Reciprocal associations between daily need-based experiences, energy, and sleep in chronic fatigue syndrome, 2018, Campbell et al

Andy

Andy

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Abstract
OBJECTIVE:
Previous findings indicate that patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) report significant day-to-day fluctuations in subjective energy and sleep. Herein, we examined whether daily variation in the satisfaction and frustration of the basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness would contribute to daily variation in subjective energy and quality and quantity of sleep. In addition, we examined whether daily variation in sleep would contribute to daily need-based experiences through (i.e., mediated by) daily fluctuations in subjective energy.

METHOD:
CFS patients (N = 120; 92% female; Mage = 42.10 years, SD = 10.46) completed a diary for 14 days which assessed their need-based experiences and subjective energy every evening and sleep every morning.

RESULTS:
Results indicated that subjective energy, sleep, and need experiences fluctuated significantly from day to day. Daily need satisfaction related to less daily fatigue and more daily vitality, while the opposite pattern was observed for daily need frustration. Daily need frustration was also uniquely related to poorer daily sleep quality. Lastly, better daily sleep quality was also uniquely related to more daily need satisfaction and less daily need frustration via (i.e., mediated by) daily variation in subjective energy. These reciprocal within-day associations remained significant after controlling for the previous day's level of each outcome, with the exception of the relation between need frustration and sleep quality.

CONCLUSION:
The present findings underscore the reciprocal day-to-day association between need-based experiences and subjective energy in CFS. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved).
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Paywalled at http://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037/hea0000621
 
So this paper showed that we get frustrated on days when we do not feel well enough to do anything?

"Herein, we examined whether daily variation in the satisfaction and frustration of the basic psychological needs for autonomy, competence, and relatedness would contribute to daily variation in subjective energy and quality and quantity of sleep. "

That sounds as if they were trying to prove that satisfaction and frustration led to feeling worse but they found

"These reciprocal within-day associations remained significant after controlling for the previous day's level of each outcome"

so they say reciprocal when they only found what we would say was sickness causing frustration whereas they used contribute when trying to show their favourite thing of our illness being a physical response to emotional upset.

They don't believe their own data.
 
Sly Saint said:
when will they stop 'researching' the bleeding obvious(?):yawn:
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And who keeps giving out money like halloween candy to do it. There are too many psych students/researchers. So let me offer up some worthy topics.

Study the psychology of war. Or of CEO's of fortune 500 Co's. Or the psychological effects of a world where politicians lie everyday.*

*Since I don't trust robust results from anything studied I'll be arsed to know why I suggested this.
 
The present findings underscore the reciprocal day-to-day association between need-based experiences and subjective energy in CFS.
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The findings seem rather predictable, but I fear that they might lauch an investigation to see if the emotional experience of need frustration causes CFS symptoms.
 
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