Aquatic activity and emotional experience in adults with severe mental illness

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Alysha A. Walter, MS, CTRS ◽  
Bryan P. McCormick, PhD, CTRS
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Severe Mental Illness ◽  
Positive Emotion ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Negative Emotion ◽  
Mental Health Center ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Psychiatric Rehabilitation ◽  
Physical Exertion ◽  
Potential Effect

This study examined the relationship of aquatic activity to positive and negative emotion in individuals with a severe mental illness (SMI). Individuals with SMI have been found to experience decreased positive emotions and higher negative emotions as compared to controls. It was hypothesized that aquatic activity participation would be associated with greater positive emotion and lower negative emotion post participation. Eighteen participants with a severe mental illness were recruited from a community mental health center. The study employed a pre-post design with a structured aquatic activity designed for moderate physical exertion. Participants demonstrated statistically significant increase in positive emotion and decrease in negative emotion pre to post activity. The findings of this study provide support for the potential effect of aquatic activities in psychiatric rehabilitation.

scholarly journals Non-suicidal self-injury-related differences in the experience of negative and positive emotion

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Edward Boyes ◽  
Adrienne Wilmot ◽  
Penelope Hasking
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Positive Emotion ◽  
Negative Emotion ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Time Points ◽  
Self Injury ◽  
Movie Clip ◽  
History Of ◽  
State Responses

Objective: Emotional experience is argued to contribute to the initiation and maintenance of non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI). We investigated whether individuals with/without a history of NSSI differed in their dispositional experience of negative and positive emotion, as well as their state responses to negatively and positively-valenced movie clips. Method: Undergraduates (n = 214, Mage = 21.33, 73.8% female, 35.5% reporting NSSI) completed measures of NSSI and dispositional emotional experience. Participants also viewed a sad and amusing movie clip, and provided sadness/amusement ratings at seven time-points. Results: Relative to participants with no history of self-injury, participants reporting NSSI indicated more reactivity, intensity, and perseveration of trait negative emotion; however, differences were negated after adjusting for mental illness. Unexpectedly, individuals with a history of NSSI responded less intensely to the sad clip, although they demonstrated perseveration of sadness over time. Participants reporting NSSI also indicated less reactivity, intensity, and perseveration of trait positive emotion and, in response to the amusing film, reported less amusement at all time-points. Conclusions: Considering different dimensions of negative and positive emotion may enhance understanding of NSSI. Future research should disentangle which dimensions of emotional experience are unique to NSSI and which are shared with mental illness more generally.

scholarly journals Emotion Goals: What Do Sexual Offenders Want to Feel?

2019 ◽  
Vol 63 (15-16) ◽  
pp. 2611-2629 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlo Garofalo ◽  
Belén López-Pérez ◽  
Michaela Gummerum ◽  
Yaniv Hanoch ◽  
Maya Tamir
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Sexual Offenders ◽  
Positive Emotion ◽  
Negative Emotion ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
The Other ◽  
Limited Data ◽  
Perceived Utility ◽  
Emotional Dysfunction

Sexual offenders typically experience more negative emotions and greater difficulties in regulating emotions than non-offenders. However, limited data exist on what sexual offenders want to feel (i.e., their emotion goals). Notably, emotion goals play a key role in emotion regulation and contribute to emotional experience. The present study tested whether sexual offenders ( N = 31) reported higher scores for negative emotion goals and lower scores for positive emotion goals, compared with general offenders ( N = 26) and non-offenders ( N = 26). In addition, we tested whether sexual offenders differed from the other two groups in their perceived pleasantness and perceived utility of emotions. Sexual offenders reported greater scores for the emotion goal of sadness, and lower scores for the emotion goal of excitement, compared with both general offenders and non-offenders. State and trait levels of these emotions could not fully account for these differences. Furthermore, sexual offenders reported lower perceived pleasantness for sadness than general offenders and lower perceived pleasantness for excitement compared with both other groups. Finally, sexual offenders reported greater perceived utility of sadness than non-offenders. These novel findings and their implications for research and interventions are discussed in the context of sexual offenders’ emotional dysfunction.

scholarly journals Emotion Regulation Predicts Everyday Emotion Experience and Social Function in Schizophrenia

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 271-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin K. Moran ◽  
Adam J. Culbreth ◽  
Deanna M. Barch
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Hierarchical Linear Modeling ◽  
Positive Emotion ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Negative Emotion ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Linear Modeling ◽  
Emotion Regulation Strategy

While recent evidence has pointed to disturbances in emotion regulation strategy use in schizophrenia, few studies have examined how these regulation strategies relate to emotionality and social behavior in daily life. Using ecological momentary assessment (EMA), we investigated the relationship between emotion regulation, emotional experience, and social interaction in the daily lives of individuals with schizophrenia. Participants ( N = 30) used mobile phones to complete online questionnaires reporting their daily emotional experience and social interaction. Participants also completed self-report measures of habitual emotion regulation. Hierarchical linear modeling revealed that self-reported use of cognitive reappraisal and savoring of emotional experiences were related to greater positive emotion in daily life. In contrast, self-reported suppression was related to greater negative emotion, reduced positive emotion, and reduced social interaction in daily life. These findings suggest that individual differences in habitual emotion regulation strategy usage have important relationships to everyday emotional and social experiences in schizophrenia.

EXPRESS: The Influence of Movement on Negative and Positive Emotional Responses to Animals

2021 ◽  
pp. 174702182110493
Author(s):  
Krystal Shea St. Peter ◽  
Laura L Vernon ◽  
Alan Kersten
Keyword(s):  
Positive Emotion ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Animal Movement ◽  
Negative Emotion ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Emotional Reactions ◽  
Still Images

Two studies were conducted to explore whether the addition of animal movement would influence the intensity of emotional reactions toward that animal. Both studies compared self-reported emotional reactions to still images and videos for six animal categories (snakes, spiders, rodents, hoofed animals, animals with flippers, and turtles). In Study 1, participants reported fear and disgust to the animal stimuli, which were averaged into a single negative emotion rating. In Study 2, participants reported either fear and disgust or joy and affection to the animal stimuli, which were averaged into either a single negative or positive emotion rating. Upon combining the reported emotions from the two studies, movement was found to increase negative emotion reported to snakes and spiders and decrease negative emotion reported to rodents, hoofed animals, and animals with flippers. Results from Study 2 indicated that movement increased reported positive emotions to all six animal categories. Our findings suggest that animal movement is an important component of emotional reactions to animals.

Psychiatric Rehabilitation: A Means of De-stigmatizing Severe Mental Illness

2005 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 28-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory G. Garske ◽  
Connie J. McReynolds
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Severe Mental Illness ◽  
Psychiatric Rehabilitation ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Life Goals

Many individuals with severe mental illness (SMI) have a unique set of disabilities that interfere with their life goals. In addition, many of these people must also deal with another obstacle, the stigma associated with mental illness. The purpose of this paper is to address how this population has been stigmatized, both externally and internally. The focus will then be turned to psychiatric rehabilitation, an effective means of de-stigmatizing the lives of people with SMI.

Effectiveness of Psychiatric Rehabilitation Approaches for Employment of People with Severe Mental Illness

1999 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary R. Bond ◽  
Robert E. Drake ◽  
Deborah R. Becker ◽  
Kim T. Mueser
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Severe Mental Illness ◽  
Psychiatric Rehabilitation

Psychosocial rehabilitation

2020 ◽  
pp. 229-242
Author(s):  
Mariam Ujeyl ◽  
Wulf Rössler
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Severe Mental Illness ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Psychiatric Rehabilitation ◽  
Symptom Control ◽  
Psychosocial Rehabilitation ◽  
Models Of Care ◽  
Community Treatment ◽  
Mental Health Systems

Psychosocial rehabilitation (synonymously referred to as psychiatric rehabilitation) is a field and service within mental health systems that shifted the treatment focus from symptom control to social inclusion by functional recovery. It aims to help individuals with severe mental illness live in the community as independently as possible. Psychosocial rehabilitation (PR) developed in the 1970s, when psychiatric reform, including the process of deinstitutionalization, had already paved the way to more responsive and balanced provision of mental health care. This chapter outlines major developments in and obstacles to the reform in European and other high-income countries. It introduces the evolving principles of PR and presents evidence on important models of care, such as assertive community treatment (ACT) and individual placement and support (IPS), that share the objectives of PR to improve integration of people with severe mental illness into the labour market and society in general.

scholarly journals Effect of Cognitive Variables and Emotional Variables on Urban Residents’ Recycled Water Reuse Behavior

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 2208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi Gao ◽  
Zhiguo Li ◽  
Kashif Khan
Keyword(s):  
Water Reuse ◽  
Positive Emotion ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Negative Emotion ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Cognitive Factors ◽  
Urban Residents ◽  
Cognitive Variables ◽  
Recycled Water ◽  
Emotional Factors

Urban residents’ perception of recycled water reuse is the foundation for the realization of recycled water reuse behavior. However, even though the perception factor is equipped, it does not mean that urban residents will use recycled water continuously for sure. Therefore, in this research, the authors try to put cognitive factors and emotional factors into a unified behavioral process. Based on this theory framework, the paper will interpret the initiation, formation and continuing process of recycled water reuse behavior of urban residents. On the basis of previous studies, this study established a theoretical model to study the influence of cognitive factors and emotional factors on recycled water reuse behavior of the residents. Based on the data of 325 samples, the direct and indirect relationship between the variables in the model is verified through path analysis and mediation analysis. The empirical results show that: firstly, the urban residents’ perception of recycled water reuse can activate their emotion for recycled water, and the emotion includes both positive emotion and negative emotion; secondly, although the recognition of recycled water can stimulate both positive and negative emotional factors, there are great differences between positive and negative emotions on the initiation, formation and sustainability of recycled water behavior. Negative emotion has a certain effect on the initiation of recycled water reuse behavior, but it has no significant effect on the formation and sustainability of recycled water reuse behavior. By contrast, positive emotion has no significant effect on the initiation of recycled water reuse behavior, but it has a significant effect on the formation and sustainability of recycled water reuse behavior. That is to say, at different stages, the recycled water reuse behaviors are affected differently by positive emotions and negative emotions. Thirdly, compared with negative emotional variables, positive emotions have a greater impact on individual recycled water reuse behavior. Positive emotional variables can significantly mediate the impact of cognitive variables on recycled water reuse behavior habits. In other words, positive emotions play a vital role in the sustainability of recycled water reuse.

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