Emotional Fluctuations Research Articles

Study on the Correlation between User Emotional Benefits and their Perception of Campus Outdoor Spaces

There exists a certain correlation between spatial environments and emotional fluctuations, and emphasizing research on campus outdoor spaces holds significant importance in promoting students' emotional well-being. Based on relevant theoretical foundations, this study aims to explore the relationship between students and other users' perception of campus outdoor spaces and their emotional characteristics. The survey focuses on students and other campus users at Yunnan University of Finance and Economics. Firstly, it investigates their perspectives on outdoor space perception and its influence on emotions. Secondly, through questionnaires, the study gathers information about the subjects and their emotions. Building upon this data, the emotional characteristics of campus users in outdoor spaces are analyzed from multiple aspects. Finally, using the SPSS method, the study explores the correlation and influencing patterns between campus outdoor space perception and users' emotions, while proposing campus outdoor space planning and design strategies to enhance individual emotional benefits. This research provides a scientific basis for improving campus outdoor environments and enhancing students' emotional well-being.

Possible involvement of microglial P2RY12 and peripheral IL-10 in postpartum depression.

Postpartum depression (PPD) is another type of depression, including emotional fluctuation, fatigue, and anxiety. Based on the specific event like giving birth, it can be speculated that PPD might have its specific mechanism. Here, we confirmed that dexamethasone (DEX) administration during pregnancy (gestational days 16-18) induced depressive- and anxiety-like behaviors in dam (DEX-dam) after weaning period (3 weeks). DEX-dam showed anxiety-like behaviors in open-field test (OFT) and light-dark test (LD). In addition, DEX-dam exhibited depressive-like behaviors with the increased immobility time in forced swimming test (TST). Molecular analysis confirmed that microglia, rather than neurons, astrocytes, and oligodendrocytes, are involved in anxiety-/depressive-like behaviors. Notably, P2ry12, homeostatic gene, and purinoceptor, along with hyper-ramified form, were reduced in the hippocampus of DEX-dam. In addition, we found that IL-10 mRNA was reduced in lymph nodes without alteration of pro-inflammatory cytokines, such as TNF-α, IL-1β, and IL-6. Interestingly, anxiety-/depressive-like behaviors of DEX-dam were restored with the normalization of P2ry12 and IL-10 after 10 weeks postpartum without antidepressants. Our results propose that stress hormone elevation during pregnancy might be associated with PPD via microglial P2RY12 and peripheral IL-10.

Deep emotion change detection via facial expression analysis

Facial expressions are one of the most essential channels to communicate a person’s emotional state. In social interaction, the capability to accurately read subtle changes in facial expressions, which reveal emotional fluctuations, is critical for 1) comprehending others’ emotions in context and background situations, 2) identifying responsiveness to others’ emotions, and 3) developing social skills in human–computer interaction. In this paper, we first introduce automatic emotion change detection via facial expression that discovers timings or temporal locations in a video where facial expression significantly changes. We propose a weakly-supervised deep emotion change detection framework that does not require facial expression videos with expensive temporal annotations and instead learns static images for training. Incorporating these ideas, we performed extensive experiments to demonstrate fundamental insights into emotion change detection and the efficacy of our framework using three video datasets, i.e., CASME II, MMI, and our YoutubeECD. Furthermore, we modified our framework for temporal spotting, which is the most similar task to emotion change detection, and showed comparable results with state-of-the-art methods on CAS(ME)2, proving justification for the problem. Even though we only employed the AffectNet to train our framework rather than the CASME II, MMI, YoutubeECD, and CAS(ME)2, experimental results demonstrate its exceptional generalization capability in cross-dataset environments.

The mediating roles of psychological resilience and frustration tolerance in the relationship between coping styles and mood states of high-level basketball referees.

In order to promote the development of high-quality professional basketball referees in China, we explored the relationship between their coping styles and mood states during the game and assessed the contributions of psychological resilience and frustration tolerance to this relationship. A total of 364 national and international male and female basketball referees were recruited and surveyed via the online questionnaire platform "Questionnaire Star". All participants signed an informed consent form and completed the questionnaire. Common method bias test and Pearson correlation tests were used to analyze the study indicators, and the theoretical model for this study was validated using Process plug-in developed by Hayes. The results of the study showed that the coping style of the referees significantly predicted their psychological resilience, frustration tolerance, and mood state. Coping style enhanced psychological resilience (β = -0.30) and frustration tolerance (β = 0.38) and improved the mood states (β = 0.33) of the referees. In addition, coping style directly predicted mood state but also indirectly predict mood state through the intermediary variables of psychological resilience (β = 0.14) and frustration tolerance (β = 0.11), and the mediating effects accounted for 24.20 and 18.90% of the total effect, with psychological resilience playing a greater role than frustration tolerance. (β: standardized regression coefficient). These findings suggest that when training high-level basketball referees, increasing the psychological indicators related to the coping styles and psychological resilience of high-level basketball referees can avoid their large emotional fluctuations and improve their accuracy in judging when facing unexpected events on the court.

Technology-based solutions for behavior monitoring: lessons learned

IntroductionChildren’s behavior is indicative of adaptation to early-age development. Adaptive difficulties linked to behavioral difficulties are frequent among school-aged children having a multi-level impact. Five key approaches have been used therapeutically while systematic behavior monitoring has been used to evaluate the efficacy of different interventions. The inherent barriers of traditional monitoring tools have led to the need to design and implement new approaches.MethodsFour case study series (S1–S4) focused on vulnerable populations are described. Eight participants with different medical backgrounds underwent an intervention, either cognitive training (BrainHQ) (seven out of eight) or operant conditioning strategies. Targeted behaviors were monitored in six out of eight participants using the WHAAM application which could also measure the effectiveness of the intervention applied, while emotional fluctuations were evaluated in two out of eight participants using AffectLecture. Moreover, a 5th pilot study (S5) is included focusing on the early detection and management of ADHD using a serious game-based platform.ResultsIn S1, monitoring highlighted that BrainHQ training resulted in positive changes in all but one of the behaviors in Case 1. Studies that exploited the AffectLecture application indicated that emotional state was improved after training, and it was positively correlated with performance in cognitive exercises. The performance in cognitive training was positively correlated with the emotional state before training in S2 but not in S3. A positive correlation between the change in emotional state and performance was mentioned only in S3. Educational and social benefits as well as a positive correlation between the performance and the length of training were reported in both studies. Operant conditioning strategies in S4 resulted in positive behavioral effects in most participants. Preliminary analysis of S5 indicated that the platform has a considerable capacity to discriminate users based on their in-game patterns as ADHD or non-ADHD.DiscussionThe mixture of studies presented in this article incorporates different technological solutions for monitoring or intervening in developmental disorders and behavioral difficulties. Despite the inherent inhomogeneity of such an endeavor, they all highlight the positive prospects of using technology to enhance the educational arsenal of facing behavioral and learning difficulties.

Multimodal Emotion Recognition and Fluctuation: A Study on Sentiment Analysis of Online Public Opinion

Emotion is an important way for individuals to express their views on the Internet and an important variable that shapes public opinion. Considering the multimodality of data, such as text, picture and video, and the subtlety of emotional expression, a multimodal sentiment analysis model that addresses content involving difference senses, such as sight, hearing and touch at the same time is very necessary. This study outlines the basic steps, classification strategies and research methods of sentimental analysis and acknowledges the differences between sentimental analyses on text, picture and video. As multimodal sentiment recognition is still in its initial stage, there’s still room for improvement in cross-disciplinary research on multimodal data of text, picture, audio, video in terms of weighted scoring, complex emotion and intensity recognition. It’s concluded that future studies should focus on the intensity of different emotions, multimodal data fusion and how weighted scoring influences an emotion recognition model and explore application possibilities.

Telenursing and Telemonitoring During and Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic

Background The presenter will be discussing home monitoring–based telenursing for people with chronic conditions. This technology has been implemented in home-care individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, type 2 diabetes, congestive heart failure, lung cancer, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, who are treated at home, including during the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic, which began in late 2019, has limited our everyday activities and opportunities to connect with people. Older adults with chronic conditions are most especially affected. While telenursing practice is not so familiar in the Japanese context, the Japan Academy of Home Care (2021) first defined telenursing as “information and communication technologies involving telecommunication provided by nurses.” Furthermore, we are providing seminars for the nurses and expanding their capacity on how to provide efficient telenursing support for people receiving home care. Objective This study aims to present effective telenursing practice examples, as well as the challenges surrounding the use of technology in care for older adults with chronic conditions during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods A fully longitudinal mixed methods design was used to evaluate the physical and emotional fluctuations of people from qualitative and quantitative strands, and we integrated the results and meta-inferences. Results The patients showed a continuous change over time in terms of their physical and psychological status. Living with symptoms, the patients were constantly reminded of the reality of their disease and the activity limitations the pandemic brought. At times, they were able to find hope for the future by actively controlling and managing their disease, maintaining their health and physical function, and realizing that they could live a normal life. On the other hand, they experienced a loss of activity, a decline in physical function, and anxiety about the future, brought about by the pandemic. Thus, people who receive telenursing are on a dynamic disease trajectory that vacillates between hope and despair, and telenursing can help them. Conclusions Performing telemonitoring and telerehabilitation of older adults throughout the pandemic, as well as adapting to their physical and emotional fluctuations, will improve their quality of life. Conflicts of Interest None declared.

The influence of communication language on purchase intention in consumer contexts: the mediating effects of presence and arousal

AbstractPanoramic visual, tactile, and auditory interactions have been widely used to create scene-based immersive experiences to enhance consumer experience and stimulate emotional responses, thereby increasing purchase intentions. Guided by scene marketing theory and the archetypal theory of mind-flow experience, this article introduces the concepts of presence and emotional arousal to examine how communication language causes emotional fluctuations in potential consumers, leading to purchase intentions. Therefore, from the interaction experience of “external perception - scene language” and “internal sensing - communication language”, the dual chain of mediation of presence perception and emotional arousal is selected to construct a consumer. The results reveal that the pathway of consumers’ purchase intentions is not always the same in the context of consumer language perception. In addition, the results demonstrate that the vividness and richness of the presentation of scene language in a consumer language perception context have positively influenced the relationship between communication language and presence perception. Compared to the direct effect on purchase intention, communication language tends to have an indirect positive effect on consumers’ purchase intention through the single mediation of presence perception and the chain mediation of emotional arousal. The increasing prevalence of interactive linguistic experiences, where emotional arousal has become an essential trigger for consumers’ purchase intentions, is an important representation of the specificity and complexity of consumer language elements. Thus, this research provides crucial theoretical guidance for the design of immersive experiential marketing and linguistic scenarios.

Trajectories of Psychopathic Traits, Anxiety, and Violence Exposure Differentially Predict Antisociality in Legal System-Involved Youth.

Psychopathic traits are associated with several forms of antisociality, including criminal offending, legal system involvement, and substance use. Some research suggests that primary (high psychopathic traits, low negative emotions) versus secondary (high psychopathic traits, high negative emotions and/or negative experiences and environments) variants confer different levels of risk for antisociality. However, research has not examined trajectories of co-occurring fluctuations in psychopathic traits, negative emotions, and negative experiences and environments or how trajectory membership relates to antisociality. We implemented group-based multi-trajectory modeling in a sample of 809 justice-involved male (n = 681) and female (n = 128) youth from the Pathways to Desistance Study to address these gaps. We identified four trajectories of co-occurring change in psychopathic traits, anxiety, and violence exposure spanning three years: Low (low levels of each factor); Moderate Psychopathic Traits, High Negative Emotions and Experiences (moderate-decreasing psychopathic traits and high-decreasing anxiety/violence exposure); Potential Primary Psychopathic Traits (elevated-decreasing psychopathic traits, moderate-decreasing anxiety, moderate-stable violence exposure); and High/Secondary Psychopathic Traits (high-stable psychopathic traits, elevated-stable anxiety, high-decreasing violence exposure). Compared to the Low trajectory, all trajectories predicted greater violent crime and substance use three and four years later. Additionally, compared to the Low trajectory, the Potential Primary Psychopathic Traits trajectory predicted more nonviolent offending three years later. Finally, the High/Secondary Psychopathic Traits trajectory showed the most persistent antisociality, predicting more nonviolent crime, higher substance dependence symptoms, and higher likelihood of arrest three and four years later. Youth with co-occurring high psychopathic traits, anxiety, and violence exposure appear most at risk for severe antisociality.

The impact of being Black while living with a chronic condition: Inpatient perspectives.

The impact of being Black while living with a chronic condition: Inpatient perspectives.

A Cognitive-Emotional Model From Mobile Short-Form Video Addiction to Intermittent Discontinuance: The Moderating Role of Neutralization

Discontinuance is considered very effective in the treatment of IT addiction. However, prior literature on the mechanism from IT addiction to discontinuance has reached inconsistent conclusions. Also, scholars cannot explain why some individuals do not make any changes after becoming addicted, even when they realize that their behavior is not in line with the norms. To fill the gaps, our research developed a cognitive-emotional model, with neutralization as a moderator, to understand the internal mechanism from mobile short-form video addiction to intermittent discontinuance. Based on the online survey of 493 Chinese mobile short-form video users, this study used partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) to empirically verify our model and hypothesis. The results show that mobile short-form video addiction positively affects cognitive dissonance and emotional fluctuation. And cognitive dissonance and emotional fluctuation are found to have a positive effect on intermittent discontinuance through attitudinal ambivalence. Furthermore, neutralization negatively moderates the relationship between cognitive dissonance and attitudinal ambivalence, emotional fluctuation and attitudinal ambivalence. Theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed.

How virtual reality moderates daily negative mood spillover among hotel frontline employees: A within-person field experiment

This study explores how virtual reality (VR) interventions mitigate daily negative mood spillover among hotel frontline employees through a daily dairy study. A within-subject field experiment was conducted to collect data from 87 hotel employees over ten consecutive workdays (846 daily responses). The multilevel analysis supports daily negative mood spillover by revealing positive relationships between negative moods before work and midday negative moods, and between midday negative moods and turnover intentions. Exposure to virtual natural scenes alleviates these daily positive relationships. Employees with high (vs. low) levels of trait mindfulness are less likely to be influenced by their negative moods before work when exposed to the VR intervention. This study advances our knowledge by integrating spillover theory, stress recovery theory, and mindfulness through a multilevel framework of employees’ daily emotional fluctuations moderated by VR interventions. The study findings provide hotel professionals with meaningful information regarding workplace stress management.

The effect of foreground and background of soundscape sequence on emotion in urban open spaces

This paper discusses the influence of the soundscape sequence of different urban open spaces on emotion. Thirty participants with normal hearing were selected to listen to forty-two different acoustic sequences and report their emotional changes during the process. The data were analysed in four stages, and the results are as follows: First, emotional response highly correlates with background type. Only when the foreground is negative does it relate to the foreground type. Second, the positive foreground in the early part of a sequence, or the neutral (or negative) foreground in the later part of a sequence, induces a better emotional experience. Third, in an acoustic sequence, emotion changes along with a change in the foreground. The appearance of the foreground triggers emotional fluctuations, and the end of the foreground is followed by emotional recovery. Finally, combining foregrounds can aid in regulating negative emotions. This effect is related to the position of the positive foreground and background type. We offer suggestions on the design of urban soundscape from the perspective of emotion based on the findings.

Recognition of Emotion by Brain Connectivity and Eye Movement.

Simultaneous activation of brain regions (i.e., brain connection features) is an essential mechanism of brain activity in emotion recognition of visual content. The occipital cortex of the brain is involved in visual processing, but the frontal lobe processes cranial nerve signals to control higher emotions. However, recognition of emotion in visual content merits the analysis of eye movement features, because the pupils, iris, and other eye structures are connected to the nerves of the brain. We hypothesized that when viewing video content, the activation features of brain connections are significantly related to eye movement characteristics. We investigated the relationship between brain connectivity (strength and directionality) and eye movement features (left and right pupils, saccades, and fixations) when 47 participants viewed an emotion-eliciting video on a two-dimensional emotion model (valence and arousal). We found that the connectivity eigenvalues of the long-distance prefrontal lobe, temporal lobe, parietal lobe, and center are related to cognitive activity involving high valance. In addition, saccade movement was correlated with long-distance occipital-frontal connectivity. Finally, short-distance connectivity results showed emotional fluctuations caused by unconscious stimulation.

Colour Preference and Healing in Digital Roaming Landscape: A Case Study of Mental Subhealth Populations.

From the perspective of emotional preference, studies have been conducted about landscape healing for subhealth people in the National High-Tech Zone (the study area). Combined with a preliminary practice investigation, Unity 2019 was used to make a digital roaming landscape, and 91 subjects with a history of mental subhealth diseases were randomly invited to participate in the immersive experimentation of the Human–Machine Environment Synchronisation (ErgoLAB) platform. After the experiment, the subjects were invited to fill in a Likert scale as the control group. The interest preference, emotion fluctuation, and healing effect of landscape colour were verified. The results show that: (1) The variation trend of interest reflected the concentration of interest in landscape, and the order of degree of interest, ranging from high to low, went Green > Yellow > Blue > Red > Orange > Purple > Cyan. (2) The subjects’ interest in landscape colour was correlated with the arousal of positive emotions. The correlation between interest in landscape colour and positive emotions, from high to low, went Blue > Green > Yellow, while the correlation between red, cyan, orange, and purple was not significant. (3) The mean skin conductance (SC) fluctuation variance of subjects was 5.594%, which confirmed that the healing effect of digital roaming landscape scenes was significant under the state of low arousal. According to the Likert scale data, subjects’ scores of the healing effect of landscapes, from high to low, went as follows: Green > Yellow > Red > Blue > Cyan > Orange > Purple. The results provide a new method for demonstrating the logical relationship between the digital landscape interest experience–emotional awakening–healing effect and providing a theoretical method and construction scheme for landscape colour configuration in the implementation of landscape healing projects.

A survey report on College Students' emotional regulation of social hot events Based on the questionnaire survey of college students in Wuhan

In recent years, with the rapid development of Internet technology, the timeliness of social hot events has leaped. The network provides a good platform for college students to play their right of speech. Unlimited enthusiasm and limited rationality lead to great emotional fluctuations of college students, which brings a series of adverse effects. To understand the network emotion expression tendency of college students, establish a flexible guidance mechanism on the basis of affirming the enthusiasm of College Students' emotional reaction, strengthen network management, gradually improve college students' self emotion regulation ability, and prevent the risk of group emotion.

Deconstruction of Immersive Animation Image Interaction Design under Virtual Reality Technology

With the increasing pressure of social life, people generally have different degrees of psychological problems, which brings serious troubles to people’s life and work. As one of the main forms of art, animation is a good medicine for breaking fantasy and returning to reality. Animation is one of the ways of art therapy, and animation art design is the soul of animation therapy. However, the art design of traditional animation cannot bring a strong sense of resonance and cannot arouse people’s inner emotions. Virtual reality can bring users an immersive experience, so it can really immerse the audience and release psychological pressure. The article firstly reoptimizes animation modeling technology and then combines it with art design, comprehensively uses art design and interactive technology to generate virtual space, and finally puts forward the concept of animation art design based on virtual reality technology. It aims to construct virtual animation from animation art design to help patients relieve psychological barriers. After repeated comparison experiments, it can be found that in the process of watching interactive animations on the virtual reality platform, if the overall style of the animation is more comfortable and warm, the user’s psychological perception will reach 78%, and the emotional fluctuation range will be less than 10%. When the animation style is relatively dark and depressing, the user’s psychological perception is only 45%, and the audience is very likely to think of a bad life experience, and the possibility of causing psychological disorders is 69.1%. This shows that the warm and comfortable animation art design can smooth people’s emotional fluctuations and relieve psychological obstacles.

Sexual Mindfulness

ABSTRACT Introduction What is Mindfulness, and how does it relate to sexuality in our contemporary socio-cultural, political, and economic context?This research paper explores how ancient and contemporary mindfulness and embodiment lineages can be proactively and therapeutically engaged to facilitate holistic sexual health. Acculturation within societal scripts and socio-political driven forces are creating disembodiment, shame, and stigma. The associated tensions and traumas held in our bodies are manifesting a significant range of symptoms and pathologies. Masters & Johnson's "sensate focus" studies have re-emerged through the work of Weiner & Avery-Clark. The parallel research of Brotto and colleagues in mindfulness techniques, has clinically proven to decrease sexual dysfunction while concurrently increasing both self-awareness and erotic pleasure. Objective 1. Distinguish the aspects of Mindfulness in Eastern Philosophy that inform contemporary Western clinical practices;2. Recognize at least 5 sexual dysfunctions that can be treated with Mindfulness practices; and3. Employ 3 somatic awareness techniques to teach clinical patients. Methods Objective qualitative analysis, unbiased constructive critique, and practical utilization of techniques to enhance situational engagement, genuine desire mapping, pleasure options for request and/or offer, and somatic practice found successful in a myriad of clinical and practical applications. Results Recent clinically tested scientific research demonstrates that Mindfulness has vast application in the field of human sexuality. The current research is founded upon centuries of Eastern yogic wisdom that focus self-regulation. It has been tested in both military stress response and medical sexual dysfunction case studies for decades. It is currently being tested in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade socio-emotional learning curriculum and has applicability in future comprehensive sex education curriculum. The import of Sexual Mindfulness will be shown to enhance one's professional, personal, and even sensual / sexual life on a daily basis; such as focusing one's own mind for higher productivity and joy, successfully navigating interpersonal interactions, positive effects of neurotransmitters on sexual functioning in the central nervous system, common sexual dysfunction symptom alleviation, plus enhanced sexual performance and sensation. Conclusions Due to bio-individuality and the transcendental nature of emotional fluctuations; there is limitless potential to these explorations. It is possible to explore one's own body, or the body of another each day for a lifetime, and for each day to be remarkably unique. Hopefully this practice will inspired you for solo and/or partnered exploring to discover uncharted pleasure in each unfolding moment. Remember compassion, compersion, humor and Proustian patience. Mindfully enjoy each flick of your hair, brushing of skin upon skin, the rapture in gazing upon yourself or a lover, one button, and then two, falling off of the bed, giggles, talking about your feelings, and more.By unpacking our cultural baggage to better understand where society went awry and stop perpetuating potential harms; we can blaze a path toward holistic health. Hopefully individuals, lovers, friends, family, clients, and colleagues can actively shift the often negative effects of many socio-cultural, political, and economic factors abounding today. If we can minimize harm and create embodied sexual healing, we might impassion future generations.The Sexual Mindfulness techniques presented can be easily practiced by the individual participant or taught to others. Disclosure No

Exploring dating as an occupation for young heterosexual women in Ireland

Purpose Dating is a meaningful occupation for many single people. The occupation of dating has transformed considerably in Ireland due to recent changes in Irish culture and the advent of online dating technology. The purpose of this study was to explore the complexities and intricacies of dating in an Irish context. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative research approach was used and data were collected using semi-structured interviews with ten heterosexual women (age 24‐34) living in urban areas of Ireland. Data were analysed using inductive thematic analysis (Braun and Clarke, 2006). Findings Dating did not fully resonate with their experience, but they did not have an alternative term. The form of dating was influenced by cultural, temporal, physical and virtual contexts. Beliefs about dating, fluctuating emotions and feelings of mortification because of the stigma of online dating created meaning for participants and influenced their use of strategies to improve resilience. While dating was not a preferred occupation for participants because of its arduous nature and fluctuations in emotion, it was seen as essential to fulfil the function of finding a romantic partner or partner in occupation. Connections between participant experiences and occupational science are discussed to address the lexicon of dating and the form, function and meaning of dating. Originality/value This study contributes to occupational science knowledge by revealing the occupational understandings of dating as an emerging and dynamic occupation in a rapidly changing culture of Ireland.

STUDY ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REARING STYLE, INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION ABILITY AND EMOTION REGULATION OF JUNIOR MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS WITH HEARING IMPAIRMENT

STUDY ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REARING STYLE, INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION ABILITY AND EMOTION REGULATION OF JUNIOR MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS WITH HEARING IMPAIRMENT