Title:

Psychological implications of the application of health state continuous monitoring systems in cardiovascular pathologies, Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology, 2005, nr 4

Creator:

Andreassi, Silvia ; Ortu, Francesca

Subject and Keywords:

personality, cognitive style, appraisal, defences, mastery, coping ; cognitive style ; coping ; mastery ; appraisal ; defences

Description:

In recent years, specialist literature has particularly focused on the understanding of the modes of psychological adaptation to organic pathologies. A number of close investigations within the fields of medical and health psychology have been devoted to the analysis of situations characterised by a state of chronicity of organic pathology. Relying on the data deriving from such studies, the different authors tend to point out that illnesses represent a threat to the subject’s psychophysical and relational integrity, thus constituting as a source of frustration and anxiety. Researchers belonging to different theoretical approaches raise a number of questions as to the role of personality and/or the subjective mode to react to tough, stressful, unexpected, negative situations, such as the emergence of a severe physical illness. Current research approaches essentially intend to explain the individual differences in the reactivity to negative stimuli by analysing the interactions between situational attributes and personality dispositions (for instance, trait anxiety).

Publisher:

Instytut Łączności - Państwowy Instytut Badawczy, Warszawa

Date:

2005, nr 4

Resource Type:

artykuł

Format:

application/pdf

DOI:

10.26636/jtit.2005.4.344

ISSN:

1509-4553

eISSN:

1899-8852

Source:

Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology

Language:

ang

Rights Management:

Biblioteka Naukowa Instytutu Łączności