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    The physiological and emotional effects of touch: Assessing a hand-massage intervention with high self-critics

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    Maratos, Frances A. cc
    Duarte, Joana
    Barnes, Christopher cc
    McEwan, Kirsten cc
    Sheffield, David cc
    Gilbert, Paul cc
    Affiliation
    University of Derby
    University of Coimbra
    Issue Date
    2017-01-25
    
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    Research demonstrates that highly self-critical individuals can respond negatively to the initial introduction of a range of therapeutic interventions. Yet touch as a form of therapeutic intervention in self-critical individuals has received limited prior investigation, despite documentation of its beneficial effects for well-being. Using the Forms of Self-Criticism/Self-Reassuring Scale, 15 high- and 14 low- self-critical individuals (from a sample of 139 females) were recruited to assess how self-criticism impacts upon a single instance of focused touch. All participants took part in a hand massage- and haptic control- intervention. Salivary cortisol and alpha amylase, as well as questionnaire measures of emotional responding were taken before and after the interventions. Following hand massage, analyses revealed cortisol decreased significantly across all participants; and that significant changes in emotional responding reflected well-being improvements across all participants. Supplementary analyses further revealed decreased alpha amylase responding to hand massage as compared to a compassion-focused intervention in the same (highly self-critical) individuals. Taken together, the physiological and emotional data indicate high self-critical individuals responded in a comparable manner to low self-critical individuals to a single instance of hand massage. This highlights that focused touch may be beneficial when first engaging highly self-critical individuals with specific interventions.
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    Maratos, F. A. et al (2017) 'The physiological and emotional effects of touch: Assessing a hand-massage intervention with high self-critics', Psychiatry Research, 250:221.
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    Elsevier
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    Psychiatry Research
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10545/621485
    DOI
    10.1016/j.psychres.2017.01.066
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    http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0165178116306059
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    Article
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    en
    ISSN
    01651781
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1016/j.psychres.2017.01.066
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