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PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF WOMEN WITH SEXUAL INHIBITION (FRIGIDITY) IN SEX CLINICS

The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1976
Traditional psychiatric thought has equated the inability of a female to obtain an orgasm (particularly a vaginal orgasm during intercourse) with psychological maladjustment. The research literature generally does not support this position. The present paper describes the psychological characteristics of 44 frigid women who applied for treatment of ...
D J, Munjack, F R, Staples
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Religion's encouragement and inhibition of psychological maturity

Journal of Religion & Health, 1990
The secure feelings that religious faith instills can help strengthen people against the anxieties experienced in life. They can strengthen people against anxiety in a mature and immature way. When religion makes people feel secure by providing an image of God that magically removes anxiety, rather than that stimulates the strength to make people feel ...
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Modulation of attentional inhibition by norepinephrine and cortisol after psychological stress

International Journal of Psychophysiology, 2000
Two of the most salient physiological responses to stress are increased norepinephrine (NE) and cortisol (CORT) activities. However, it is unclear how these neurochemical events affect cognition, especially attention. We examined the effects of mild psychological stress on selective attention, as assessed by the negative priming (NP) paradigm. Salivary
P D, Skosnik, R T, Chatterton, T, Swisher, S, Park   +3 more
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Avoidance of Counseling: Psychological Factors That Inhibit Seeking Help

Journal of Counseling & Development, 2007
How do counselors reach out to individuals who are reluctant to seek counseling services? To answer this question, the authors examined the research on the psychological help‐seeking barriers from counseling, clinical and social psychology, as well as social work and psychiatry.
David L. Vogel, Stephen R. Wester, Lisa M. Larson   +2 more
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Psychological inhibition and CD4 T-cell levels in HIV-seropositive women

Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 2003
This cross-sectional study examined the hypothesis that the capacity for emotional expression is a critical moderator of the emotional support-health relationship.In a sample of 61 HIV-seropositive women without AIDS, coping interviews were conducted to assess HIV-specific emotional support and emotional expression and inhibition (percentage of ...
Naomi I, Eisenberger, Margaret E, Kemeny, Gail E, Wyatt   +2 more
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Psychological Factors Inhibit Family Members' Confidence to Initiate CPR

Prehospital Emergency Care, 2008
A minority of bystanders will initiate cardiopulmonary (CPR) when a family member collapses in the home. This study sought to better understand the psychological barriers to family-initiated CPR and to determine whether sociodemographic variables are influential.Twelve hundred and eight people were contacted via telephone and asked about their ...
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On inhibition/disinhibition in developmental psychopathology: Views from cognitive and personality psychology and a working inhibition taxonomy.

Psychological Bulletin, 2000
Disinhibition is a common focus in psychopathology research. However, use of inhibition models often is piecemeal, lacking an overarching taxonomy of inhibitory processes. The author organizes key concepts and models pertaining to different kinds of inhibitory control from the cognitive and temperament/personality literatures.
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Interference and Inhibition in Cognition and Behavior: Unifying Themes for Educational Psychology

Educational Psychology Review, 1999
In this article, we review modern work on interference and inhibition in cognition and behavior. We begin by briefly reviewing the historical and conceptual roots of this new body of work. Next we discuss five new theoretical frameworks that use the concepts of interference and inhibition to explain cognitive and behavioral phenomena.
Frank N. Dempster, Alice J. Corkill
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Effect of acute psychological stress on response inhibition: An event-related potential study

Behavioural Brain Research, 2017
This study aimed to investigate the effect of acute psychological stress on response inhibition and its electrophysiological correlates using a dual-task paradigm. Acute stress was induced by a primary task (mental arithmetic task), which consisted of a stress block and a control block.
Mingming, Qi, Heming, Gao, Guangyuan, Liu   +2 more
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Childhood emotional invalidation and adult psychological distress: the mediating role of emotional inhibition

Child Abuse & Neglect, 2003
To evaluate a model in which chronic emotional inhibition mediates the relationship between a history of childhood emotional invalidation or abuse and adult psychological distress.One hundred and twenty-seven participants completed a series of self-report questionnaires, and a subset of this group (n=88) completed an additional measure of current ...
Krause, Elizabeth D., Mendelson, Tamar, Lynch, Thomas R.   +2 more
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