scholarly journals Association between the Psychological Effects of Viewing Forest Landscapes and Trait Anxiety Level

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (15) ◽  
pp. 5479 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chorong Song ◽  
Harumi Ikei ◽  
Bum-Jin Park ◽  
Juyoung Lee ◽  
Takahide Kagawa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
Mood State ◽  
Negative Mood ◽  
Mood States ◽  
Anxiety Level ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Psychological Responses ◽  
High Anxiety ◽  
Negative Mood State ◽  
Anxiety Levels

The aim of this study was to validate the psychological advantages of viewing forest landscapes. Moreover, the associations between trait anxiety levels and psychological responses were evaluated. A total of 650 university male students (age, 21.7 ± 1.6 years) viewed a scenery in a forested area and an urban area for 15 min. Furthermore, the Profile of Mood States questionnaire and State-Trait Anxiety Inventory were employed for the assessment of the psychological responses and the level of trait anxiety, respectively, of the participants. Results showed that compared with viewing a city area, viewing forest areas increased positive mood state, such as vigor, and decreased negative mood states. Furthermore, trait anxiety level and changes in the psychological responses such as depression–dejection, fatigue, and confusion after viewing forest landscapes were significantly correlated. The participants with high anxiety levels had greater reduction in negative mood state, including confusion, than those with low anxiety levels. In conclusion, viewing forest landscapes induced psychological relaxation, which was more evident in individuals with high anxiety levels.

scholarly journals Psychological Benefits of Walking through Forest Areas

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (12) ◽  
pp. 2804 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chorong Song ◽  
Harumi Ikei ◽  
Bum-Jin Park ◽  
Juyoung Lee ◽  
Takahide Kagawa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
Mood State ◽  
Positive Mood ◽  
Psychological Responses ◽  
State Trait Anxiety Inventory ◽  
Psychological Benefits ◽  
Effective Reduction ◽  
Anxiety Levels ◽  
High Trait ◽  
High Trait Anxiety

This study aimed to clarify the psychological benefits of brief walks through forest areas. In addition, we aimed to examine the associations between psychological responses and trait anxiety levels. Five-hundred-and-eighty-five participants (mean age, 21.7 ± 1.6 years) were instructed to walk predetermined courses through forest (test) and city (control) areas for 15 min. The Profile of Mood State (POMS) questionnaire and State-Trait Anxiety Inventory were used to assess participants’ psychological responses and trait anxiety levels, respectively. The results revealed that walking through forest areas decreased the negative moods of “depression-dejection”, “tension-anxiety”, “anger-hostility”, “fatigue”, and “confusion” and improved the participants’ positive mood of “vigor” compared with walking through city areas. Furthermore, a significant correlation was found between participants’ trait anxiety levels and their changes in the subscale of “depression-dejection” of POMS after walking through forest areas. A more effective reduction in the feeling of “depression-dejection” after walking through forest areas was observed for participants with high trait anxiety levels than for those with normal and low trait anxiety levels. This study showed the psychological benefits of walking through forest areas and identified a significant correlation between psychological responses to walking through forests and trait anxiety levels.

scholarly journals Heart Rate Variability as a Marker of Changes in Mood State in Daily Life by Photoplethysmography Technique

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 100-103
Author(s):  
Santosh Kumar Deo ◽  
Kopila Agrawal ◽  
Prem Bhattarai
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Heart Rate Variability ◽  
High Frequency ◽  
Mood State ◽  
Negative Mood ◽  
Low Frequency ◽  
Positive Mood ◽  
Mood States ◽  
State Condition ◽  
Negative Mood State

Introduction: The different mood states in our daily life can affect our mental and emotional health. The aim of our study was to explore photoplethysmography to record heart rate variability as a marker of changes in mood states in our daily life.Materials and Methods: Two groups of affective pictures categorized into positive and negative sets were shown to thirty subjects on two different consecutive days with simultaneously recording of heart rate variability for 5 minutes by photoplethysmography technique. Immediately after recording on each day, 0-9 self-assessment scale was used to assess the mood state of the subject after viewing the set of pictures.Results: Sympathetic domains of heart rate variability like low frequency (200.3 ±4.1 vs. 166.7 ±2.8, p<0.05), low- and high frequency ratio (1.45 ± 0.21 vs. 0.55 ± 0.07, p<0.05) and low frequency (55.8 ± 2.9 vs. 38.6 ± 2.8, p<0.05) significantly increased in negative mood state condition as compared to positive mood state condition. High frequency (157.9 ± 3.9 vs. 264.3 ± 5.3, p<0.05) and high frequency (44 ± 2.9 vs. 61.2 ±4.2, p< 0.05) significantly increased in positive mood state condition as compared to negative mood state condition. There was significant increase in heart rate (78 ± 2.99 vs. 73 ± 3.11, p<0.05) in negative mood state as compared to positive mood state.Conclusions: Increase in sympathetic activity during negative mood state and increase in parasympathetic activity during positive mood state measured by photoplethysmography technique validates this easy and noninvasive mental assessment tool to determine different mood states.

Impact on parents of feeding young children with congenital or acquired cardiac disease

2000 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 574-581 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Imms
Keyword(s):  
Cardiac Disease ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Mood State ◽  
Negative Mood ◽  
Oral Feeding ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Negative Mood State ◽  
Congenital Cardiac Disease ◽  
Culturally Based ◽  
Emerging Themes

AbstractFeeding an infant is an interactive process that facilitates social, emotional and culturally based skills. Children with congenital or acquired cardiac disease frequently require supportive regimes with regard to feeding so as to maintain weight, resulting in altered experiences for both the child and family. This study evaluated the practical, emotional and social ramifications for parents, of having a child with cardiac disease who also experienced difficulties with oral feeding. The study sampled three groups of parents who had children less than 3 years of age: those with cardiac disease who had difficulty in feeding, those with cardiac disease and no such difficulty, and those with no medical diagnosis. Parents completed a questionnaire about feeding, a time diary of activities involved in feeding, and Tuckman's Mood Thermometers, which measure anger and ‘poorness-of-mood’ associated with feeding the identified child. Parents of children with cardiac disease and a feeding difficulty reported a significantly more negative mood-state, and significantly longer time associated with feeding, than parents of children in the other two groups. Emerging themes from qualitative analysis of the data suggested that having a child with congenital cardiac disease producing difficulty in feeding had a strong negative impact on the whole family.

GAMBARAN TINGKAT KECEMASAN ORANG TUA TERHADAP HOSPITALISASI ANAK DENGAN KEJANG DEMAM SELAMA ANAK DI RAWAT DI RUMAH SAKIT SANTA ELISABETH MEDAN TAHUN 2017

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-60
Author(s):  
Melky Rismando Damanik ◽  
Rusmauli Lumban Gaol
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Febrile Seizure ◽  
Febrile Seizures ◽  
Anxiety Level ◽  
Parental Anxiety ◽  
Subjective Experiences ◽  
High Anxiety ◽  
Specific Object ◽  
Anxiety Levels ◽  
The Individual

Anxiety is an unclear and widespread concern, associated with feelings of uncertainty and helplessness. This state of anxiety and emotion has no specific object but can affect behavior toward parents whose children are hospitalized. Parental anxiety levels are subjective experiences of the individual and can not be directly observed but consequently will affect the anxiety level of the parent. Hospitalization of children is a state of crisis in children, when children are sick and hospitalized, one of them in the febrile seizure disease is a seizure spasm that occurs in the rise in body temperature above 38 ° C this will result in anxiety level of parents increases. Goals: To know the description of anxiety level of parent to hospitalization of child with febrile seizure during child is treated in hospital of Elisabeth Elisabeth Medan. Method: The design used in this study is descriptive to describe the level of anxiety parents to hospitalization of children with febrile seizures during child care at Hospital Santa Elisabeth Medan Year 2017. Result: based on data collection found 10 respondents where 5 (50%) of respondents who experienced anxiety level in medium category and 5 (50%) respondents have low level anxiety level. Conclusion: Based on the research and data analysis that has been done in accordance with the objectives that have been determined can be concluded that all parents who care for their children in the hospital will experience anxiety level that is 5 respondents (50%) with moderate anxiety level, while 5 others (50% Low anxiety levels and high anxiety levels were not found.

scholarly journals Dogs are more pessimistic if their owners use two or more aversive training methods

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel A. Casey ◽  
Maria Naj-Oleari ◽  
Sarah Campbell ◽  
Michael Mendl ◽  
Emily J. Blackwell
Keyword(s):  
Positive Reinforcement ◽  
Negative Reinforcement ◽  
Mood State ◽  
Negative Mood ◽  
Domestic Dogs ◽  
Matched Pair ◽  
Training Methods ◽  
Negative Mood State ◽  
Judgement Bias ◽  
Welfare Implications

AbstractDomestic dogs are trained using a range of different methods, broadly categorised as reward based (positive reinforcement/negative punishment) and aversive based (positive punishment/negative reinforcement). Previous research has suggested associations between use of positive punishment-based techniques and undesired behaviours, but there is little research investigating the relative welfare consequences of these different approaches. This study used a judgement bias task to compare the underlying mood state of dogs whose owners reported using two or more positive punishment/negative reinforcement based techniques, with those trained using only positive reinforcement/negative punishment in a matched pair study design. Dogs were trained to discriminate between rewarded and unrewarded locations equidistant from a start box, and mean latencies recorded. Their subsequent latency to intermediate ‘ambiguous’ locations was recorded as an indication of whether these were perceived as likely to contain food or not. Dogs trained using aversive methods were slower to all ambiguous locations. This difference was significant for latency to the middle (Wilcoxon Z = − 2.380, P = 0.017), and near positive (Wilcoxon Z = − 2.447, P = 0.014) locations, suggesting that dogs trained using coercive methods may have a more negative mood state, and hence that there are welfare implications of training dogs using such methods.

High Levels of State or Trait Anxiety and Performance on Selected Verbal WAIS Subtests

1970 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 375-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilma J. Knox ◽  
Ricardo Grippaldi
Keyword(s):  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
State Anxiety ◽  
Digit Span ◽  
The State ◽  
State Trait Anxiety Inventory ◽  
High Anxiety ◽  
Anxiety Group ◽  
Anxiety Levels ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Curvilinear Relationships

Upon entering a VA domiciliary Ss were given the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) and WAIS subtests, Arithmetic ( A), Similarities ( S) and Digit Span ( DS). Two analyses of variance were carried out among WAIS weighted scores on the three subtests for three groups of different state or trait anxiety levels (high, medium, and low). Analyses showed significant interactions between WAIS scaled scores and anxiety: p < .05 for state anxiety and p < .001 for trait anxiety. The high-anxiety group in each instance showed the classical expectation of a lower A and DS in comparison to S; performance on DS was highest for each medium anxiety group. The study of curvilinear relationships and interaction effects in anxiety was discussed.

scholarly journals Surgery information reduces anxiety in the pre-operative period

2004 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leandro Yoshinobu Kiyohara ◽  
Lilian Kakumu Kayano ◽  
Lorena Marçalo Oliveira ◽  
Marina Uemori Yamamoto ◽  
Marco Makoto Inagaki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
State Anxiety ◽  
Surgical Procedure ◽  
The State ◽  
Anxiety Level ◽  
Lower State ◽  
State Trait Anxiety Inventory ◽  
Patient Anxiety ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Anxiety Levels

PURPOSE: Patients preparing to undergo surgery should not suffer needless anxiety. This study aimed to evaluate anxiety levels on the day before surgery as related to the information known by the patient regarding the diagnosis, surgical procedure, or anesthesia. METHOD: Patients reported their knowledge of diagnosis, surgery, and anesthesia. The Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) was used to measure patient anxiety levels. RESULTS: One hundred and forty-nine patients were selected, and 82 females and 38 males were interviewed. Twenty-nine patients were excluded due to illiteracy. The state-anxiety levels were alike for males and females (36.10 ± 11.94 vs. 37.61 ± 8.76) (mean ± SD). Trait-anxiety levels were higher for women (42.55 ± 10.39 vs. 38.08 ± 12.25, P = 0.041). Patient education level did not influence the state-anxiety level but was inversely related to the trait-anxiety level. Knowledge of the diagnosis was clear for 91.7% of patients, of the surgery for 75.0%, and of anesthesia for 37.5%. Unfamiliarity with the surgical procedure raised state-anxiety levels (P = 0.021). A lower state-anxiety level was found among patients who did not know the diagnosis but knew about the surgery (P = 0.038). CONCLUSIONS: Increased knowledge of patients regarding the surgery they are about to undergo may reduce their state-anxiety levels.

Parenting stress as a mediator of parents' negative mood state and behavior problems in children with newly diagnosed cancer

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (7) ◽  
pp. 758-765 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ivana M. van der Geest ◽  
Marry M. van den Heuvel-Eibrink ◽  
Jan Passchier ◽  
Corry van den Hoed-Heerschop ◽  
Rob Pieters ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Behavior Problems ◽  
Parenting Stress ◽  
Mood State ◽  
Negative Mood ◽  
Newly Diagnosed ◽  
Negative Mood State ◽  
And Behavior

scholarly journals Positive and negative mood states do not influence cross-modal auditory distraction in the serial-recall paradigm

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (12) ◽  
pp. e0260699
Author(s):  
Saskia Kaiser ◽  
Axel Buchner ◽  
Raoul Bell
Keyword(s):  
Serial Recall ◽  
Mood State ◽  
Negative Mood ◽  
Mood States ◽  
Auditory Distraction ◽  
State Effect ◽  
Serial Recall Task ◽  
Negative Mood States ◽  
Emotional Pictures ◽  
Automatic Capture

The aim of this study was to examine whether positive and negative mood states affect auditory distraction in a serial-recall task. The duplex-mechanism account differentiates two types of auditory distraction. The changing-state effect is postulated to be rooted in interference-by-process and to be automatic. The auditory-deviant effect is attributed to attentional capture by the deviant distractors. Only the auditory-deviant effect, but not the changing-state effect, should be influenced by emotional mood states according to the duplex-mechanism account. Four experiments were conducted to test how auditory distraction is affected by emotional mood states. Mood was induced by autobiographical recall (Experiments 1 and 2) or the presentation of emotional pictures (Experiments 3 and 4). Even though the manipulations were successful in inducing changes in mood, neither positive mood (Experiments 1 and 3) nor negative mood (Experiments 2 and 4) had any effect on distraction despite large samples sizes (N = 851 in total). The results thus are not in line with the hypothesis that auditory distraction is affected by changes in mood state. The results support an automatic-capture account according to which the auditory-deviant effect and the changing-state effect are mainly stimulus-driven effects that are rooted in the automatic processing of the to-be-ignored auditory stream.

Dynamic Fearful Expressions Enhance Gaze-Triggered Attention Orienting in High and Low Anxiety Individuals

2009 ◽  
Vol 37 (10) ◽  
pp. 1313-1326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shota Uono ◽  
Wataru Sato ◽  
Motomi Toichi
Keyword(s):  
Reaction Time ◽  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
Peripheral Target ◽  
High Anxiety ◽  
Dynamic Stimuli ◽  
Attention Orienting ◽  
Anxiety Levels

In previous studies using static stimuli it has been shown that gaze-triggered attention orienting is facilitated by fearful expressions, moderated by high anxiety. However, uncertainty remains regarding the effect of anxiety on responses to dynamic stimuli. We investigated this using dynamic fearful and neutral gaze as cues. Participants detected a peripheral target following the cue. Anxiety levels were measured after experiment (Experiment 1) or between anxiety manipulation and experiment (Experiment 2). We found a reaction time advantage for fearful vs. neutral gazes in both high and low state/trait anxiety participants. The results showed that dynamic fearful expressions facilitate gaze-triggered attention orienting, without moderation by high anxiety.

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