Wegen ihrer psychophysiologischen und emotionalen Besonderheiten standen die Primären Dystonien viele Jahrzehnte lang im Spannungsfeld unterschiedlichster medizinischer und psychologischer Ätiologievorstellungen und Therapiestrategien. Inzwischen ist klar,...
Aetiology and life-course of conduct disorder in childhood: Risk factors for the development of an antisocial personality disorderSummary:Objectives: Conduct disorders are among the most common disorders encountered in child and adolescent psychiatry. ...
Zusammenfassung: Persönlichkeitskorrelate der psychophysiologischen Stressreaktion bei inhaftierten Jugendlichen Fragestellung: Es war das Ziel der vorliegenden Arbeit, die Beziehung zwischen dem Persönlichkeitstypus nach Weinberger und ...Summary:Background: To examine the relationship between personality type and physiological response to stress among juvenile delinquents. Methods: Delinquent males (N = 42, mean age 16.5, SD = 1) recruited from a convenience sample at local juvenile ...
Viele diagnostische Verfahren in der Klinischen Psychologie und Psychiatrie stützen sich auf retrospektive Selbstberichte. Solche retrospektiven Selbstberichte sind häufig beeinträchtigt durch Erinnerungsfehler und eignen sich kaum, um kurzfristige ...
Biological foundations of impulsive-aggressive behaviorAbstract. Aggressive behavior disorders manifesting in early childhood are among the most common psychological disorders. They are often accompanied by lack of impulse control and other severe ...
Zusammenfassung. Die vorliegende Untersuchung soll die Rezeption und Verarbeitung von vier unterschiedlich angstauslösenden Verkehrssicherheits-Werbespots anhand subjektiver Self-Report-Daten und der physiologischen Erfassung von Herzfrequenzänderungen ...
Experimentell investigation of the questionnaire for the assessment of disgust sensitivityAbstract.Background: The experimental investigation of a new questionnaire for the assessment of disgust sensitivity (FEE) was lacking. Objective: Do subjects high ...
Zusammenfassung. An der Fakultät für Psychologie der Universität Wien wurden unter der Leitung von Erich Vanecek Musikwirkungsforschungen mit modernen psycho-physiologischen Methoden durchgeführt. Thomas Biegl wies Veränderungen einiger physiologischer ...
Neurobiology of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorderAbstract. Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is an early-onset, clinically and presumably etiologically heterogeneous disorder characterized by inattention, hyperactivity, and ...
Abstract. We provide a short overview of the research in Behavioural Cardiology at the Department of Psychology at the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz focussing on two lines of research: Studies of psychosocial variables that might enhance or ...
Biocyber psychology: subjective and physiological reactions in flight phobics and normal subjects during flight simulationsAbstract. An effective treatment of anxiety (exposure) is assumed to be accompanied by an activation and reorganization of fear ...
Emotional and cardiovascular reactions of couples during a couple-therapeutic intervention: a pilot studyAbstract.Background: The efficacy of marital therapy and distress prevention training for couples is regarded as being well documented. However, ...
Psychophysiological stress reactions to a simulated fire in an underground parking lotBackground: Usually, different behaviors for coping with emergencies are assessed in retrospective and are difficult to compare due to numerous differences in emergency ...
Abstract We examined the use of smoothing to enhance the detection of response coupling from the activity of different response systems. Three different types of moving average smoothers were applied to both simulated interbeat interval (IBI) and ...
Abstract: Prior literature reviews addressing cardiovascular correlates of misconduct have focused on resting heart rate (HR) and skin conductance (SC). The present paper is a quantitative review of studies that tested the relationship between child/...
Abstract. Although band and spot electrodes have been compared in prior research, they have not been evaluated (a) at identical anatomical locations, (b) during a single laboratory session, (c) with measures taken in close temporal proximity, (d) using a ...
Startle reactions and their relationship to dissociative symptoms were assessed in acute stress disorder (ASD) patients. Electromyographic (EMG) responses, heart-rate reactions (HRR), and skin conductance responses (SCR) to startle stimuli were compared ...
We tested the hypothesis that African Americans would show greater anxiety than their European American counterparts when entering laboratory research settings. We examined subjective and physiological anxiety measures obtained both inside and outside the ...
Abstract. Individual and shared goals can be achieved through social interpersonal interaction, cooperation and competition being two different yet similar strategies to reach such aims and objectives. Nevertheless, there is a gap in ...
Abstract. The aims of this study were to assess the predictive role of coping-related variables (CRV) on cardiac vagal activity (derived from heart rate variability), and to investigate the influence of CRV (and cardiac vagal activity) on prone rifle ...