Psychological factors as coping skills to attenuate the gestational stress response

AbstractBackgroundThis study was designed to examine the effectiveness of program combining chakrayoga and meditation on the physical health and disease-related factors and psychological factors of people.MethodsNinety-seven subjects (32–83 years old) who had free from prior experiences in meditation programs or Chakrayoga training courses were assigned to either the experimental group (EXP) (45 subjects; 13 male subjects and 32 female subjects; average age of 60.67 years, SD=11.09 years) or the control group (CONT) of remaining subjects (52 subjects; 14 male subjects and 38 female subjects; average age of 61.58 years, SD=9.70 years). Subjects in the EXP participated in the Chakrayoga Meditation Program for twice a week for 2 h during 6 weeks in each session consisted of 1 h of Chakrayoga and 1 h of meditation. The measurements in this study included the mindfulness, stress response, subjective quality of life, medical symptom checklist, difficulty in emotional regulation and objective of life and sense of control.ResultsResults revealed that participants in the EXP reported significantly more relief of mindfulness, stress response, subjective quality of life and medical symptom checklist than those in the CONT.ConclusionsThese findings provide evidence that the Chakrayoga Meditation Program can help relieve the physical health and disease-related factors and psychological factors.

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Mindfulness and Coping Skills as Predictors of Competitive Anxiety amongst Athletes in Indonesia

ANIMA Indonesian Psychological Journal ◽

10.24123/aipj.v33i4.1796 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 33 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Didon Permadi ◽

Fivi Nurwianti

Keyword(s):

Psychological Factors ◽

Research Method ◽

Coping Skills ◽

Sampling Techniques ◽

Competitive Anxiety ◽

Cognitive Anxiety ◽

Measurement Tools ◽

Senior Athletes ◽

And Coping ◽

Age Range

Competitive anxiety is one of the psychological factors which greatly affect athletes' performances. Competitive anxiety is divided into somatic anxiety and cognitive anxiety. This study was conducted to look at mindfulness and coping skills as predictors of competitive anxiety. Through purposive sampling techniques, some (N = 159) senior athletes, representatives of various sports from various provinces in Indonesia, with an age range of 18-40 years were included in this study. This non-experimental research method design used three questionnaires, consisting of AAQ-II (mindfulness), ACSI (coping skills), and CSAI-2R (competitive anxiety) as measurement tools. Statistical analysis, using multiple regression, showed that mindfulness and coping skills simultaneously have a linear relationship to competitive anxiety, and significantly predict a competitive anxiety level of 29%. This means that mindfulness and coping skills can decrease competitive anxiety in athletes. Further analysis found that mindfulness plays a greater role in reducing competitive anxiety than coping skills.

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Pre-gestational stress alters stress-response of pubertal offspring rat in sexually dimorphic and hemispherically asymmetric manner

BMC Neuroscience ◽

10.1186/1471-2202-14-67 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

Cited By ~ 15

Author(s):

Yuejun Huang ◽

Sihong Chen ◽

Hongwu Xu ◽

Xiaochan Yu ◽

Huihong Lai ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Stress Response ◽

Sexually Dimorphic ◽

Gestational Stress

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What Does CATS Have to Do With Cancer? The Cognitive Activation Theory of Stress (CATS) Forms the SURGE Model of Chronic Post-surgical Pain in Women With Breast Cancer

Frontiers in Psychology ◽

10.3389/fpsyg.2021.630422 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 ◽

Author(s):

Alice Munk ◽

Silje Endresen Reme ◽

Henrik Børsting Jacobsen

Keyword(s):

Breast Cancer ◽

Stress Response ◽

Psychological Factors ◽

Sickness Behavior ◽

Outcome Expectancies ◽

Breast Cancer Surgery ◽

Surgical Pain ◽

Activation Theory ◽

Chronic Post Surgical Pain

Chronic post-surgical pain (CPSP) represents a highly prevalent and significant clinical problem. Both major and minor surgeries entail risks of developing CPSP, and cancer-related surgery is no exception. As an example, more than 40% of women undergoing breast cancer surgery struggle with CPSP years after surgery. While we do not fully understand the pathophysiology of CPSP, we know it is multifaceted with biological, social, and psychological factors contributing. The aim of this review is to advocate for the role of response outcome expectancies in the development of CPSP following breast cancer surgery. We propose the Cognitive Activation Theory of Stress (CATS) as an applicable theoretical framework detailing the potential role of cortisol regulation, inflammation, and inflammatory-induced sickness behavior in CPSP. Drawing on learning theory and activation theory, CATS offers psychobiological explanations for the relationship between stress and health, where acquired expectancies are crucial in determining the stress response and health outcomes. Based on existing knowledge about risk factors for CPSP, and in line with the CATS position, we propose the SURGEry outcome expectancy (SURGE) model of CPSP. According to SURGE, expectancies impact stress physiology, inflammation, and fear-based learning influencing the development and persistence of CPSP. SURGE further proposes that generalized response outcome expectancies drive adaptive or maladaptive stress responses in the time around surgery, where coping dampens the stress response, while helplessness and hopelessness sustains it. A sustained stress response may contribute to central sensitization, alterations in functional brain networks and excessive fear-based learning. This sets the stage for a prolonged state of inflammatory-induced sickness behavior – potentially driving and maintaining CPSP. Finally, as psychological factors are modifiable, robust and potent predictors of CPSP, we suggest hypnosis as an effective intervention strategy targeting response outcome expectancies. We here argue that presurgical clinical hypnosis has the potential of preventing CPSP in women with breast cancer.

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CarR, a MarR-family regulator from Corynebacterium glutamicum, modulated antibiotic and aromatic compound resistance

Biochemical Journal ◽

10.1042/bcj20190320 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 476 (21) ◽

pp. 3141-3159 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Meiru Si ◽

Can Chen ◽

Zengfan Wei ◽

Zhijin Gong ◽

GuiZhi Li ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Stress Response ◽

Ligand Binding ◽

Corynebacterium Glutamicum ◽

Conformational Changes ◽

Cysteine Oxidation ◽

Transcriptional Regulatory ◽

Ligand Free ◽

Redox Sensing

Abstract MarR (multiple antibiotic resistance regulator) proteins are a family of transcriptional regulators that is prevalent in Corynebacterium glutamicum. Understanding the physiological and biochemical function of MarR homologs in C. glutamicum has focused on cysteine oxidation-based redox-sensing and substrate metabolism-involving regulators. In this study, we characterized the stress-related ligand-binding functions of the C. glutamicum MarR-type regulator CarR (C. glutamicum antibiotic-responding regulator). We demonstrate that CarR negatively regulates the expression of the carR (ncgl2886)–uspA (ncgl2887) operon and the adjacent, oppositely oriented gene ncgl2885, encoding the hypothetical deacylase DecE. We also show that CarR directly activates transcription of the ncgl2882–ncgl2884 operon, encoding the peptidoglycan synthesis operon (PSO) located upstream of carR in the opposite orientation. The addition of stress-associated ligands such as penicillin and streptomycin induced carR, uspA, decE, and PSO expression in vivo, as well as attenuated binding of CarR to operator DNA in vitro. Importantly, stress response-induced up-regulation of carR, uspA, and PSO gene expression correlated with cell resistance to β-lactam antibiotics and aromatic compounds. Six highly conserved residues in CarR were found to strongly influence its ligand binding and transcriptional regulatory properties. Collectively, the results indicate that the ligand binding of CarR induces its dissociation from the carR–uspA promoter to derepress carR and uspA transcription. Ligand-free CarR also activates PSO expression, which in turn contributes to C. glutamicum stress resistance. The outcomes indicate that the stress response mechanism of CarR in C. glutamicum occurs via ligand-induced conformational changes to the protein, not via cysteine oxidation-based thiol modifications.

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Syntax, Stress Response, and Speech Motor Control

Perspectives on Fluency and Fluency Disorders ◽

10.1044/ffd17.2.25 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 17 (2) ◽

pp. 25-26

Author(s):

Jennifer Kleinow

Keyword(s):

Motor Control ◽

Stress Response ◽

Speech Motor Control ◽

Speech Motor

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Coping Skills Can Prevent, Relieve Headache Pain

Internal Medicine News ◽

10.1016/s1553-3212(05)70326-5 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 38 (5) ◽

pp. 40

Author(s):

NANCY A. MELVILLE

Keyword(s):

Coping Skills ◽

Headache Pain

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How to Psychologically Minimize Scratching Impulses

Zeitschrift für Psychologie ◽

10.1027/2151-2604/a000183 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 222 (3) ◽

pp. 140-147 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Ariane Sölle ◽

Theresa Bartholomäus ◽

Margitta Worm ◽

Regine Klinger

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Processes ◽

Placebo Effect ◽

Psychological Factors ◽

Pharmacological Treatments ◽

Physiological Basis ◽

Psychological Mechanisms ◽

Physical Complaints ◽

Factors Influencing ◽

The Impact ◽

Placebo Model

Research in recent years, especially in the analgesic field, has intensively studied the placebo effect and its mechanisms. It has been shown that physical complaints can be efficiently reduced via learning and cognitive processes (conditioning and expectancies). However, despite evidence demonstrating a large variety of physiological similarities between pain and itch, the possible transfer of the analgesic placebo model to itch has not yet been widely discussed in research. This review therefore aims at highlighting potential transfers of placebo mechanisms to itch processes by demonstrating the therapeutic issues in pharmacological treatments for pruritus on a physiological basis and by discussing the impact of psychological mechanisms and psychological factors influencing itch sensations.

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Substance Use: Stress Plus Inadequate Coping Skills

Contemporary Psychology ◽

10.1037/024360 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 31 (12) ◽

pp. 999-1000

Author(s):

W. Miles Cox

Keyword(s):

Substance Use ◽

Coping Skills

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