he literature about couple relationship and health showed that negative dimensions of marital functioning affect health indirectly through depression and health habits and directly through cardiovascular, immune, neurosensory, endocrine, and other physiological mechanisms. The aim ofthe present multicenter study is to evaluate the relationship between the quality of the couple relationship and the course of myocardial infarction in the male partner. 30 couples were recruited from the Cardiology Department of the San Giovanni Hospital of Rome after about a month from the myocardial infarction of the male partner. Both partners filled out the Experiences in Close Relationships Revised Form, the Dyadic Adjustment Scale, the 20-Item Toronto Alexithymia Scale, the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire and the Couple Relationship Inventory. Medical variables on the course and progression of the myocardial infarction were collected after 6 months from the first examination. Regarding males, results showed significant correlations between participants’ total alexithymia levels and their systolic blood pressure levels (r=.40; p=.03) and between participants’ Attachment Anxiety and the frequency of their physical exercise in the week (r=.45; p=.01). Regarding the relationships between characteristics of the female partners and the medical variables of their partner, results showed significant correlations between: the women’s total alexithymia levels and the obesity of their partner (r=.51; p=.00); the women’s Difficulties in Identifying Feelings and their partner’s low-density lipoprotein level (r=.42; p=.02); the women’s attachment Anxiety and their partner’s alcohol consumption in the week (r=.38; p=.04). Data contribute to confirm the effects of couple relationship on health, and specifically the relationships between psychological characteristics of one partner and the cardiovascular health of the other partner after a myocardial infarction.

CONSTRUCTION AND PRELIMINARY VALIDATION OF A PICTURE TASK FOR THE EVALUATION OF EMOTIONAL COMPETENCE IN CHILDREN FROM 4 TO 8 YEARS BASED ON THE ALEXITHYMIA THEORY / DI TRANI, Michela; Solano, Luigi; Barbieri, F.; Greenman, PAUL SAMUEL. - In: MEDITERRANEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY. - ISSN 2282-1619. - STAMPA. - 4/2A:(2016), pp. 74-75. (Intervento presentato al convegno XVIII Congresso Nazionale dell’Associazione Italiana di Psicologia, Sezione Clinica e Dinamica tenutosi a Roma nel 16-18 settembre 2016) [10.6092/2282-1619/2016.4.1287].

CONSTRUCTION AND PRELIMINARY VALIDATION OF A PICTURE TASK FOR THE EVALUATION OF EMOTIONAL COMPETENCE IN CHILDREN FROM 4 TO 8 YEARS BASED ON THE ALEXITHYMIA THEORY

DI TRANI, MICHELA;SOLANO, Luigi;GREENMAN, PAUL SAMUEL
2016

Abstract

he literature about couple relationship and health showed that negative dimensions of marital functioning affect health indirectly through depression and health habits and directly through cardiovascular, immune, neurosensory, endocrine, and other physiological mechanisms. The aim ofthe present multicenter study is to evaluate the relationship between the quality of the couple relationship and the course of myocardial infarction in the male partner. 30 couples were recruited from the Cardiology Department of the San Giovanni Hospital of Rome after about a month from the myocardial infarction of the male partner. Both partners filled out the Experiences in Close Relationships Revised Form, the Dyadic Adjustment Scale, the 20-Item Toronto Alexithymia Scale, the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire and the Couple Relationship Inventory. Medical variables on the course and progression of the myocardial infarction were collected after 6 months from the first examination. Regarding males, results showed significant correlations between participants’ total alexithymia levels and their systolic blood pressure levels (r=.40; p=.03) and between participants’ Attachment Anxiety and the frequency of their physical exercise in the week (r=.45; p=.01). Regarding the relationships between characteristics of the female partners and the medical variables of their partner, results showed significant correlations between: the women’s total alexithymia levels and the obesity of their partner (r=.51; p=.00); the women’s Difficulties in Identifying Feelings and their partner’s low-density lipoprotein level (r=.42; p=.02); the women’s attachment Anxiety and their partner’s alcohol consumption in the week (r=.38; p=.04). Data contribute to confirm the effects of couple relationship on health, and specifically the relationships between psychological characteristics of one partner and the cardiovascular health of the other partner after a myocardial infarction.
2016
XVIII Congresso Nazionale dell’Associazione Italiana di Psicologia, Sezione Clinica e Dinamica
04 Pubblicazione in atti di convegno::04d Abstract in atti di convegno
CONSTRUCTION AND PRELIMINARY VALIDATION OF A PICTURE TASK FOR THE EVALUATION OF EMOTIONAL COMPETENCE IN CHILDREN FROM 4 TO 8 YEARS BASED ON THE ALEXITHYMIA THEORY / DI TRANI, Michela; Solano, Luigi; Barbieri, F.; Greenman, PAUL SAMUEL. - In: MEDITERRANEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY. - ISSN 2282-1619. - STAMPA. - 4/2A:(2016), pp. 74-75. (Intervento presentato al convegno XVIII Congresso Nazionale dell’Associazione Italiana di Psicologia, Sezione Clinica e Dinamica tenutosi a Roma nel 16-18 settembre 2016) [10.6092/2282-1619/2016.4.1287].
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