Control and Efficacy as Interdisciplinary Bridges

Haidt, Jonathan; Rodin, Judith

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“…Previous research on the relationship between perceived control and stress has shown that perceptions of control impact both individuals' psychological and physiological reactions to stressors (e.g. van Eck, Nicolson, & Berkhof, 1998;Haidt & Rodin, 1999). Having a sense of control over one's stressors has been shown to be related to successful coping after stressful events (Lazarus, 1981;Lazarus & Folkman, 1984), increased resistance to health threats (Marks, Murray, Evans, & Willig, 2000) and emotional well-being (Thompson & Spacapan, 1991).…”

Section: Variables Infl Uencing the Hassle-stress Relationshipmentioning

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“…The construct of control has frequently been identifi ed in the literature as an important variable in the stress process (Folkman, 1984;Haidt & Rodin, 1999;Rotter, 1990;Taylor & Aspinwall, 1996;Troup & Dewe, 2002), and refers to an individual's sense of infl uence over events and their reactions to events (Stoyva & Carlson, 1993;Taylor & Aspinwall, 1996). Previous research on the relationship between perceived control and stress has shown that perceptions of control impact both individuals' psychological and physiological reactions to stressors (e.g.…”

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Section: Variables Infl Uencing the Hassle-stress Relationshipmentioning

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“…The self-efficacy construct is differently interpreted in the various papers and a large number of evaluation scales have been used, some of which very poor in terms of psychometric goodness [4][5][6][7]. In rehabilitation setting, patients affected by chronic diseases may have the capability to adjust continuously their coping through a flexible range of responses to life changes.…”

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Application of the general perceived self-efficacy scale in cardiovascular rehabilitation

Zotti

Balestroni

Cerutti

et al. 2016

Monaldi Arch Chest Dis

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Heart failure, oxidative stress and allopurinol. Application of the general perceived self-efficacy scale in cardiovascular rehabilitation. A.M. Zotti, G. Balestroni, P. Cerutti, S. Rossi Ferrario, E. Angelino, M. Miglioretti.Psychosocial support, education and self-management are important complements of rehabilitation programs. A central concept in self-management is self-efficacy, which refers to oneself confidence in reaching a desired goal. The General Perceived Self-Efficacy scale (GSE), developed to measure self-efficacy at the broadest level, could be useful in the rehabilitation setting, in order to assess patients' selfmanagement difficulties as well as to design specific interventions for specific diseases.Aim of this work is to verify the GSE Italian version psychometric properties applied to the rehabilitation setting. Data were analyzed from 395 in-patients attending cardiac (83.8%) and neurological (16.2%) rehabilitation. Cardiac patients suffered from post-MI, CABG or heart-failure; all of the neurological patients suffered from amiotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). They were mostly males (84.5%), and the mean age was 55.7 years. Principal component factor analysis confirmed that GSE has a monofactorial structure with internal consistency of .85. As in previous studies, a gender difference emerged. There was no difference in cardiac patients, on the basis of their specific disease, but they showed higher self-efficacy perception compared to ALS patients. The findings confirm that GSE is a valid measure of self-efficacy in settings characterised by different levels of functional abilities, as in cardiac and neurological rehabilitation.

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“…Allowing rodents to escape or control when a negative stressor, such as an electric shock, ends increases tumor rejection, reduces tumor growth and increases lymphocyte stimulation 51,52 . Furthermore, even the perception of control is sufficient to elicit the same psychophysiological buffering to a stressor as actual control 53 . Glass and Singer 54 illustrated this by exposing human participants to loud noise.…”

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Stressed out: providing laboratory animals with behavioral control to reduce the physiological effects of stress

Gaskill

Garner

2017

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Hans Selye would have made a horrible laboratory animal technician. This budding young 1930s scientist accidently discovered stress physiology and the negative effect chronic exposure has on the body because of his extremely poor rat handling skills 1 . As a result, we know for a fact that husbandry affects the quality of animal models. Despite this knowledge, most labs continue to ignore stressful experiences in rodent models, often because of time or financial costs. Today's researchers and animal technicians of course receive more training and animal welfare oversight than Dr. Selye, but the slow rate of progress in minimizing general stress in the laboratory is disheartening. In addition to the obvious animal welfare ramifications of this lack of advancement, animal models in general show poor predictive validity in terms of translational outcomes in human clinical trials. Roughly 90% of compounds (for example, drugs or other therapeutics) that are 'successful' in animal trials fail in FDA human trials; the majority of these failures are a result of a lack of efficacy 2 . There are certainly many variables that contribute to this failure to translate, including reliance on measures that lack biological or psychological homology, translation of human clinical measures, or simple environmental effects 3 . In addition, we widely assume that strain differences and genetics are a large, if not the largest, influence on mouse behavior. However, in a retrospective study of influences on thermal nociception, strain only accounted for 27% of data variability 4 . On the other hand, environmental factors alone accounted for as much as 42% of data variability in the same study, and the identity of the experimenter actually had more effect on behavior than the genetics of the animal. Other examples highlight even more marked ratios, with enormous effects on experimental power and false discovery rates if not properly accounted for in data analysis 3,5 . Yet there is a substantial lack of research and funding available to determine how the laboratory environment affects animal physiology and behavior, particularly as it relates to characteristics of the human disease being modeled.Temperature as an example of environmental stress Many aspects of the laboratory environment are stressful to rodents and do not accurately reflect human physiology. An animal's environment can include both physiological and social stressors that require an animal to adapt to maintain allostatic balance. Thermal stress, for example, is a known stressor in the laboratory that affects temperature regulation and metabolism and results in poor modeling of human conditions in mouse models. Laboratory mice experience some degree of thermal stress under all recommended housing temperatures 6,7 (typically between 20-26 °C), but are prevented from adequately using many of their behavioral adaptations for thermoregulation and must therefore rely on thermogenic processes. At 23 °C, a mouse's metabolic rate is 60% higher than its metabolic rate at thermoneu...

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Control and Efficacy as Interdisciplinary Bridges

Cited by 173 publications

References 107 publications

Sweating the small stuff: how different types of hassles result in the experience of stress

Sweating the small stuff: how different types of hassles result in the experience of stress

Application of the general perceived self-efficacy scale in cardiovascular rehabilitation

Stressed out: providing laboratory animals with behavioral control to reduce the physiological effects of stress

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