Correlates and Mediators of Dissociation: Towards a Transtheoretical Perspective

2020 ◽  
pp. 027623662095628
Author(s):  
Damla E. Aksen ◽  
Craig Polizzi ◽  
Steven Jay Lynn
Keyword(s):  
Negative Affect ◽  
Negative Correlation ◽  
Emotion Dysregulation ◽  
Sleep Disturbances ◽  
Significant Negative Correlation ◽  
Unique Variance ◽  
Positive Correlations ◽  
Bidirectional Relations ◽  
Mediational Role

We evaluated variables important to understanding dissociation ( N = 379 undergraduates). We investigated: (a) the correlations among dissociation and impulsivity, alexithymia, mindfulness, negative affect, neuroticism, sleep disturbances, and emotion dysregulation; (b) unique variance of these variables in statistically predicting dissociation scores; and (c) the statistical mediational role of emotion dysregulation and sleep in explaining dissociation. We found significant positive correlations between dissociation and emotion dysregulation, sleep, alexithymia, negative affect, impulsivity, and neuroticism as well as a significant negative correlation between mindfulness and dissociation, consistent with Lynn et al . Sleep, impulsivity, emotion dysregulation, and negative affect uniquely related to and explained significant variance in dissociation, in order from most to least variance accounted for. Sleep partially mediated the relation between emotion dysregulation and dissociation and the relation between impulsivity and dissociation. Emotion dysregulation partially mediated the relation between sleep and dissociation and the relation between impulsivity and dissociation. Additional findings provided support for bidirectional relations between sleep experiences and dissociation and emotion dysregulation and dissociation.

scholarly journals Nurses Burnout, Resilience, and Its Association With Socio-Demographic Factors During COVID-19 Pandemic

2022 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Majid Heidari Jamebozorgi ◽  
Ali Karamoozian ◽  
Tayebe Ilaghinezhad Bardsiri ◽  
Hojjat Sheikhbardsiri
Keyword(s):  
Negative Correlation ◽  
Maslach Burnout Inventory ◽  
Significant Negative Correlation ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Stressful Events ◽  
Personal Accomplishment ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Socio Demographic Factors

BackgroundIn the recent pandemic, nurses have faced workload and being exposed to burnout. Resilience helps address work-related psychological problems such as stressful events and burnout. According to the roles of nurses in the healthcare system, we investigated the relationship between resiliency and burnout in nurses.Material and MethodsIn this descriptive analytical cross-sectional study, 364 nurses participated from April to June 2021. Census sampling was used to recruit participants. Maslach burnout inventory (MBI), Connor-Davidson Resiliency Scale (CDRISC), and a demographic check-list were utilized to collect data. Data analysis was done using SPSS version 22. Shapiro-Wilk, Kruskal–Wallis test, Mann–Whitney U-test, correlation analysis, and generalized linear model were applied accordingly.ResultsOverall, the findings showed that nurses had severe symptoms of burnout and a moderate level of resilience. The two domains of burnout, emotional exhaustion and personal accomplishment had a significantly negative correlation with resilience (r = −0.442, p < 0.001 and r = −0.351, p = 0.03, respectively). Linear regression showed that demographic characteristics (Hospital type, ward type, gender, and overtime) were the major predictors of the 3 sub-categories of burnout. A significant negative correlation was observed between burnout and resilience highlighting the role of resilience in reducing burnout (P < 0.05).ConclusionIn order to help nurses to tackle and endure burnout in pandemic times, there is a need to implement national and local policies to help them accordingly.

scholarly journals Role of insulin during the development of oligofructose (OF)-induced equine laminitis

2015 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 303-309
Author(s):  
Renli Jiang ◽  
Li Gao ◽  
Guanying Wang ◽  
Xinran Li ◽  
Yue Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nitric Oxide ◽  
Glucose Oxidase ◽  
Negative Correlation ◽  
Significant Negative Correlation ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Endothelin 1 ◽  
Limulus Amoebocyte Lysate ◽  
And Control ◽  
Over Time

Abstract Horses (n = 20) were divided into 2 groups: oligofructose (OF)-induced equine laminitis group (group OF; n = 11) which received 10 g/kg b.w. of OF dissolved in 4 L water via nasogastric intubation, and control group (NS; n = 9) which received 4 L of saline. Blood was collected at 4 h intervals over 72 h study period and analysed by ELISA, kinetic limulus amoebocyte lysate assay, and glucose-oxidase methods. The level of insulin changed significantly in horses which received OF (P < 0.01); there was a significant negative correlation between the level of adiponectin and insulin over time. The results suggested that insulin may play an important role in the development of OF-induced equine laminitis by altering the level of endothelin-1 and nitric oxide.

Complexity trade-offs do not prove the equal complexity hypothesis

2014 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gertraud Fenk-Oczlon ◽  
August Fenk
Keyword(s):  
Negative Correlation ◽  
Null Hypothesis ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Significant Negative Correlation ◽  
Second Step ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Monosyllabic Words ◽  
Complexity Hypothesis ◽  
Positive Correlations

AbstractComplexity trade-offs are often considered as evidence for the hypothesis that all languages are equally complex; simplicity in one component of grammar is balanced by complexity in another. According to Shosted (2006), this "negative correlation hypothesis", as he calls it, was never validated using quantitative methods. The present paper recalls, in a first step, our previously found significant negative cross-linguistic correlations between syllable complexity and number of syllables per clause and per word, as well as an almost significant negative correlation between syllable complexity and number of morphological cases. All these correlations indicate complexity trade-offs between subsystems of language, as do the positive correlations found between syllable complexity, number of syllable types, and number of monosyllabic words. In a second step we argue against the view of such complexity trade-offs as proof of the equal complexity hypothesis. This hypothesis is hardly testable for several reasons: As long as it is impossible to quantify the overall complexity of a single language, it is also impossible to compare different languages with respect to that quantity. Secondly, it could – because of its character as a null hypothesis – never be corroborated for principal reasons.

scholarly journals Role of Endogenous Allelochemicals in Host Plant Resistance to Japanese Beetles

HortScience ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 767E-767
Author(s):  
Thomas G. Ranney ◽  
James D. Burton ◽  
James F. Walgenbach ◽  
D. Mason Pharr ◽  
Cindy A. Patton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Negative Correlation ◽  
Chemical Constituents ◽  
Soluble Sugars ◽  
Significant Negative Correlation ◽  
Mechanisms Of Resistance ◽  
Feeding Intensity ◽  
Prunus Virginiana ◽  
Feeding Trials ◽  
Choice Feeding

No-choice feeding trials were conducted with adult Japanese beetles on leaves from 14 taxa of rosaceous trees. Feeding intensity (leaf area consumption) ranged from 0.08 to 6.1 cm2/day for Prunus virginiana and P. sargentii, respectively. Analysis of endogenous chemical constituents suggested that the mechanisms of resistance varied for the different plant genera. Among the Prunus taxa there was a significant negative correlation between cyanide potential and feeding intensity (r = –0.56). Tissue toughness (resistance to tearing) was also negatively correlated with feeding intensity (r = –0.39) for all taxa. Soluble sugars (glucose, fructose, sucrose, and sorbitol) had no significant phagostimulatory effect, separately or in combination.

scholarly journals Iron in sea ice: Review and new insights

Elem Sci Anth ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Lannuzel ◽  
M. Vancoppenolle ◽  
P. van der Merwe ◽  
J. de Jong ◽  
K.M. Meiners ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sea Ice ◽  
Ice Cores ◽  
Significant Negative Correlation ◽  
Polar Regions ◽  
Pack Ice ◽  
Fast Ice ◽  
Metal Research ◽  
Positive Correlations ◽  
Do So

Abstract The discovery that melting sea ice can fertilize iron (Fe)-depleted polar waters has recently fostered trace metal research efforts in sea ice. The aim of this review is to summarize and synthesize the current understanding of Fe biogeochemistry in sea ice. To do so, we compiled available data on particulate, dissolved, and total dissolvable Fe (PFe, DFe and TDFe, respectively) from sea-ice studies from both polar regions and from sub-Arctic and northern Hemisphere temperate areas. Data analysis focused on a circum-Antarctic Fe dataset derived from 61 ice cores collected during 10 field expeditions carried out between 1997 and 2012 in the Southern Ocean. Our key findings are that 1) concentrations of all forms of Fe (PFe, DFe, TDFe) are at least a magnitude larger in fast ice and pack ice than in typical Antarctic surface waters; 2) DFe, PFe and TDFe behave differently when plotted against sea-ice salinity, suggesting that their distributions in sea ice are driven by distinct, spatially and temporally decoupled processes; 3) DFe is actively extracted from seawater into growing sea ice; 4) fast ice generally has more Fe-bearing particles, a finding supported by the significant negative correlation observed between both PFe and TDFe concentrations in sea ice and water depth; 5) the Fe pool in sea ice is coupled to biota, as indicated by the positive correlations of PFe and TDFe with chlorophyll a and particulate organic carbon; and 6) the vast majority of DFe appears to be adsorbed onto something in sea ice. This review also addresses the role of sea ice as a reservoir of Fe and its role in seeding seasonally ice-covered waters. We discuss the pivotal role of organic ligands in controlling DFe concentrations in sea ice and highlight the uncertainties that remain regarding the mechanisms of Fe incorporation in sea ice.

THE THIAMINE AND RIBOFLAVIN CONTENT OF MANITOBA GROWN WHEAT, OATS, AND BARLEY OF THE 1946 CROP

1949 ◽  
Vol 27f (5) ◽  
pp. 241-248 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allen D. Robinson ◽  
Langtry E. Lynd ◽  
Barbara J. Miles
Keyword(s):  
Negative Correlation ◽  
Significant Negative Correlation ◽  
Soil Zone ◽  
Thiamine Content ◽  
Positive Correlations ◽  
Barley Protein

Some 200 samples of pure varieties of barley, oats, and wheat grown in Manitoba in 1946 were assayed for thiamine and riboflavin. Expressed as micrograms per gram the averages and ranges for thiamine were: barley 4.06 (3.3 to 4.9), oats 5.99 (4.4 to 7.9), wheat 4.28 (3.5 to 5.7); for riboflavin: barley 1.28 (0.9 to 1.9), oats 1.25 (0.8 to 1.7), wheat 1.12 (0.8 to 1.4). A varietal effect on thiamine content was noted. Plush barley contains more than OAC 21, Exeter oats more than either Ajax or Vanguard, and Carlton wheat more than Regent, which in turn has a higher content than Thatcher. No varietal effects on riboflavin contents were found in any of the cereals. Neither thiamine nor riboflavin content of the cereals was determined by the soil zone in which they were grown. Significant positive correlations were found between protein and thiamine in oats and barley, protein and riboflavin in wheat, and ash and riboflavin in barley. A significant negative correlation between ash and thiamine in oats was observed.

Uraemic Bleeding : Contributory Role Of Red Cells

1981 ◽  
Author(s):  
M Livio ◽  
D Marchesi ◽  
G Mecca ◽  
G Remuzzi ◽  
M B Donati ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Blood Cell ◽  
Cell Volume ◽  
Negative Correlation ◽  
Packed Cell Volume ◽  
Significant Negative Correlation ◽  
T Test ◽  
Red Cells ◽  
Student’S T ◽  
Student’S T Test

The bleeding times (B.T.) of 65 patients with chronic uraemia were determined inmediately before a routine haonodialysis session. A significant negative correlation (r=0.67, p < 0.01) was found between B.T. and packed cell volume (PCV) values. When the patients with bleeding times longer than 15 min were excluded frcm the analysis, a negative correlation with PCV was still apparent (r = 0.55; p<0.01 ) .in addition, X2 analysis showed a significant association between PCV values <30% and B.T. longer than 260 sec(p<0.001) . Fourteen uraemic patients with PC/ values between 13% and 27% and B.T. longer than 15 min, required washed blood cell transfusions, after which PCV values increased variably but no shortening of B.T. was observed unless PCV rose to at least 30%. In particular, 2 uraemic patients with B.T. >15 min and PCV values of 21% and 19% were transfused on several occasions. PCV rose to 23%, 30% and 35% in the first patient and to 25% and 34% in the second one. The corresponding B.T. were >15 min,>15 min and 0 min 30 sec and > 15 and 9 min 30 sec. In a group of 15 patients with uraemia-unrelated anemias (PCV between 20% and 34%) the median B.T. was 300 sec (range 120-450 sec) whereas in a group of 15 uraemic patients with comparable PCV values, the median B.T. was 390 sec (range 180 - 900 sec) (p<0.05, paired student's t test) . It is concluded that among other factors red cells may contribute to the defective haemostasis in uraemic patients.

Development of an Instrument to Assess Learning Strategies

1992 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 1001-1002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brad Chissom ◽  
Asghar Iran-Nejad
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Negative Correlation ◽  
Correlation Matrix ◽  
Significant Negative Correlation ◽  
Written Narratives ◽  
Positive Correlations

Items to measure learning strategies were extracted from students' written narratives about their study and learning habits. A resulting 79-item instrument was administered to 321 graduate and undergraduate students. From factor analysis of the correlation matrix four factors were identified: (I) reflective metacognition, (II) procedural metacognition, (III) rote memorization, and (IV) procrastination. There were significant positive correlations between GPA and Factors I and II and a significant negative correlation between Factor IV and GPA.

scholarly journals Parasite-host relationship between the tambaqui (Colossoma macropomum Cuvier 1818) and ectoparasites, collected from fish farms in the city of Rolim de Moura, State of Rondônia, Western Amazon, Brazil

2012 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 515-524 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mara Maria Izar de Maio Godoi ◽  
Vera Engracia ◽  
Maria de Los Angeles Perez Lizama ◽  
Ricardo Massato Takemoto
Keyword(s):  
Negative Correlation ◽  
Parasite Species ◽  
Significant Negative Correlation ◽  
High Water ◽  
Fish Farms ◽  
Parasite Abundance ◽  
High Prevalence ◽  
Positive Correlations ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

In this study we investigated the relationship between tambaqui fish (Colossoma macropomumi Cuvier 1818) and parasites in two fish farms (L204S and L180N) in the state of Rondônia, Brazil, during a 1-year period. The objective of the study was to describe the relationships between parasites, hosts and the environment. From the 80 fish specimens collected, 100% were parasitized by at least one parasite species. Seven ectoparasites species were recorded, six of the class Monogenea: Anacanthorus spathulatusi, Mymarothecium spp. (Mymarothecium sp. 1, Mymarothecium sp. 2 and M. viatorum), Notozothecium sp. and Linguadactyloides brinkimanni, classified as dominants, and the copepod Perulernaea gamitanae, classified as subordinate. Despite their high prevalence, the parasites were not abundant. A. spathulatus presented positive and significant correlations between the abundance of parasitism and the standard length of the hosts in the two fish farms; Mymarothecium spp. showed significant correlations, negative in L180N, and positive in L204S; significant positive correlations were observed for Notozothecium sp. in L204S, and for L.brinkimanni in L180N. Young monogeneans were found; these parasites presented a negative correlation in L180N and a significant negative correlation in L204S. The results of the correlation between the relative condition factor (Kn) and the abundance of parasites were not significant for the recorded parasite species. Regarding the hepatosomatic relation (HSR) of fish and the abundance of parasites, Anacanthorus spathulatusi showed a significant negative correlation with the HSR in L180N, and a positive correlation in L204S. Mymarothecium spp. and Notozothecium sp. presented significant positive correlations in L204S. Considering the correlation of the fish splenosomatic relation (SSR) and the abundance of parasites, L. brinkimanni presented significant correlations, positive in L180N and negative in L204S. Despite 100% prevalence, the high water quality contributes to infracommunities with low parasite abundance and good levels of Kn, HSR and SSR, allowing good tambaqui development.

scholarly journals Role of Phosphorylcholine in Streptococcus Pyogenes Adherence to Epithelial Cells

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroyuki Iuchi ◽  
Junichiro Ohori ◽  
Takeshi Tokushige ◽  
Satoshi Kiyama
Keyword(s):  
Epithelial Cells ◽  
Streptococcus Pyogenes ◽  
Negative Correlation ◽  
Platelet Activating Factor ◽  
Significant Negative Correlation ◽  
Inhibitory Effects ◽  
Polymerase Chain ◽  
Intracellular Invasion ◽  
Adhesion And Invasion

Abstract Background: This study aimed to evaluate the influence of Phosphorylcholine (PC) expression on the adherence and invasion of Streptococcus pyogenes (S. pyogenes) to epithelial cells to clarify the potential effectiveness of a vaccine targeting PC. Methods: Eight clinical strains of S. pyogenes were cultured overnight, and PC expression was evaluated by fluorescence-activated cell sorting. Bacterial adherence and invasion were examined using Detroit 562 cells. An anti-PC-specific monoclonal antibody (TEPC-15) was used to inhibit bacterial PC, and a platelet-activating factor receptor (PAF-R) antagonist (ABT-491) was used to inhibit cellular PAF-R. Additionally, amplification of the emm gene was performed using polymerase chain reaction with the standard primers. Results: The level of PC expressed on the S. pyogenes surfaces differed in each strain. Furthermore, PC expression was different even in the same emm type. Adherence assay experiments showed that there was a significant negative correlation between TEPC-15 and ABT-491 inhibitory effects and PC expression in S. pyogenes. Similarly, intracellular invasion assay experiments showed that there was a significant negative correlation between TEPC-15 and ABT-491 inhibitory effects and PC expression in S. pyogenes. Conclusion: The present study suggests that PC is involved in the cell adhesion and invasion of S. pyogenes, regardless of the emm type.

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