Pub Date : 2018-06-30DOI: 10.23937/2572-4037.1510026
Kanaan Richard Antony Alexander, Jamroz Dorota
Culture is thought to be key determinant of conversion disorder presentation, with culturally-normed social expectations being one possible influence, yet this is rarely studied. We present a case of a young woman from a cultural background where social expectations were strong, now living in Australia, who developed conversion disorder in the context of struggling against these expectations, and expressed this as a desire to escape. We discuss the aetiological role this desire may take in cases of conversion disorder, and what that tells us about conversion disorder in other cultural contexts.
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Pub Date : 2015-01-01Epub Date: 2015-02-21DOI: 10.23937/2572-4037.1510003
Dawn W Foster, Georges E Khalil, Samantha G Farris, Till W Bärnighausen, Alexander V Prokhorov
Background: The current study sought to evaluate the main and interactive effect of health perceptions, smoking quit attempt history, and readiness to change with respect to depressive symptoms among college student smokers.
Method: The present data came from baseline data from a randomized trial and included 495 undergraduate students (Mage = 23.84, SD = 4.92, 47.47% female) who reported smoking at least 1 cigarette per day.
Results: A three-way interaction emerged between smoking quit attempt history, health perceptions, and readiness to change with respect to depressive symptoms. Quit attempt history was positively associated with depressive symptoms, particularly among individuals high in readiness to change if they perceived their health as poorer relative to peers; however, quit attempt history was negatively associated with depressive symptoms, particularly among individuals high in readiness to change if they perceived their health as comparable or better than that of their peers.
Conclusion: These findings support the assertion that readiness to change, quit history and perceived health interact in a dynamic way to confer greater risk for poor outcomes including smoking- (e.g., cessation failure) and psychological-related outcomes (e.g., increased depressive symptoms). As such, development of informed interventions and programs targeting readiness to change to improve quit history and perceptions of health may provide unique benefit.
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