Body Self-awareness Research Articles

Exploring the Influence of Rhythmic Gymnastics on Athletes' Body Self-awareness: A Qualitative Study

This study aims to explore the influence of rhythmic gymnastics on the formation of athletes' body self-awareness. Using qualitative research methods, data were collected through in-depth interviews and observations, focusing on athletes who participated in rhythmic gymnastics training as case studies. The research found that rhythmic gymnastics training promotes athletes' cognition and perception of their own bodies, enhancing their level of body self-awareness. Through exercise and training, athletes gradually develop a positive body self-image and consciousness, increasing their confidence in and satisfaction with their own bodies. Furthermore, rhythmic gymnastics training also enhances athletes' posture control capabilities and bodily coordination, further strengthening their body self-awareness. However, some athletes face body image anxieties and self-evaluation issues during their training, which require attention and timely intervention. In conclusion, rhythmic gymnastics training has a positive impact on the formation of athletes' body self-awareness.

Bodies in the Novel Infinite Jest.

This manuscript provides a literary analysis of the use of bodies in the novel Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. The novel describes a world where oversaturation of external stimulation leads to the perception of mind and body of self of an individual as prosthetic parts, malleable and deformed, wherein the mind fails to feel bodily sensations and characters experience a complete disconnectedness from the self and others. Indeed, the disembodiment of characters and sensations of disconnection leads them to a compulsive quest for connectedness through the use of masks, made-up feelings, mind–body hybrid pain, corporeal malleability, and prostheses. These portrayals of the disordered and disconnectedness between body and mind or self will be described and compared to clinical conditions characterized by a disconnection between mind and body and impaired body self-awareness. Through this exercise, we argue that the use of scientifically inspired pathologized bodies is a means of conveying the stance of Wallace on or criticism of the degradation of society through excessive entertainment.

대학생의 체질량지수, 체형인식, 비만스트레스, 자아존중감에 따른 체중조절행동 예측요인

본 연구는 대학생들의 체중조절행동에 영향을 미치는 요인을 파악하고자 실시하였다. 연구대상자는 C지역 대학에 재학 중인 대학생을 대상으로 자가보고식 설문조사로 시행되었다. 조사기간은 2015.12.01-12.20일 까지였고, 분석대상은 289명 이었다. 자료는 기술적 통계, t-tset, ANOVA, pearson correlation과 stepwise multiple regression으로 분석 하였다. 그 결과 대학생들은 자신의 체형에 대한 인식에 왜곡된 현상이 두드러지며, 특히 타인평가에 의한 체형인식과 비만스트레스, 체중조절경험이 체중조절행동에 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 체중조절행동과의 상관관계에서는 본인체형인식(r=.31, p<.001), 타인평가체형(r=.30, p<.001), 비만스트레스(r=.43, p<.001)등이 체중조절행동과 관련성이 높게 나타났다. 다중회귀분석결과, 체중조절행동에 영향을 미치는 요인으로는 비만스트레스(<TEX>${\beta}=.37$</TEX>, p<.001), 타인평가체형(<TEX>${\beta}=.15$</TEX>, p=.009)이 밀접하게 관련되는 영향요인임을 알 수 있었으며, 이 변수들의 설명력은 20% 인 것으로 나타났다(F=37.30, p<.001). 결론적으로, 대학생의 체형인식에서 타인평가체형, 비만스트레스가 체중조절행동관련 예측요인으로 나타났다. 이러한 예측요인 등을 파악하여 자신의 체형을 객관적으로 판단하여 인식할 수 있고 적절한 체중조절을 할 수 있는 정보제공, 식이와 운동을 격려하는 예방프로그램, 건강교육 및 중재 프로그램의 개발과 실시가 필요하다고 생각된다. This study was conducted to identify factors influencing the weight control behavior of college students. The subjects included college students in the C area, and data were collected through a self reported structured questionnaire from Dec 01 to 20 of 2015. Overall, 289 subjects were analyzed. Analyses consisted of descriptive statistics, t-tests, ANOVA, Pearson's correlation analysis, and stepwise multiple regression analysis. The findings showed a prominent distortion of college students' perceptions of their bodies based on evaluation by others and obesity stress, which had special impacts on their weight control behavior. Weight control behavior, body self-awareness (r=.31, p<0.001), assessment of body by others (r=.30, p<0.001), and obesity stress (r=.43, p<0.001) were closely related to their weight control behavior. Stepwise multiple regression revealed that their weight control behavior was closely influenced by obesity stress (<TEX>${\beta}=.37$</TEX>, p<0.001) and assessment of body by others (<TEX>${\beta}=.15$</TEX>, p=0.009). These variables accounted for 20% of the weight control behavior (F=37.30, p<0.001). Overall, assessment of body by others and obesity stress were found to be predictors of their weight control behavior. These findings indicate that it is necessary to develop and implement information programs and design appropriate prevention programs that can induce healthy weight control behaviors. Such programs should include health education, as well as intervention programs to identify such predictors and help college students judge and perceive their body shapes objectively so that they control their weight in a proper manner.

Structural model of self-care agency in patients with diabetes: A path analysis of the Instrument of Diabetes Self-Care Agency and body self-awareness.

AimThe aim of this study was to examine a causal model of self‐care agency by exploring the relationship between the structure of “body self‐awareness” and the structure of the Instrument of Diabetes Self‐Care Agency (IDSCA).MethodsThe participants were 353 patients with diabetes. The internal consistency of the six items for body self‐awareness was examined by calculating the factor structure using principal factor analysis and Cronbach's alpha. In order to examine the relationship between the seven factors in the IDSCA, a path analysis was conducted.ResultsWith regard to the factor structure, the factor loading of these five items was 0.511–0.743 (α = 0.739). In the path analysis, “body self‐awareness” was influenced by the “ability to acquire knowledge” and had a direct effect (0.33) on the “motivation to self‐manage”, while “motivation to self‐manage” had an effect (−0.32) on the “ability to self‐manage”. The Goodness‐of‐Fit Index was 0.974.Conclusion“Body self‐awareness” plays a part in the self‐care operation process and serves as an intermediary factor to enable the performance of self‐care operations by making the most use of self‐care agency. Moreover, striking a proper balance between self‐management that is focused on the treatment of diabetes and a person's ability for self‐management of diabetes was found to be important.

Exercises in Discipline and Freedom? The Graham Technique

ABSTRACTMartha Graham famously asserted that a dancer achieves “freedom through discipline.” Using a multimodal approach, this essay discusses freedom in dance in relation to the Graham technique. After contextualizing Graham's position aesthetically, historically, and within the field of political theory, I explore observations made by Graham dancers of the 1930s on their experience of the Graham technique. Then I interview students of the Graham technique at the Graham School in New York in the 2010s. Lastly, I complicate, from a feminist perspective, Graham's notion of “freedom through discipline.” The discussion revolves around the dancing body's self-awareness, the dancer's agency in writing herself as a subject, and her position as an object written upon by the Graham regimen of training.

Robot body self-modeling algorithm: a collision-free motion planning approach for humanoids.

Motion planning for humanoid robots is one of the critical issues due to the high redundancy and theoretical and technical considerations e.g. stability, motion feasibility and collision avoidance. The strategies which central nervous system employs to plan, signal and control the human movements are a source of inspiration to deal with the mentioned problems. Self-modeling is a concept inspired by body self-awareness in human. In this research it is integrated in an optimal motion planning framework in order to detect and avoid collision of the manipulated object with the humanoid body during performing a dynamic task. Twelve parametric functions are designed as self-models to determine the boundary of humanoid’s body. Later, the boundaries which mathematically defined by the self-models are employed to calculate the safe region for box to avoid the collision with the robot. Four different objective functions are employed in motion simulation to validate the robustness of algorithm under different dynamics. The results also confirm the collision avoidance, reality and stability of the predicted motion.

The body self-awareness among women practicing fitness: a preliminary study

Abstract The purposes of the present study were to explore the relationship between body awareness and negative body attitude, interoceptive body awareness and physical self in women practicing fitness as well as to analyze the determinants of body awareness. The Body Awareness Questionnaire, the Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness, the Physical Self-Description Questionnaire and the Body Attitude Test were applied to 43 women practicing fitness and 32 non-fitness practitioners. Bodily self-awareness was connected with greater fitness practitioners’ interoceptive body awareness and greater physical self. Noticing and global esteem predicted body awareness in women practicing fitness.

How do you feel when you can't feel your body? Interoception, functional connectivity and emotional processing in depersonalization-derealization disorder.

Depersonalization-Derealization Disorder (DD) typically manifests as a disruption of body self-awareness. Interoception −defined as the cognitive processing of body signals− has been extensively considered as a key processing for body self-awareness. In consequence, the purpose of this study was to investigate whether there are systematic differences in interoception between a patient with DD and controls that might explain the disembodiment symptoms suffered in this disease. To assess interoception, we utilized a heartbeat detection task and measures of functional connectivity derived from fMRI networks in interoceptive/exteroceptivo/mind-wandering states. Additionally, we evaluated empathic abilities to test the association between interoception and emotional experience. The results showed patient's impaired performance in the heartbeat detection task when compared to controls. Furthermore, regarding functional connectivity, we found a lower global brain connectivity of the patient relative to controls only in the interoceptive state. He also presented a particular pattern of impairments in affective empathy. To our knowledge, this is the first experimental research that assesses the relationship between interoception and DD combining behavioral and neurobiological measures. Our results suggest that altered neural mechanisms and cognitive processes regarding body signaling might be engaged in DD phenomenology. Moreover, our study contributes experimental data to the comprehension of brain-body interactions and the emergence of self-awareness and emotional feelings.

Modifying Bodily Self-Awareness during Acupuncture Needle Stimulation Using the Rubber Hand Illusion

Background. The rubber hand illusion (RHI) is an experimental paradigm that manipulates important aspects of body self-awareness. Objectives. We were interested in whether modifying bodily self-awareness by manipulation of body ownership and visual expectations using the RHI would change the subjective perception of pain as well as the autonomic response to acupuncture needle stimulation. Methods. Acupuncture needle stimulation was applied to the real hand during the RHI with (experiment 1) or without (experiment 2) visual expectation while measuring concurrent autonomic changes such as the skin conductance response (SCR). Subjective responses such as perception of the RHI and perceived pain were measured by questionnaires. Results. In experiment 1, the amplitude of the increase in SCR was visibly higher during the synchronous session compared with that of the asynchronous session. In experiment 2, the amplitude of the increase of SCR was lower for the synchronous session compared with that for the asynchronous session. Comparing these two experiments, the visual expectation of needle stimulation produced a greater autonomic response to acupuncture stimulation. Conclusions. Our findings suggest that the sympathetic response to acupuncture needle stimulation is primarily influenced by visual expectation rather than by modifications of body ownership.

Dissociative Identity Disorder May Be Relieved by the Combined Treatments of Mirtazapine and Risperidone: Case Report of an Adolescent

Back to table of contents Previous article Next article LettersFull AccessDissociative Identity Disorder May Be Relieved by the Combined Treatments of Mirtazapine and Risperidone: Case Report of an AdolescentChen-Han Lai, M.D.Chen-Han LaiSearch for more papers by this author, M.D.Published Online:1 Apr 2012https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.neuropsych.11040083AboutSectionsPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail To the Editor: Dissociative identity disorder (DID) is characterized by the existence of two or more personalities that recurrently take control of behavior. Here, we present an adolescent patient with DID, who had improvement of symptoms after the combined treatment of mirtazapine and risperidone.“Miss G” is a 16-year-old adolescent girl with past emotional trauma associated with physical abuse in childhood and recent frustrations in her school and love-life. She visited my clinic, and her mother mentioned that she had said that, for the past 6 months, there were four personalities inside her mind, each with its own relatively enduring pattern of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about the environment and self. These personalities would provoke her odd behaviors, such as school-refusal; self-harm, such as cutting wrists at superficial depth; verbal aggression; physical aggression; talking to herself; dressing different when her personality changed; initial insomnia; anger outbursts; and mood swings. These odd behaviors have caused impairments in social and academic functioning. No history of substance abuse or medical illness was mentioned. Mild depression (Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression: 13) was also revealed. The scores of the Adolescent Dissociative Experience Scale (A-DES) were 167, with most items rated more than 5 points (at least moderately-severe).With the impression of DID, aggression risk, and deliberate self-harming behavior, we prescribed mirtazapine 30 mg and risperidone 2 mg. After the first week of treatment, her personality switch decreased, and less aggression or self-harm was noted (A-DES scores: 127). Mild sedation and somnolence side effects were mentioned, but without extrapyramidal side effects. Her mother assisted her in receiving the biological treatment and monitored whether she took these medications because of the possibility of poor medication adherence. She mentioned that her original personality could control her mind and behavior longer after the mirtazapine and risperidone treatment. The other three personalities became diminished after medication treatment. The A-DES scores also decreased from 167 to 45, with significant improvement after 1 month of treatment. The symptoms changed mostly in the dimensions of behavioral control, thought control, body self-awareness, personality-switch frequency and duration, and better ability to recall what she did while another personality manipulated her mind and behavior. Her symptoms maintained stationary (A-DES: 41) under mirtazapine and risperidone combined treatment for the next 6 months until the present, with mild body-weight gain, around 1 kg in these 7 months.Emotional trauma is usually associated with mesocortical and mesolimbic dopaminergic system dysfunction, which may alter midbrain defense response, a reaction associated with DID.1 Besides dopamine, the serotoninergic system, such as serotonin-transporter gene polymorphism, might also be associated with childhood emotional trauma or physical abuse.2 Serotonin-transporter short alleles also contribute to emotional sensitivity to stressors in the victims of childhood physical maltreatments.3 The combined treatment might cover the dopamine and serotonin mechanisms and provide the therapeutic effects in this patient.Dept. of Psychiatry Buddhist Tzu-Chi General Hospital, Taipei Branch Taipei, Taiwan Institute of Brain Science National Yang Ming University Taipei City, Taiwane-mail: [email protected]comReferences1 Corrigan FM, Fisher JJ, Nutt DJ: Autonomic dysregulation and the Window of Tolerance model of the effects of complex emotional trauma. 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“So Big”: The Development of Body Self‐Awareness in Toddlers

Early development of body self-awareness was examined in 57 children at 18, 22, or 26 months of age, using tasks designed to require objective representation of one's own body. All children made at least one body representation error, with approximately 2.5 errors per task on average. Errors declined with age. Children's performance on comparison tasks that required them to reason about the relative size of objects and about objects as obstacles, without considering their own bodies, was unrelated to performance on the body awareness tasks. Thus, the ability to represent and reflect on one's own body explicitly and objectively may be a unique dimension of early development, a distinct component of objective self-awareness that emerges in this age period.

Olfactory hallucinations in depression

Olfactory hallucinations are rarely mentioned as a symptom of depressive disorder. This paper presents a review of the literature including a conceptual clarification and epidemiological aspects with an emphasis on the significance of olfactory hallucinations for psychopathology, in particular with respect to sensory perception and body self-awareness. The close relation to the olfactory reference syndrome is pointed at. Olfactory hallucinations are considered important for the biological interpretation of affective disorders. In this regard disturbed olfactory perception can be understood as an example of disturbed brain function in the state of depression. Olfactory symptoms are shown to be elements connecting primary affective disorders with other neuropsychiatric diseases as well as with neuroanatomical and neurophysiological models. A primary role is accordingly attributed to the temporal lobe epilepsies in which olfactory hallucinations as well as affective disturbances occur. The need for further investigation in this field is pointed out.