The perception of aversiveness of surgical procedure pictures is modulated by personal/occupational relevance.
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2016
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It is well established that emotions are organized around two motivational systems: the
defensive and the appetitive. Individual differences are relevant factors in emotional reactions,
making them more flexible and less stereotyped. There is evidence that health professionals
have lower emotional reactivity when viewing scenes of situations involving pain.
The objective of this study was to investigate whether the rating of pictures of surgical procedure
depends on their personal/occupational relevance. Fifty-two female Nursing (health
discipline) and forty-eight Social Work (social science discipline) students participated in
the experiment, which consisted of the presentation of 105 images of different categories
(e.g., neutral, food), including 25 images of surgical procedure. Volunteers judged each picture
according to its valence (pleasantness) and arousal using the Self-Assessment Manikin
scale (dimensional approach). Additionally, the participants chose the word that best
described what they felt while viewing each image (discrete emotion perspective). The average
valence score for surgical procedure pictures for the Nursing group (M = 4.57; SD =
1.02) was higher than the score for the Social Work group (M = 3.31; SD = 1.05), indicating
that Nursing students classified those images as less unpleasant than the Social Work students
did. Additionally, the majority of Nursing students (65.4%) chose “neutral” as the word
that best described what they felt while viewing the pictures. In the Social Work group, disgust
(54.2%) was the emotion that was most frequently chosen. The evaluation of emotional
stimuli differed according to the groups' personal/occupational relevance: Nursing students
judged pictures of surgical procedure as less unpleasant than the Social Work students did,
possibly reflecting an emotional regulation skill or some type of habituation that is critically
relevant to their future professional work.
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PAES, J. R. et al. The perception of aversiveness of surgical procedure pictures is modulated by personal/occupational relevance. Plos One, v. 11, p. e0160582, 2016. Disponível em: <http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0160582>. Acesso em: 15 set. 2017.