What Makes Touch Comfortable? An Examination of Touch Giving and Receiving in Two Cultures

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 49(9), P. 1392 - 1407

Published: June 29, 2022

This study examined how touch role and culture shape affective experiences. Germans ( N = 130) Chinese were surveyed once as toucher touchee. For different actions, they (a) provided free-text descriptions of what prompts touch, (b) indicated with whom feels comfortable, (c) highlighted areas comfort on a body outline. Overall, was prompted by affectionate feelings, more comfortable closely bonded individuals, when directed at the upper arms, shoulders, back. Touch mattered for experiences prompting in that touchees felt less positive than touchers. Culture differentiated topographies. Compared Chinese, intimate to torso back public hands. Notably, however, examining revealed overlap divergence, ensuring mutual individuals physically connect.

Language: Английский

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Longing for Touch and Quality of Life during the COVID-19 Pandemic

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 20(5), P. 3855 - 3855

Published: Feb. 21, 2023

To combat the spread of COVID-19, regulations were introduced to limit physical interactions. This could induce a longing for touch in general population and subsequently impact social, psychological, environmental quality life (QoL). The aim this study was investigate potential association between COVID-19 regulations, QoL. A total 1978 participants from different countries completed an online survey, including questions about their wellbeing desire be touched. In our sample, 83% reported touch. Longing associated with lower physical, psychological social No found These findings highlight importance QoL suggest that have concurrent negative consequences population.

Language: Английский

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The social roots of self development: from a bodily to an intellectual interpersonal dialogue

Psychological Research, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 87(6), P. 1683 - 1695

Published: Jan. 3, 2023

Language: Английский

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The Effect of Touch on Affect, Stress, Sense of Connectedness and Sense of Self: An experimental Study on Contact Improvisation Dance.

The Arts in Psychotherapy, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown, P. 102272 - 102272

Published: March 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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The analgesic power of pleasant touch in individuals with chronic pain: Recent findings and new insights

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 16

Published: Sept. 13, 2022

This mini-review covers recent works on the study of pleasant touch in patients with chronic pain (CP) and its potential use as a treatment. While experiments have demonstrated that touch, through activation CT-afferents brain regions involved affective value, might reduce unpleasantness intensity induced pain, interaction between CP remains under-examined. Some show disrupt positive aspects receiving while other studies perception pleasantness is preserved. Moreover, only few attempts been made to test whether can modulatory effect CP, but these results also remain inconclusive. Indeed, one CT-touch diminish after short stimulation, another suggested not be sufficient. Future should further investigate psychological neural interplay CP. In conclusion this mini-review, we propose new tool recently developed using immersive virtual reality (IVR).

Language: Английский

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Affectionate touch and diurnal oxytocin levels: An ecological momentary assessment study

eLife, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 12

Published: May 30, 2023

Background: Affectionate touch, which is vital for mental and physical health, was restricted during the Covid-19 pandemic. This study investigated association between momentary affectionate touch subjective well-being, as well salivary oxytocin cortisol in everyday life Methods: In first step, we measured anxiety depression symptoms, loneliness attitudes toward social a large cross-sectional online survey (N = 1050). From this sample, N 247 participants completed ecological assessments over 2 days with six daily by answering smartphone-based questions on state, providing concomitant saliva samples assessment. Results: Multilevel models showed that within-person level, associated decreased self-reported anxiety, general burden, stress, increased levels. On between-person levels higher happiness. Moreover, individuals positive attitude experiencing reported more health problems. Conclusions: Our results suggest linked to endogenous times of pandemic lockdown might buffer stress hormonal level. These findings have implications preventing burden contact restrictions. Funding: The funded German Research Foundation, Psychological Society, Academic Exchange Service.

Language: Английский

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Self-identified causes of longing for touch in adults: An exploratory study

Personality and Individual Differences, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 237, P. 113053 - 113053

Published: Jan. 23, 2025

Language: Английский

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Psychosocial stress factors in families with preterm infants during the Covid-19 pandemic: a cross-sectional study

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 19(1)

Published: April 4, 2025

Abstract Background The Covid-19 pandemic restrictions severely impacted parents’ and children’s mental physical health. Families with pre-existing stress factors may have been particularly affected. Parental following premature birth is well acknowledged. addition of the to stressors related constitute an especially high-risk factor for family thereby neuropsychological development. Accessibility special preterm follow-up care programs important development faced additional relevance in face stressors. We studied hypothesis that families born infants were adversely affected by pandemic-related comparison term infants. Specific explored as accessibility support programs. Methods In this cross-sectional study, recruited a neonatology unit highest level according German regulations. A questionnaire on perceived including amongst others: social contacts, support, intrafamilial conflicts, leisure activities, planning was completed 101 parents prematurely while still place. distinguished low gestational age weight from other T-tests, Chi-Square tests, Kruskal-Wallis binary logistic regression analysis applied compare subgroups. Results levels resulting restricted conflicts services significantly higher term-born targeted lower moderate late has had influence decision more children both groups. Conclusion less stressed than those Targeted focused groups left without medical check-ups. This reflects general focus society populations during pandemic.

Language: Английский

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Longing for touch and vicarious perception of CT-optimal touch in clinical outpatients

Journal of Psychiatric Research, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: April 1, 2025

Language: Английский

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Social Touch as an Allostatic Tool in Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Published: April 25, 2025

Language: Английский

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