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Relationships between sensation seeking and emotional symptomatology during smoking cessation with nicotine patch therapy.

This study explored relationships between the sensation-seeking trait and the development of emotional symptomatology during smoking cessation with nicotine transdermal patches. Twenty-five subjects were evaluated before they stopped smoking, on Day 8, Day 30, Day 90, and Day 120. Initial motives for smoking and the sensation-seeking personality trait were tested as possible predictors for the development of specific mood disturbances. Our subjects scored very high on sensation seeking, consistent with previous results on smokers. This may also be due to the well-known tendency of high sensation-seekers to be willing to try new experiences. The sensation-seeking trait did not predict the issue of cessation. However, it was related to emotional deficit (anhedonia, affective blunting), tiredness, and a lack of energy, before and during smoking cessation. Two different interpretations of emotional deficit are proposed.

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[Sensation seeking and mood dimensions in depressive states].

This study presents the investigation of the relations between dimensions of depressive mood and sensations seeking in 55 hospitalized depressed subjects. The concept of sensation seeking, identified by M. Zuckerman as a personality dimension, has been defined as the need for the subject to reach his optimal level of activation. The four subscores of sensation seeking, relatively independent, are identified in the sensation seeking scale; they stand at different levels on the dimensions of activation and pleasure which are emotional dimensions. These emotional dimensions are investigated in the exploration of the emotional components of depressive mood; the different symptomatic regroupings, such as blunted affect or impulsivity, do not have the same relations with these dimensions. The sensation seeking concept appears fruitful to investigate the different troubles of affective dynamic, which stand on the expressive and behavioral level, and on the subjective level. As in several studies with normal populations, we find again the same inverse relation between age and sensation seeking, and men obtain higher scores on the Thrill and Adventure seeking factor and on the Desinhibition factor. Globally, depressed subjects have lower scores of sensation seeking than normal subjects (paired by age and sex); but the weakness of sensation seeking is not proportional to the intensity of depression (Hamilton Depressive Scale) and to the the intensity of anxiety (Covi Brief Anxiety Scale). Interesting relations appear with the depressive mood factors, which agree with previous studies of sensation seeking in psychology and psychopathology.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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[French translation and validation of Izard's differential emotion scale. Study of the verbal qualification of emotions].

This work presents the validation of a French version of the emotional self rating scale by Izard (Differential Emotion Scale). This scale is based on the theory of the Discrete Emotions which proposes the existence of ten fundamental emotions. This self-rating scale consists of thirty emotional adjectives (three for each emotion). The validation was done by using a non inductive method (by asking the subject to describe his present emotional state) with 84 control subjects. It shows that this version is valid. Main results are first the binarisation of the emotions (positive and negative), then the existence of complex factors with psychopathological meaning after factorial analysis. These results are in agreement with a theory of expressive emotional levels more than with the theory of discrete emotions in psychopathology.

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[Sensation seeking and anhedonia in risk taking. Study of a population of bungy jumpers].

This study presents the investigation of the relations between sensation seeking (41) and anhedonia in 80 subjects who practice a risk taking sport, bengy jump. These relations were examined according to different variables which characterize the practice of bengy jump: the total number of previous jumps and the motivations to jump (1. personal motivation, 2. professional motivation--working in the jumping organization, and 3. group motivation--for example being leaded to jump by friends). We also assessed the use of psychoactive substances. All jumpers (men and women) have higher scores than control subjects in Thrill and adventure seeking dimension. In men, the more the subjects score on this dimension, the less they score on the physical anhedonia scale (8). In women, Experience Seeking and Boredom Susceptibility dimensions are positively correlated with physical anhedonia and with the number of jumps. Moreover, women with personal motivation are those who score the highest on Thrill and Adventure Seeking and Boredom Susceptibility dimensions. These results suggest that in women, sensation seeking through bengy jumping may be linked to a boredom tendency and driven by a need to compensate for a difficulty in experiencing emotions and sensations from common and mundane stimuli. In men, high frequency of bengy jumping was negatively related to the use of psychoactive substances, suggesting that bengy jump, in a compulsive form recalling an addictive behavior, is a specific and preferential way of stimulation seeking.

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