Possibility that negative psychological state is related to poor health condition

by Francisco Moreno

A new study suggests that it may be a sign that not only a sign that brings negative psychological state but also seriously affects health as well as a bad mood or sullen condition.

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In a study announced in November 2018, it was investigated how the negative psychological state in the day correlates with the body's natural immune response to injury and infection. Jennifer Graham England, who is the first author of the research and researcher of biological behavior studies, said, "In previous studies many nuances about how psychological changes and inflammation are related As it is said that, unlike the research of the questionnaire survey agent so far, in this research the answer about his thinking, feelings, actions, and even the environment to the subject called experience sampling method Investigation is being conducted using a method to make it. According to Mr. England, no one has examined how much the evaluation method and timing of evaluation affects the relationship between psychological change and inflammation so far.

According to England et al., Changes in the mental state caused by recollection become more susceptible to memory bias and become more susceptible to personality factors as time passes. Therefore, it is said that it is a better evaluation method to instantly evaluate emotional experience in real time in order to capture it more accurately.

by Edu Lauton

With this in mind, Mr. England and colleagues conducted a survey to evaluate the subjects' mood five times daily for 2 weeks for 220 subjects who participated in the ESCAPE project in the Bronx Ward in New York State It was.

In the survey, the subjects used smartphones, and they were asked five times a day whether they were positive influences (happiness, joy, pleasure etc.) or negative influences (tension / anxiety, anger / hostility, depression, frustration, etc.) I will evaluate that I felt something. In addition to self-evaluation on a daily basis, subjects also seem to have recalled each incident at the end of the experiment and reported a positive or negative evaluation.

In the survey we are doing blood sampling at the beginning and end of the experiment to measure inflammatory cytokine levels in the plasma of the subject. Inflammatory markers such as inflammatory cytokines are indicators of health condition and illness.

Analysis of the two week study period found that researchers discovered that positive or negative emotions are not related to inflammatory cytokines at all. However, analyzing only the last week of the survey also reveals that negative emotions are associated with inflammatory cytokines, due to "temporal proximity" with blood collected after the survey.

About this, Mr. England said, "The instantaneous negative emotions recorded in the first week (negative emotions reported in everyday records) were not associated with any biomarkers, but 2 The instantaneous negative emotions recorded from the weeks are significantly related to the high level of cytokine combined measurements while controlling age, gender, BMI, education, and health status. " Mr. England calls his research "the first analysis showing a significant association between instantaneous negative emotions in daily life and peripheral inflammation that will be assessed subsequently."

by Ethan Haddox

In other words, although there are still many mysteries between the change in emotion and the influence on the body, there are still many mysteries between inflammatory markers showing everyday negative emotions and bad health conditions, That is related, Mr. England says.

England et al. Research team is under investigation to more accurately measure the relationship between negative emotions and inflammatory cytokines. However, it is pointed out that the latest research may be an important discovery in future genres of the genre.