Self-Control Skills and Negative Emotional State: A Focus on Hostility

2002 ◽  
Vol 90 (2) ◽  
pp. 627-633 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elaine M. Heiby ◽  
Adela Mearig
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Emotional State ◽  
Unipolar Depression ◽  
Brief Symptom Inventory ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Negative Emotional State ◽  
The Relationship

The self-control theory of psychopathology has contributed to the understanding and treatment of unipolar depression. This paper explores the relationship between self-control skills as measured by the Frequency of Self-reinforcement Questionnaire and other negative emotional states, with a focus on hostility. In Study 1, scores on the Brief Symptom Inventory were inversely related to self-control skills among a sample of 53 college students, suggesting potential generalizability of the theory. In Study 2, self-control skills were inversely related to hostility, anger, and aggression among a sample of 68 college students. The role of self-control skills in the regulation of hostility deserves further investigation.

THE EFFECT OF EMOTIONAL STATE ON WAITING IN DECISION MAKING

2008 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 591-602 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ya-Chung Sun ◽  
Shih-Chia Wu
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Experimental Study ◽  
Emotional State ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Extra Time ◽  
New Information ◽  
Negative Emotional State ◽  
Current Mood ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Do So

Previous research has indicated that many people often take extra time to consider existing information. They do so possibly in order to acquire more information, or even to “wait” in the hope that new information may be forthcoming before they make a decision. However, recent studies have provided scant information about how waiting affects a person's choice given different emotional states. In this paper, an experimental study was carried out to demonstrate and explain the relationship between waiting and a person's choice. Results show that when conditions are certain, more people choose to wait – when they are in a positive emotional state – in order to maintain their current mood. However, under either certain or uncertain conditions, when people are in a negative emotional state they prefer to take immediate action rather than wait. The causes and implications of this phenomenon are discussed in relation to the existing literature on emotions and choice.

scholarly journals Negative Emotional State dan Cyberbullying Pada Mahasiswa

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-49
Author(s):  
Fellianti Muzdalifah ◽  
Deasyanti
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Emotional State ◽  
Cyber Bullying ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
State College ◽  
Online Social Media ◽  
Negative Emotional State ◽  
E Mail ◽  
Different Levels

Cyberbullying is a form of aggressive behavior by using telecommunications media with the aim of embarrassing, threatening, and intimidating certain parties. Cyberbullyings widely applied using mobile media, online chatting (whatsapp, LINE), e-mail, and also online social media such as Facebook, Instagram,or  to personal blogs. Cyberbullying evoked negative emotional states namely depression, anxiety, and stress in cyberbullies and cybervictimization. This study provided evidence indicating that college students who experienced in cyberbullying at least 1 week, either cyberbullies or cybervictimization had differences level of negative emotional states,namely depression, anxiety, and stress. The data collection was used the DASS-42 scale to measure negative emotional states (depression, anxiety, and stress). The level of depression, anxiety, and stress were consisted of normal, mild, moderate, severe, and very severe. Meanwhile, Revised Cyber ​​Bullying Inventory-II (RCBI-II) was used to collect cyberbullying data and determined the role in cyberbullying (cyberbullies and cybervictimization). The respondents was 48 cyberbullies and 38 cybervictimization. The result showed that most of 51,1% total of cyberbullies and cybervictimization did not have depression and the rest had different levels of depression. Related to anxiety, cyberbullies showed that 52.1% cyberbullies did not have anxiety. Otherwise in cybervictimization, 28.9% did not have anxiety and another 28.9% were at anxiety levels.Then related to stress, most of 52,3% total of cyberbullies and cybervictimization did not have stress and the rest had different levels of stress.                                                          Keywords: cyberbullying, negative emotional state, college students.

Effects of a Fear Appeal on Arousal, Self-Reported Anxiety, and Attitude towards Smoking

1983 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Watson ◽  
K. W. Pettingale ◽  
D. Goldstein
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Emotional State ◽  
The Self ◽  
Fear Appeals ◽  
Fear Appeal ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Close Correspondence ◽  
The Relationship

This paper describes the effects of an anti-smoking film on level of arousal and anxiety in a group of smokers and nonsmoking control. The aims of the study were threefold: to determine whether a fear appeal of this kind would increase arousal; to examine the relationship between self-reported, behavioral, and somatic responses to this type of fear appeal; and to assess the extent to which responses were influenced by consistent individual differences in the reporting of emotional states. The results indicated that a close correspondence existed between the self-reported and somatic measures of anxiety and that smokers showed a greater increase in anxiety than nonsmokers. Individual differences in reporting of emotional state were not related to somatic responses. Over-all, fear appeals of the type used here may be useful in manipulating level of anxiety and attitudes towards smoking.

From Container to Claustrum: Projective Identification in Couples

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamara Feldman
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Health ◽  
Projective Identification ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Intimate Partners ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
As If

This paper is a contribution to the growing literature on the role of projective identification in understanding couples' dynamics. Projective identification as a defence is well suited to couples, as intimate partners provide an ideal location to deposit unwanted parts of the self. This paper illustrates how projective identification functions differently depending on the psychological health of the couple. It elucidates how healthier couples use projective identification more as a form of communication, whereas disturbed couples are inclined to employ it to invade and control the other, as captured by Meltzer's concept of "intrusive identification". These different uses of projective identification affect couples' capacities to provide what Bion called "containment". In disturbed couples, partners serve as what Meltzer termed "claustrums" whereby projections are not contained, but imprisoned or entombed in the other. Applying the concept of claustrum helps illuminate common feelings these couples express, such as feeling suffocated, stifled, trapped, held hostage, or feeling as if the relationship is killing them. Finally, this paper presents treatment challenges in working with more disturbed couples.

Alcohol Dependence Conceptualized as a Stress Disorder

2019 ◽  
pp. 198-220
Author(s):  
Leandro F. Vendruscolo ◽  
George F. Koob
Keyword(s):  
Prefrontal Cortex ◽  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Alcohol Dependence ◽  
Glucocorticoid Receptors ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Brain Circuits ◽  
Negative Emotional State ◽  
Alcohol Alcohol

Alcohol use disorder is a chronically relapsing disorder that involves (1) compulsivity to seek and take alcohol, (2) difficulty in limiting alcohol intake, and (3) emergence of a negative emotional state (e.g., dysphoria, anxiety, irritability) in the absence of alcohol. Alcohol addiction encompasses a three-stage cycle that becomes more intense as alcohol use progresses: binge/intoxication, withdrawal/negative affect, and preoccupation/anticipation. These stages engage neuroadaptations in brain circuits that involve the basal ganglia (reward hypofunction), extended amygdala (stress sensitization), and prefrontal cortex (executive function disorder). This chapter discusses key neuroadaptations in the hypothalamic and extrahypothalamic stress systems and the critical role of glucocorticoid receptors. These neuroadaptations contribute to negative emotional states that powerfully drive compulsive alcohol drinking and seeking. These changes in association with a disruption of prefrontal cortex function that lead to cognitive deficits and poor decision making contribute to the chronic relapsing nature of alcohol dependence.

scholarly journals Understanding the role of conjugation length on the self-assembly behaviour of oligophenyleneethynylenes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beatriz Matarranz ◽  
Goutam Ghosh ◽  
Ramesh Kandanelli ◽  
Angel Sampedro ◽  
Kalathil K. Kartha ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Self Assembly ◽  
The Self ◽  
Conjugation Length ◽  
The Relationship

We unravel the relationship between conjugation length and self-assembly behaviour of oligophenyleneethynylenes (OPEs).

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