Emotional Control

Modern interactive means combined with new digital media processing and representation technologies can provide a robust framework for enhancing user experience in multimedia entertainment systems and audiovisual artistic installations with non-traditional interaction/feedback paths based on user affective state. In this work, the? Elevator? interactive audiovisual platform prototype is presented, which aims to provide a framework for signalling and expressing human behaviour related to emotions (such as anger) and ...

Objective: Because of the unwanted effects of the patient’s migraine headaches and the role of excitement and stress in the development and exacerbation of headaches, migraine headaches are psychosomatic disorders that affect the patients’ psychological lives. The present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT) for improving emotional control and reducing the severity of pain in patients with migraines.
Methods: A total of 30 patients with migraines referred to Isfahan Al-Zahra Hospital, Isfahan City, Iran, were selected and randomly divided into experimental and control groups. The research instruments included the Emotion Control Questionnaire (ECQ), von Korff’s questionnaire for grading the severity of chronic pain, and the Migraine Disability Assessment (MIDAS) questionnaire. The experimental group received eight 90-min sessions of CFT, and both groups took the post-test after finishing the training sessions. Analysis of the data involved both descriptive and inferential statistics, including mean, standard deviation, Multivariate Analysis of Covariance (MANCOVA), and Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA).
Results: The results showed that the training based on CFT had a significant effect on improving emotional control and its subscales (F=21.81; P<0.01), as well as reducing pain severity in the patients (F=17.21; P<0.01).
Conclusion: Therefore, in treating migraine patients, CFT can be a useful supplementary approach along with medications.

A crosslinguistic approach to the phraseology of the emotions in Spanish and English Ruth Breeze | University of Navarra (Spain) Manuel Casado-Velarde | University of Navarra (Spain) Cross-linguistic studies of phraseology enable us to draw increasingly accurate maps of the specific ways different languages express emotions. This chapter focuses on the phraseology used to express emotions in Spanish, taking English as its point of comparison. We situate the topic within the broad perspective of the presence, absence and control of the emotions, centering exclusively on expressions consisting of non-emotional lexis. First, we investigate phrases indicating presence and absence of emotions in Spanish and English. Second, we examine emotional control and lack of control, finding different patterns in the use of the underlying container metaphor. Finally, we explore linguistic affordances for expressing uncomfortable but vague emotions. We conclude with some comparisons between Spanish and English phraseology.

Introduction: Infertility is one of the bitter experiences in life and causes many psychological
problems, such as low control over emotions in infertile couples. However, Emotionally
Focused Couples Therapy (EFCT) is one of the interventions that has attracted the attention
of many researchers in recent years.
Objective: This study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of EFCT in promoting
emotional control of couples with infertility living in Isfahan City, Iran.
Materials and Methods: This is a quasi-experimental study with pre-test and post-test
design and a control group. The statistical population consists of all infertile couples
referred to infertility centers of Isfahan in 2016. Of these couples, 40 people were selected
using convenience sampling method and randomly divided into the case or EFCT group
(n=20) and control group (n=20). Both groups completed the Affective Control Scale of
Williams et al. before the intervention, and then the case group received an 8-session EFCT
intervention (two 90-min sessions per week for four weeks). After the intervention, the
couples did the questionnaires again. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive
(mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (Univariate ANCOVA).
Results: The results of univariate ANCOVA showed that EFCT was effective in improving the
infertile couples’ control over their emotions (P=0.001).
Conclusion: It seems that EFCT can improve the control of infertile couples over their
emotions.