寒区集训新兵睡眠质量与心理健康状况的关系研究

目的:探讨寒区新兵睡眠质量与心理健康状况的关系.方法:以SCL-90、PSQI测评1000名新兵的心理健康状况及睡眠质量.分析睡眠质量与心理健康状况的关系.结果:①有效问卷892份,睡眠质量差者82人,占总调查人数的9%.②睡眠质量差者SCL-90总分及各因子分均显著高于睡眠质量可者.⑨回归分析与PSQI分值相关性最大的SCL-90因子分是抑郁、躯体化及偏执.结论:寒区新兵睡眠质量与心理健康状况关系密切.     

高职高专学生心理健康教育实施方案的探讨

为进一步加强和改进学校大学生心理健康教育与咨询工作,把大学生心理健康教育工作推向一个新台阶,本文根据中央和省委省政府对改进大学生思想政治教育的实施意见中涉及心理健康教育的内容和文件精神,结合学校开展心理健康教育的实际实效,对高职高专大学生心理健康教育实施方案做了如下探讨。     

工作属性与员工心理健康的关系

以Karasek的工作要求一控制模型为分析框架,通过对三家企业219名员工的问卷调查,探讨工作属性与员工心理健康的关系。研究结果显示,工作属性中的工作要求、工作控制均与心理健康显著相关;在控制了人口统计学变量之后,二者所解释的心理健康方差变异量为7%;工作要求和工作控制的交互效应也能够有效预测心理健康。这些结果提示:工作要求过高和工作控制缺乏都会导致员工的心理健康下降,员工的心理健康是工作要求和工作控制共同作用的结果。     

工作属性与员工心理健康的关系

以Karasek的工作要求一控制模型为分析框架,通过对三家企业219名员工的问卷调查,探讨工作属性与员工心理健康的关系。研究结果显示,工作属性中的工作要求、工作控制均与心理健康显著相关;在控制了人口统计学变量之后,二者所解释的心理健康方差变异量为7％;工作要求和工作控制的交互效应也能够有效预测心理健康。这些结果提示：工作要求过高和工作控制缺乏都会导致员工的心理健康下降,员工的心理健康是工作要求和工作控制共同作用的结果。     

试论大学生心理健康教育的四大误区

心理健康教育是大学生素质教育不可或缺的一部分,当前大学生心理健康教育存在着四大误区:标准误区、目标误区、操作误区和评价误区。这些误区制约着大学生心理健康教育的发展。高校要遵循教育规律,结合大学生的心理发展特点,正确把握心理健康的内涵,明确心理健康教育的目标,采用积极的评价方式,正确实施心理健康教育,方能走出误区,切实地促进大学生身心和谐发展和心理素质的全面提高。     

成年女性压力性尿失禁患者心理健康状况调查分析

目的:探讨成年女性压力性尿失禁患者的心理健康状况,提出护理干预方法。方法:采用SCL-90及自编一般资料,对浏阳市市区80名有压力性尿失禁症状的成年女性进行心理健康自评调查,另80名无压力性尿失禁症状的成年女性为对照。结果:有压力性尿失禁症状的成年女性SCL-90总分、阳性项目数、阳性项目均分及躯体化、人际关系、抑郁、焦虑、敌对、恐怖和精神病性等因子评分均明显高于对照组及常模组(P<0.05)。结论:成年女性压力性尿失禁患者心理健康状况不容乐观,应引起重视,并对其进行护理干预,加强对她们的心理疏通,可以提高疾病的防治效果。     

高职医专学生心理健康状况的的调查分析

以探讨高职医学专科大学生心理健康状况为目的,对580名在校学生进行症状自评量表(SCL-90)、青少年心理价值取向的研究。结果表明,医学专科大学生SCL-90总分高于全国常模,也高于非医学专业学生,心理障碍检出率为43.63%;家庭经济、学业成绩、就业去向为影响其心理健康的主要因素。因此,医学专科大学生的心理健康水平要引起心理健康工作者的重视。     

浅谈中学生心理健康现状与体育锻炼的关系

中学生心理健康现状及其与体育锻炼关系的调查显示,学生心理问题普遍存在且较为严重,主要表现在身体症状、恐怖倾向、对人焦虑和自责倾向,且具有性别差异。学历是影响中学生心理健康的主要原因,高中阶段是心理问题的敏感期,体育锻炼对中学生心理健康发展有促进作用,体育锻炼的主观能动性是影响心理健康状况的成因之一,中等强度的体育锻炼对中学生心理健康具有增益作用,中学生的运动潜力需要挖掘,有必要对体育教学进行改革。     

独资和国有企业员工心理健康状况的比较研究

目的探讨独资与国有企业员工心理健康状况。方法采用焦虑自评量表(SAS)对170名员工进行测评。结果独资企业员工SAS总粗分为27.96±8.1,国有企业员工总粗分为32.57±9.81。结论独资企业与国有企业员工心理健康有差异,前者优于后者。     

陆军青年军人心理素质与人格、心理健康的相关研究

目的:探讨陆军青年军人心理素质与人格、心理健康的关系。方法:整群抽取陆军青年官兵881名,采用军人心理素质量表、艾森克人格问卷(EPQ)、症状自评量表(SCL-90)进行测评,进行方差分析和相关分析。结果:(1)陆军青年军人心理素质各因子分及总分与EPQ人格问卷中的E分呈显著正相关(p<0.01);与N分、P分呈显著负相关(p<0.01)。高、中、低心理素质水平军人E、P、N得分比较有显著差异(p<0.05),表现为在E量表得分上高心理素质组>中等心理素质组>低心理素质组;而在P、N量表得分上则反之。(2)陆军青年军人心理素质各因子分及总分均与SCL-90各因子分和总均分呈显著负相关(p<0.01)。高、中、低心理素质水平军人SCL-90各因子得分比较有显著差异(p<0.05),表现为低心理素质组>中等心理素质组>高心理素质组。结论:陆军青年军人心理素质与心理健康密切相关,心理素质越高,其心理健康水平也越高。     

Perfectionism and Anxiety: A Paradox in Intellectual Giftedness?

Numerous authors reported a prevalence of perfectionism in gifted populations. In addition, an unhealthy form of perfectionism that leads to anxiety disorder has been described. Using self-report measures (CAPS and R-CMAS) with 132 children, we hypothesized that intellectually gifted children express a higher level of perfectionism and anxiety. Our results pointed out a paradox: the gifted group obtained a higher self-oriented perfectionism score than the control group in 6th grade, but present the same level of anxiety. In contrast, the gifted group showed the same level of perfectionism than non-gifted 5(th) graders, but reported a higher anxiety level. Thus, the interplay between perfectionism and anxiety appears to be more complex than a simple linear relationship in giftedness.     

Characteristics of Women with Persistent Thinness

Objective: Western society has become increasingly obesogenic. Despite this trend, some individuals maintain low weights throughout their lives. Little is known about the characteristics of persistently thin individuals. This study examined demographic, health, and psychiatric characteristics of women who reported having been persistently thin throughout childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. Research Methods and Procedures: Participants were 1022 female members of a population‐based twin registry. Participants completed a mail survey that included questions regarding demographics, body size in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, health behaviors and satisfaction, disordered eating, perfectionism, and personality. In previous interview waves, participants completed diagnostic interviews assessing psychiatric and substance use disorders. Results: Persistent thinness was associated with a significantly later age at menarche, lower rates of dieting and binge eating, greater health satisfaction, higher self‐esteem, and lower perfectionism and body dissatisfaction. Discussion: Persistent thinness appears to be associated with greater well‐being in the present and a later age of menarche in the past. Whether later menarche is causally related to thinness or whether later menarche, persistent thinness, and enhanced well‐being all result from a third unmeasured variable such as high sports participation is yet to be resolved.     

An Etiological Model of Perfectionism

Objective

Perfectionism has been recognized as a transdiagnostic factor that is relevant to anxiety disorders, eating disorders and depression. Despite the importance of perfectionism in psychopathology to date there has been no empirical test of an etiological model of perfectionism.

Method

The present study aimed to address the paucity of research on the etiology of perfectionism by developing and testing an etiological model using a sample of 311 clients seeking treatment.

Results

Structural equation modeling showed a direct relationship between high Parental Expectations and Criticism, and Perfectionism. There was also an indirect relationship between Parental Bonding and Perfectionism that was mediated by core schemas of disconnection and rejection. Finally, it was found that Neuroticism had both an indirect relationship, which was mediated by core schemas, and a direct relationship with perfectionism.

Conclusions

The study provided the first direct test of an etiological model of perfectionism to date. Clinical implications include investigating whether the inclusion of etiological factors in the understanding and treatment of perfectionism is effective.     

Anxiety Mediates the Relationship between Perfectionism and Insomnia Symptoms: A Longitudinal Study

Objectives

Individuals with insomnia often report aspects of perfectionism and symptoms of anxiety and depression. Investigation of these factors together has been limited. As such, the aim of the present study was to examine the extent to which the association between perfectionism and insomnia symptoms was mediated by anxiety and depression, concurrently and longitudinally.

Methods

Seventy-six members from the general-population participated at baseline. Data from 57 participants were subsequently analysed at twelve-month follow-up. Insomnia symptoms were assessed using The Insomnia Severity Index (ISI). Perfectionism was assessed using two Multidimensional Perfectionism Scales (F-MPS; HF-MPS). Symptoms of anxiety and depression were assessed using The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). Correlational analysis examined longitudinal associations between perfectionism and insomnia symptoms. Hierarchical regression analysis examined whether significant associations remained after controlling for anxiety and depression.

Results

Baseline insomnia symptoms were associated with future doubts about action. Further, this relationship was mediated by preceding symptoms of anxiety and concurrent symptoms of insomnia. Similarly, baseline insomnia symptoms were also associated with future parental criticism. However this relationship was partially mediated by preceding symptoms of anxiety, and was not mediated by concurrent insomnia symptoms.

Conclusions

Symptoms of insomnia appear to be related to an increase in negative perfectionistic thinking in the form of doubts about action and parental criticism, however these relationships appear to be mediated by symptoms of anxiety. Therefore, treatments for insomnia should address anxiety symptoms with the prospect of preventing the accentuation of aspects of perfectionism due to poor sleep.     

Perfectionism in Anorexia Nervosa: Novel Performance Based Evidence

Existing research into perfectionism in Anorexia Nervosa (AN) is limited by a reliance upon self-report measures. This study used novel performance based measures to investigate whether there is behavioural evidence for elevated perfectionism in AN. 153 participants took part in the study – 81 with a diagnosis of AN and 72 healthy controls (HCs). Participants completed two performance based tasks assessing perfectionism – a text replication task and a bead sorting task – along with self-report measures of perfectionism. Significant group differences were observed on both tasks. In the text replication task the AN group took significantly longer compared with healthy controls (p = 0.03, d = 0.36) and produced significantly higher quality copies (p = <0.01, d = 0.45). In the bead sorting task, there was a trend towards more participants in the AN group choosing to check their work compared with the HC group (p = 0.07, d = 0.30) and the AN group took significantly longer checking than those in the HC group (p = <0.01, d = 0.45). Only copy quality uniquely predicted scores on self report measures of perfectionism. This study provides empirically tested evidence of elevated performance based perfectionism in AN compared with a healthy control group.     

Live to Work or Love to Work: Work Craving and Work Engagement

Objective

According to the theory of work craving, a workaholic has a craving for self-worth compensatory incentives and an expectation of relief from negative affect experienced through neurotic perfectionism and an obsessive-compulsive style of working. Research has shown that workaholism and work engagement should be considered as two distinct work styles with different health consequences. However, the mechanisms underlying the adoption of these work styles have been neglected. The present study proposes that work craving and work engagement are differentially associated with self-regulatory competencies and health. In particular, we expected that the working styles mediate the relationships between emotional self-regulation and health. Methods: In the cross-sectional study, 469 teachers from German schools completed online administered questionnaires. By means of structural equation modeling, we tested two indirect paths: a) from self-relaxation deficits via work craving to poor health and b) from self-motivation competencies via work engagement to good health.

Results

As expected, we found evidence that a) the negative relationship of self-relaxation deficits on health was partially mediated by work craving and b) the positive relationship of self-motivation competencies on health was partially mediated by work engagement.

Conclusions

The present study emphasizes the importance of self-regulation competencies for healthy or unhealthy work styles. Whereas work craving was associated with a low ability to down-regulate negative emotions and poor health, work engagement was associated with a high ability to up-regulate positive emotions and good health.     

Mental Health Functioning in the Human Rights Field: Findings from an International Internet-Based Survey

Human rights advocates play a critical role in promoting respect for human rights world-wide, and engage in a broad range of strategies, including documentation of rights violations, monitoring, press work and report-writing, advocacy, and litigation. However, little is known about the impact of human rights work on the mental health of human rights advocates. This study examined the mental health profile of human rights advocates and risk factors associated with their psychological functioning. 346 individuals currently or previously working in the field of human rights completed an internet-based survey regarding trauma exposure, depression, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), resilience and occupational burnout. PTSD was measured with the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Checklist-Civilian Version (PCL-C) and depression was measured with the Patient History Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9). These findings revealed that among human rights advocates that completed the survey, 19.4% met criteria for PTSD, 18.8% met criteria for subthreshold PTSD, and 14.7% met criteria for depression. Multiple linear regressions revealed that after controlling for symptoms of depression, PTSD symptom severity was predicted by human rights-related trauma exposure, perfectionism and negative self-appraisals about human rights work. In addition, after controlling for symptoms of PTSD, depressive symptoms were predicted by perfectionism and lower levels of self-efficacy. Survey responses also suggested high levels of resilience: 43% of responders reported minimal symptoms of PTSD. Although survey responses suggest that many human rights workers are resilient, they also suggest that human rights work is associated with elevated rates of PTSD and depression. The field of human rights would benefit from further empirical research, as well as additional education and training programs in the workplace about enhancing resilience in the context of human rights work.     

A twin study of genetic and environmental influences on psychological traits of eating disorders in a Japanese female sample.

The purpose of the present study was to clarify genetic and environmental origins of psychological traits of eating disorders using a Japanese female twin sample. Participants were 162 pairs of female twins consisting of 116 pairs of monozygotic (MZ) twins and 46 pairs of dizygotic (DZ) twins in their adolescence. Psychological traits of eating disorders were assessed with five subscales of the Eating Disorder Inventory (EDI). As a result of using univariate twin analyses, among five subscales of EDI (maturity fears, ineffectiveness, interpersonal distrust, interoceptive awareness, and perfectionism), perfectionism showed significant additive genetic contributions and individual specific environmental effects. On the other hand, maturity fears, ineffectiveness, interoceptive awareness, and interpersonal distrust indicated significant shared environment contributions and individual specific environment effects. The results suggest the importance of both genetic and shared environmental influences on psychological traits of eating disorders in the present study.     

Who’s afraid of perfectionist moral enhancement? A reply to Sparrow

Robert Sparrow recently argued that state-driven moral bioenhancement is morally problematic because it inevitably invites moral perfectionism. While sharing Sparrow’s worry about state-driven moral bioenhancement, I argue that his anti-perfectionism argument is too strong to offer useful normative guidance. That is, if we reject state-driven moral bioenhancement because it cannot remain neutral between different conceptions of the good, we might have to conclude that all forms of moral enhancement programs ought not be made compulsory, including the least controversial and most popular state-driven program: compulsory (moral) education. In this paper, I argue that, instead, the spirit of Sparrow’s worry should be recast in the language of the capability approach—an approach that strives to enhance people’s capabilities to develop their own conceptions of the good by restricting itself from endorsing thick conceptions of the good. The distinction made regarding thick and thin conceptions of the good helps to capture sentiments against state-driven bioenhancement programs without falling prey to the issues I raise against Sparrow’s anti-perfectionist arguments.     

Systemic Negligence: Why It Is Morally Important for Developing World Bioethics

In the context of clinical and non‐clinical biomedical practices, negligence is usually understood as a lapse of a specific professional duty by a healthcare worker or by a medical facility. This paper tries to delineate systemic negligence as another kind of negligence in the context of health systems, particularly in developing countries, that needs to be recognized and addressed. Systemic negligence is not just a mere collection of stray incidences of medical errors and system failures in a health system, but is proposed in this paper as a more pervasive kind of neglect. Several non‐medical factors, such as lack of social and political will, also contribute to it and hence is more difficult to address in a health system. This paper argues that recognizing systemic negligence and including it research agenda have special moral importance for researchers in developing world bioethics, public health ethics and for health activists in the developing world. For, it can be a potent health system barrier, and can seriously impair efforts to ensure patient safety, particularly in the weaker health systems. As it erodes accountability in a health system, addressing it is also important for the twin goals of ensuring patient safety and improving health system performance. Above all, it needs to be addressed because the tolerance of its persistence in a health system seems to undervalue health as a social good.