Interoceptive awareness mediated the effects of a 15-minute diaphragmatic breathing on empathy for pain: A randomized controlled trial.

IF 2.9 2区 心理学 Q2 NEUROSCIENCES
Psychophysiology Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Epub Date: 2024-03-26 DOI:10.1111/psyp.14573
Yaping He, Likun Ge, Jiajin Yuan, Yingying Wang, Danni Zheng, An Rui, Jun Song, Li Hu, Gao-Xia Wei
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Although empathy for pain plays an important role in positive interpersonal relationships and encourages engagement in prosocial behavior, it remains largely unknown whether empathy for pain could be effectively altered by psychophysiological techniques. This study aimed to investigate the impact of a single session of diaphragmatic breathing practice on empathy for pain and examine the potential mechanism involving interoceptive awareness. A total of 66 healthy participants were randomly assigned to the intervention group or the control group. The intervention group received a 15-minute diaphragmatic breathing (DB) practice with real-time biofeedback, while the control group was to gaze at a black screen at rest and not engaged in any other activities. Before and after the invention, all participants were instructed to evaluate the intensity and unpleasantness of empathy for pain while watching different pictures with pain or non-pain conditions. The Multidimensional Assessment of Interoceptive Awareness (MAIA) was then administered to measure interoceptive awareness. The results indicated a significant interaction between group and time with regard to empathy for pain and MAIA. The DB group showed a statistically significant decrease in both pain intensity and unpleasantness during the pain picture condition, as well as a noteworthy increase in MAIA scores. The control group did not demonstrate any substantial changes. More importantly, the regulation of attention, a dimension of MAIA, had a significant mediating effect on the impact of diaphragmatic breathing on reported unpleasantness. Diaphragmatic breathing could serve as a simple, convenient, and practical strategy to optimize human empathy for pain that warrants further investigation, which has important implications not only for individuals with impaired empathy for pain but also for the improvement of interoceptive awareness.

15分钟横膈膜呼吸对疼痛移情的影响是由感知间意识介导的:随机对照试验
虽然对疼痛的同理心在积极的人际关系中起着重要作用,并能鼓励人们参与亲社会行为,但对疼痛的同理心是否能通过心理生理学技术有效改变,在很大程度上仍是个未知数。本研究旨在调查单次横膈膜呼吸练习对疼痛共情的影响,并研究涉及感知间意识的潜在机制。共有 66 名健康参与者被随机分配到干预组或对照组。干预组接受 15 分钟的横膈膜呼吸(DB)练习,并进行实时生物反馈,而对照组则在休息时注视黑屏,不参与任何其他活动。在发明前后,所有参与者都被要求在观看有疼痛或无疼痛的不同图片时,评估对疼痛的移情强度和不愉快程度。然后进行多维感知意识评估(MAIA),以测量感知意识。结果表明,在对疼痛的移情和 MAIA 方面,组别和时间之间存在明显的交互作用。在疼痛图片条件下,DB 组的疼痛强度和不愉快程度都有了统计学意义上的显著降低,MAIA 分数也有了显著提高。对照组则没有任何实质性变化。更重要的是,作为 MAIA 的一个维度,注意力调节对横膈膜呼吸对报告的不愉快感的影响具有显著的中介作用。横膈膜呼吸可以作为一种简单、方便、实用的策略来优化人类对疼痛的同理心,值得进一步研究,这不仅对疼痛同理心受损的人有重要意义,对提高感知间意识也有重要意义。
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Psychophysiology
Psychophysiology 医学-神经科学
CiteScore
6.80
自引率
8.10%
发文量
225
审稿时长
2 months
期刊介绍: Founded in 1964, Psychophysiology is the most established journal in the world specifically dedicated to the dissemination of psychophysiological science. The journal continues to play a key role in advancing human neuroscience in its many forms and methodologies (including central and peripheral measures), covering research on the interrelationships between the physiological and psychological aspects of brain and behavior. Typically, studies published in Psychophysiology include psychological independent variables and noninvasive physiological dependent variables (hemodynamic, optical, and electromagnetic brain imaging and/or peripheral measures such as respiratory sinus arrhythmia, electromyography, pupillography, and many others). The majority of studies published in the journal involve human participants, but work using animal models of such phenomena is occasionally published. Psychophysiology welcomes submissions on new theoretical, empirical, and methodological advances in: cognitive, affective, clinical and social neuroscience, psychopathology and psychiatry, health science and behavioral medicine, and biomedical engineering. The journal publishes theoretical papers, evaluative reviews of literature, empirical papers, and methodological papers, with submissions welcome from scientists in any fields mentioned above.
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