaum C,Piedmont E,Hellhammer DH

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty healthy nonsmoking men and 30 women underwent a laboratory reactivity assessment with systolic (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP), and heart rate (HR) recorded at rest and during behavioral (mirror image tracing, mental arithmetic, color word conflict task and a semistructured Type A interview), and physi...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Fredrikson M,Tuomisto M,Lundberg U,Melin B

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blood pressure and heart rate responses were monitored while 30 medical, dental or graduate students completed four laboratory tasks. On a second day, subjects wore an ambulatory blood pressure monitor, and during this day they completed the real-world challenge of presenting their research in front of a small audienc...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Turner JR,Girdler SS,Sherwood A,Light KC

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study is an attempt to investigate the efficacy of an outpatient cognitive behavioural group programme for the rehabilitation of patients with chronic pain. The programme, which took place over one afternoon per week for seven weeks and was conducted by a multidisciplinary team, aimed to increase patients' skills...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Skinner JB,Erskine A,Pearce S,Rubenstein I,Taylor M,Foster C

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-eight patients with rheumatoid arthritis were compared to 52 pain-free controls in terms of tolerance/avoidance and rated intensity of cold pressor pain. The patients had lower thresholds and tolerated the cold pressor pain for a shorter period, although not significantly so. However, the patients rated the nove...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Jahanshahi M,Pitt P,Williams I

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anxiety is commonly experienced by patients following myocardial infarction. The role of anxiety in the recovery/rehabilitation process is not well understood, but anxiety is thought to be one of the factors determining outcome. It is important, therefore, to understand the possible effects on anxiety of changing disc...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Sykes DH,Evans AE,Boyle DM,McIlmoyle EL,Salathia KS

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Broad categories of adjustment to cancer were originally identified clinically. Subsequently, a self-rating questionnaire--the MAC (Mental Adjustment to Cancer) scale--was developed to measure these categories of adjustment. We report here a validation study of the MAC scale. Fifty-four consecutively referred patients...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Greer S,Moorey S,Watson M

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of distraction tasks varying in attentional demand on the perception of exercise-induced symptoms and on exercise performance. Tasks were constructed to vary in attentional demand but not in emotional engagement in order to isolate the former. Sixty females rode...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Fillingim RB,Roth DL,Haley WE

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The need for more clearly identifying the reporting behaviour of hypertensives was addressed. An objective method of measuring reporting behaviour was developed: the Life Concerns checklist. This checklist was able to discriminate subjects defined as introspective self-doubters from those who reported either psychosom...

journal_title：Journal of psychosomatic research

authors： Cumes-Rayner DP,Price J

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00