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V Hodapp

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PubMed1992

A comparison between two methods for assessing heartbeat perception.

In this study two methods assessing heartbeat perception ability were compared. Subjects (N = 64) completed Schandry's (1981) mental tracking task and Störmer's (1988) heartbeat discrimination procedure (based on Whitehead, Drescher, Heiman, & Blackwell, 1977). In addition, subjects were tested on their ability to estimate the duration of time intervals. A high degree of correspondence was found between the two heartbeat perception tasks for the extreme groups of very good and very poor perceivers, but a low degree of correspondence emerged for the middle range of performance (overall r = .59, p less than .001). Time estimation did not correlate significantly with either heartbeat detection procedure. Blood pressure measurements taken after the Schandry task and between Störmer test blocks showed that blood pressure amplitude was elevated among good perceivers on both heartbeat detection tasks.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1991

[A questionnaire for assessing anger and expression of anger].

The State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory (STAXI) developed by Spielberger is a measure for state- and trait-anger and three different forms of anger expression. People differ in the extent to which they express anger overtly and directly (anger out), how often anger feelings are hold in or suppressed (anger in) or in the extent to which they are able to control their angry feelings or their overtly expressed anger (anger control). The scales are developed to determine the relevance of individual dispositions to express anger in the etiology and course of psychosomatic illness like hypertension, coronary heart disease etc. The present report is a summary of the research reports presented by Schwenkmezger and Hodapp (1986, 1989). It describes the development of the German adaptation of the STAXI, including itemmetrical and factor analytic results, detailed research on construct validity, and first experimental analyses.

Adult↗
PubMed1990

Cardiovascular reactivity, anxiety and anger during perceived controllability.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between emotional and cardiovascular responses in an aversive active coping situation. A letter detection task was presented to 64 male students. From a stream of letters scrolling over a screen, subjects were required to eliminate specific letters. Task difficulty was varied by changing the speed with which the stream moved along on the screen. Perceived control over an aversive loud tone was manipulated by instruction. While blood pressure differences in the experimental conditions could not be found, the group with perceived control displayed greater increases in heart rate and greater shortening of pulse transit time. In subjects low in trait anger, belief of control over aversive tones led to heightened cardiovascular reactivity compared with subjects high in trait anger. The results are discussed with respect to suppression of anger and a possibly opposite effect of emotion and mental effort in aversive active coping situations.

Adult↗
PubMed1976

[Subjective stress and childhood memories in patients with essential hypertension].

A group of essential hypertension patients (n equals 168) and a group of unselected controls (n equals 302) completed a questionaire constructed to measure perceived threat and rating-scales to judge the emotional atmosphere of personal childhood experiences. The patients do not regard their present life-situations as more threatening than the controls and they report more pleasant childhood memories than the controls. These results contradict those obtained in previous work which may be due to the relative lack of emphasis placed on coping variables in the present study.

Child Development↗