Alexithymia and the anxiolytic effect of endurance running: A painful process.

述情障碍和耐力跑的抗焦虑作用：一个痛苦的过程。

• 批准号: 2426507
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Bangor University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2020 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2426507
• 关键词: Alexithymia; anxiolytic; effect; endurance; running

Alexithymia has been strongly linked with anxiety disorders due to the associated emotional dysfunction causing intense anxiety that individuals cannot regulate. This difficulty in regulating anxiety can lead to a dependence on extreme emotion regulation strategies, such as high-risk activities or self-harm. The anxiolytic effect of exercise is well-documented and has been suggested to have an increased emotion regulation function for alexithymic individuals. Extreme endurance running shares characteristics with self-harm in that there is an inherent aspect of self-induced pain. Woodman and Welch (2020) recently provided initial support for the emotion regulation function of endurance running, and the underlying role of pain, for individuals high in alexithymia.In this project, we aim to further the understanding of the anxiolytic effect of endurance running on alexithymic individuals and the role of pain within this relationship. We also aim to investigate the similarities between pain induced by self-harm and pain in endurance running, and the respective emotion regulation functions.We will achieve these aims using a both quantitative and qualitative methodologies over the course of several studies. We will replicate the quasi-experimental repeated measures design from the Woodman and Welch (2020) study with limitations addressed to further establish the relationship between anxiety reduction and pain during endurance running for alexithymic individuals. We will then use a phenomenological methodology to understand alexithymic individuals' experiences of the anxiolytic effect of endurance running and their perceptions of the role of pain. Further to this, we will examine alexithymic individuals' experiences of anxiety reduction via self-harm. Common themes and differences may then be drawn between the two forms of emotion regulation to provide an in-depth understanding of the processes that might underlie alexithymic individuals' relationships with pain and their underlying motives for experiencing pain as part of an emotion regulation strategy.This project will provide a valuable contribution to the understanding of emotion regulation in populations at risk of turning to maladaptive coping strategies, such as self-harm, to regulate their emotions. If running can provide a low-risk and accessible emotion regulation strategy for alexithymic individuals, it may help reduce the prevalence of high-risk strategies.

述情障碍与焦虑症密切相关，因为相关的情绪功能障碍会导致个体无法调节的强烈焦虑。这种调节焦虑的困难可能导致对极端情绪调节策略的依赖，例如高风险活动或自我伤害。运动的抗焦虑作用是有据可查的，并已被建议有一个增加的情绪调节功能的述情障碍的个人。极限耐力跑与自我伤害有着共同的特征，即自我诱发疼痛的内在方面。Woodman and Welch（2020）最近为耐力跑的情绪调节功能以及疼痛的潜在作用提供了初步支持，在这个项目中，我们的目标是进一步了解耐力跑对述情障碍个体的抗焦虑作用以及疼痛在这种关系中的作用。本研究还旨在探讨自我伤害引起的疼痛与耐力跑疼痛之间的相似性，以及各自的情绪调节功能。我们将在几项研究中使用定量和定性方法来实现这些目标。我们将复制Woodman和Welch（2020）研究中的准实验重复测量设计，并解决了进一步确定述情障碍个体耐力跑期间焦虑减少与疼痛之间关系的局限性。然后，我们将使用现象学的方法来了解述情障碍个体的耐力跑的抗焦虑作用的经验和他们对疼痛的作用的看法。除此之外，我们还将研究述情障碍个体通过自我伤害减少焦虑的经历。这两种形式的情绪调节之间的共同主题和差异，从而提供了一个深入的理解的过程，可能是基础的述情障碍个体的关系与疼痛和他们的潜在动机，体验疼痛作为情绪调节策略的一部分。这个项目将提供一个有价值的贡献，了解情绪调节的风险人群转向适应不良的应对策略，比如自残来调节他们的情绪如果跑步可以为述情障碍者提供一种低风险和可获得的情绪调节策略，那么它可能有助于减少高风险策略的流行。