Aggression and childhood asthma: A study in a natural setting

Straker, Norman; Tamerin, John S.

doi:10.1016/0022-3999(74)90076-2

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“…Asthmatic children in the study by Tal & Miklich (1976) had a worsening of lung function after vividly remembering emotional events, but the patterns were individually-specific and there was no general causal relationship between lung function and any particular emotion (Vazquez & Buceta, 1993). The current induction of emotion primarily comprised anxiety and (according to exit-interviewing) sadness -not anger, although the latter might have been more influential with respect to airways obstruction (Straker & Tamerin, 1974). However, sadness has also been reported to be a trigger of exacerbations of asthma (Levitan, 1985).…”

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confidence: 93%

“…Children were believed to inhibit hostility and crying, in order not to stray from a loved one's affection, causing respiratory distress and asthma. At first glance, this remarkable assumption found some support, as observations in a summercamp revealed that children with severe asthma showed less aggression than children with mild asthma (Straker & Tamerin, 1974). Inhibition of negative emotions by children, however, could be a consequence of a history of asthma, acquired after repeated exposure to emotional induction of asthma (Jurenec & Ullman, 1984 ;Florin et al 1985).…”

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confidence: 98%

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The relationship between negative emotions and acute subjective and objective symptoms of childhood asthma

Rietveld¹,

Prins²

1998

Psychol. Med.

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Negative emotions affect subjective, rather than objective symptoms of childhood asthma. It was suggested that children in a negative emotional state, uncertain about the condition of their airways, are inclined to interpret exercise-related general sensations (fatigue, heart pounding, sighing) in line with expectations as symptoms of airways obstruction. Consequently, they may report relatively high breathlessness, irrespective of actual objective symptoms of asthma.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 93%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 98%

The relationship between negative emotions and acute subjective and objective symptoms of childhood asthma

Rietveld¹,

Prins²

1998

Psychol. Med.

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“…Although these psychological issues need further resolution, an extremely important aspect of this study was that psychosocial attributes and immunity of well-managed asthmatic adolescents did not differ from healthy adolescents. Earlier suggestions for a greater deviancy in personal traits and behavior in asthmatic adolescents may, in fact, have been a reflection of the quality of control of asthma (Steiner, Higgs, Fritz, Laszlo, & Harvey, 1987;Straker & Tamerin, 1974). Behavioral problems were present when asthmatic children did not receive adequate treatment, irrespective of the severity of asthma (Norrish, Tooley, & Godfrey, 1977).…”

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confidence: 95%

Relationship of social support to stress responses and immune function in healthy and asthmatic adolescents

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Although most clinicians believe that social support has beneficial effects on health, the mechanisms mediating this relationship have not been clearly established. We examined the direct effect of social support on several immune measures and its role in moderating the response to academic exams in healthy and asthmatic adolescents. Three types of students--healthy, mild asthma, and severe asthma--completed social support and stress questionnaires and gave blood samples during the midsemester and final exam periods. Social support and natural killer cell (NK) function showed a significant reduction during exams in both healthy and asthmatic adolescents. Social support, however, did not have a direct effect on immune responses. Nevertheless, high social support appeared to attenuate the magnitude of exam-induced reduction in NK activity, suggesting a role for social support in protecting against immune decrements during times of stress.

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“…More recent clinical observations likewise indicate that an asthmatic attack is apt to occur just when an expected outburst of rage fails to appear (McGregor 1938, Weiss & English 1949, Bastiaans & Groen 1955, Jackson 1976; and formal tests seem to confirm that asthmatics are less extrapunitive ( Mathé & Knapp 1971) and more intropunitive than normal subjects (Pierloot & Van Roy 1969). Moreover, measurements have shown significant airway constriction in asthmatic children and young people at the actual time of frustrating situations (Mathé & Knapp 1971, Straker & Tamerin 1974, Hollaender & Florin 1983.…”

Section: Asthmamentioning

confidence: 96%

“…Asthmatic children, too, are generally anxious, inhibited and unable to express their anger (Miller & Baruch 1950, Bastiaans & Groen 1955, Alcock 1960, Straker & Tamerin 1974, Hollander & Florin 1983. Though they have fiercely aggressive fantasies (Jessner et al 1955, Bacon 1956, which may lead to isolated outbursts or the persecution of a sibling or an animal, they tend to become intensely self-punitive if they have allowed their hostile feelings to emerge, even in play (Miller & Baruch 1950).…”

Section: Asthmamentioning

confidence: 99%

Internal Conflict

Woodmansey¹

1989

Brit J Psychotherapy

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. … the extraordinary propensity of the human being to join hands with external forces in an attack upon his own existence is one of the most remarkable of biological phenomena (Menninger 1938) The term 'superego’(which should perhaps be replaced by‘anti‐ego’) is used to denote a set of habitual response tendencies that are antagonistic to the self, and cause the subject to behave as if he were two separate persons at war with each other. The superego develops in early life and may be ‘punitive’or‘humiliating’or both. The former kind arises through learning to restrain the self from dangerously rebelling against overwhelming coercion, and the latter through intense striving to avoid parental scorn. The resultant‘internal’conflict resembles the external one between an actual child and a demanding parent; and the relative fortunes of the two antagonists provide a model for understanding the characteristics of many kinds of emotional and psychosomatic disorder. Superego behaviour is propagated from generation to generation; and perpetuates itself in the individual by preventing the responses that, by proving it unnecessary, would lead to its extinction. Self‐punitive conditions are therefore highly resistant to treatment, which must be specially directed to the particular needs of each of the patient's two conflicting parts in turn. To be able to do this, psychotherapists themselves need to be freed from their own internal conflicts during training and later.

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Aggression and childhood asthma: A study in a natural setting

Cited by 15 publications

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The relationship between negative emotions and acute subjective and objective symptoms of childhood asthma

The relationship between negative emotions and acute subjective and objective symptoms of childhood asthma

Relationship of social support to stress responses and immune function in healthy and asthmatic adolescents

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