Changes in the affective state and in the emotional attribution during estradiol fluctuations of the ovarian cycle in university students
Changes in the affective state and in the emotional attribution during estradiol fluctuations of the ovarian cycle in university students
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Abstract
The purpose of this research was to analyze if some type of relation existed between the fluctuations of estradiol of the ovarian cycle, two variables of the affectivity, the dysthymia and the euthymia, and the type of emotional attributions, positive, negative or neutral, realized to semantic and facial stimuli. The hormonal levels of 17-ß estradiol have measured up in saliva, across kits ELISA (Enzyme-Linked Immuno Sorbent Assay) in 64 women, aged 18-19 years. The subjects realized the Inventory of Depressive State/Characteristic (IDER) and two tests of emotional attribution, for verbal and facial stimuli, in two moments of the cycle, when the levels of estradiol were high and when these were lower. The studied women obtained significantly top punctuations in the items of eutimia state and in the number of positive attributions realized, with both facial and semantic stimuli, when they were during the more high beak of estradiol, that when the levels of estradiol were low. The results suggest that the estradiol might be one of the influential factors in the modulation and regulation of the positive affective state. This research seeks to give a new approach to strengthen psychological resilience and promote mental health.
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intensa. Anales de Psicología, 31(2), 716-724.
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Review, (17), 30391-30394.
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disorders? The potential role of sex hormones. Lancet Psychiatry, 4,73–82.
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Menstrual Cycles: Implications for Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder. Women’s
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predicting mortality. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 100, 53–60.
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(2010). Menstrual cycle and hormonal contraceptive use modulate human brain
structure. Brain Res. 12(1348), 55-62.
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ability across negative and positive emotions: The Perth Emotion Regulation
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Discrimination Across the Menstrual Cycle in Women with Premenstrual Dysphoric
Disorder (PMDD) and Controls. Journal of Affective Disorders, 104(1-3), 37–44.
Schiller, D. y Delgado, M.R. (2010). Overlapping neural systems mediating extinction, reversal
and regulation of fear. Trends Cogn. Sci. 14, 268–276.
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mediator between emotion regulation and medically unexplained symptoms. Journal of
Psychosomatic Research, 101,114-121.
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Cognitive Function. Vitam Horm. 107, 349-376.
Spielberger, C.D., Agudelo, D. y Buela-Casal, G. (2008). Inventario de Depresión Estado/Rasgo
(IDER). Madrid: TEA Ediciones.
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of depression. Revista Internacional de Psicología Clínica y de la Salud/International
Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, 3, 209-234. Recuperado de
http://www.redalyc.org/pdf/337/33730201.pdf
Spindler, H., Denollet, J., Kruse, C. y Pedersen, S.S. (2009). Positive affect and negative affect
correlate differently with distress and health-related quality of life in patients with
cardiac conditions: Validation of the Danish Global Mood Scale. Journal of
Psychosomatic Research, 67(1), 57-65.
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(2008). Progesterone selectively increases amygdala reactivity in women. Mol.
Psychiatry, VOL/NUM, 13325–13333.
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improved competitive ELISA based on a monoclonal antibody against
lipopolysaccharide for the detection of bovine brucellosis. BMC Veterinary Research,
11, 118.
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emotion regulation, and emotional symptoms of women with premenstrual dysphoric
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Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry. 2(82), 216-223.
Young, A., Perrett, D.I., Calder, A., Sprengelmeyer, R.H. y Ekman, P.(2002). Facial expressions
of emotion: Stimuli and Test (FEEST).
Zhang, Y. y Han, B. (2016). Positive affect and mortality risk in older adults: A meta-analysis.
Psych J. Jun, 5(2):125-138.