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Time‐Series Analyses of General Arousal and Headache Activity in the Natural Environment
Author(s) -
Cathcart Stuart,
Pritchard Donald
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
headache: the journal of head and face pain
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.14
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1526-4610
pISSN - 0017-8748
DOI - 10.1046/j.1526-4610.1999.3903213.x
Subject(s) - arousal , mood , psychology , low arousal theory , audiology , rhythm , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , medicine , social psychology
A naturalistic longitudinal study was conducted to examine temporal relationships between subjective dimensions of general arousal and headache activity. The “tense arousal” dimension of Thayer's biopsychological model of mood and arousal ( The Biopsychology of Mood and Arousal . New York: Oxford University Press; 1989) was recorded using the Activation‐Deactivation Adjective Check List (ADACL). Recordings were made eight times daily, every 2 hours from awakening, in conjunction with a clinical diary recording head pain intensity and duration. Three time series of daily, half‐daily, and bihourly headache and tension scores were modeled and cross‐correlated. Results indicated moderate positive same‐time correlations, but revealed large interindividual and intraindividual variation in temporal relationships.