N. Ohri, India
Presenter of 3 Presentations
EPP1379 - Relationship between Online Cognition and Personality Traits: A Questionnaire Based Study of Medical College Students.
ABSTRACT
Introduction
Current classification systems are not sure where to place the internet use disorder. Is it an addiction, an impulse control disorder, a consequence of another psychiatric morbidity or a consequence of personality trait/personality disorder?
Objectives
We intended to study which personality traits associated with online cognition may contribute towards Problematic internet use(PIU). We also analysed the relationship between number of hours of use/week of internet and PIU along with its relation with two 'screening' questions.
Methods
Online cognition scale and Abbreviated Eysenck Personality questionnaires were our measurements of choice in addition to demographic measures and some questions pertaining to online behaviour patterns.
Results
Total 163 responses were analysed. The demographic pools consisted mostly of young adults who had, on average, used the internet for 5.2 years at present rate of 21.81hours/week.
We observed significantly higher mean OCS scores in men, in people who thought that the internet interfered with their lives and in those who felt the need to 'cut-down'. A moderate positive and significant correlation was observed between hpurs/week of internet use and OCS scores.
Also, significant positive correlation was observed between Neuroticism and OCS, impulsivity, and loneliness/depression scores. Significant negative correlations were observed between the Lie trait and impulse control. Neuroticism and Lie together contributed to 21.8% of variance in OCS scores.
Conclusions
Neuroticism and Lie traits (representing need for social acceptance) were found to the causing significamn varience in the OCS scores of the subjects. High number of hours/week use of internet was related to the feeling of 'need to cut down use'.
EPV0453 - Borges and the Art of Forgetting
ABSTRACT
Introduction
In 2005 Elizabeth Parker and fellow researchers described the first case of Hyperthymestic Syndrome, a woman going by initials AJ. Thereafter, a handful more of such cases have emerged. Older descriptions of extraordinary memory in medical literature mainly considered semantic and working memories.
Jorge Luis Borges in his 1930s short story ‘Funes, his Memory’ writes about his, presumably fictitious, encounter with a man named Ireno Funes who possessed an extraordinary memory and a knack for keeping track of briefest of passing moment.
Among many qualities that Funes and AJ share are their extraordinary memories, obsession for keeping track of time, and their problems with abstraction. After describing his extraordinary memory, Borges says of Funes, ‘I suspect nevertheless, that he was not very good at thinking. To think is to ignore (or forget) differences, to generalize, to abstract.’ Similarly, AJ has been described to have impaired abstraction, hypothesis formation and conceptual shifting. Moreover, both Funes and AJ see their capability as a burden rather than a gift. “My memory, sir, is like a garbage heap.” Says Funes.
Objectives
A brief exploration of Jorge Luis Borges’ works in the context of autobiographical memory.
Methods
The comparisons between Borges' description of his character's autobiographical memory and findings of modern research techniques will be done qualitatively.
Results
Effort is made to undersatnd Borges philosophy in context of mordern memory research.
Conclusions
An in depth look into Borges' philosohies linking perception of time, coding of memory, abstration and language can inform further line of research regarding autobiographical memory.
O280 - Sexual Fantasies, Subjective Satisfaction and Quality of Sexual Life in patients of sexual dysfunction: A Comparative Study.
ABSTRACT
Introduction
Exploring the ways in which sexual fantasies may affect sexual experience and satisfaction is of relavence in the clinical setting involving sexual dysfuntion.
Objectives
To observe how the sexual fantasy scores differ in their relationship with sexual satisfaction, experience and quality between sexual dysfunction cases and normal controls.
Methods
Scales included: Wilson's sex fantasy questionnaire (WSFQ), Arizona Sexual Experience Scale (ASEX), Sexual Quality of life Questionnaire (SQoL), and a subjective sexual satisfaction meter. Differences in resposes of both groups on WSFQ (item-wise and domain-wise) were analysed using T-tests. Two-way ANOVA was applied to see how other scales affected sexual fantasy.
Results
Cases scored significantly higher on ASEX scale, and low on satisfaction, SQoL and WSFQ
Cases N=1OO | Controls N=100 | t-test | |
Satisfaction Mean(sd) | 4.27(1.85) | 7.82(1.31) | t=3.052;df=198,p=0.0026 |
Asex | 17.52(4.73) | 8.28(1.34) | t=15.24;df=198,p<0.0001 |
SQoL | 29.41(12.12) | 49.5(6.67) | t=14.52;df=198,p<0.0001 |
WSFQ | 26.80(17.61) | 30.59(15.32) | t=1.62,df=98,p=0.106 |
Majority of WSFQ responses, both in cases and controls, fell in the intimate and impersonal domains.
Sexual fantasy scores and sexual satisfaction had a strong positive and significant correlation in controls but no linear correlation in the case-subjects.
sexual fantasy scores contributed to 5.7% of difference in the scores of SQoL between groups.
Major variance in scores of satisfaction in our subjects depended on presence or absence of sexual dysfunction(46.5%)but sexual fantasies also contributed to 8.8% of the variance.
Conclusions
The study showed that fantasies contribute to positive sexual outcomes only in absence of sexual dysfunction.
ANOVAanalysis revealed that in case-subjects sexual satisfaction briefly increases initially with increase in fantasy scores but starts to decline as fantasies increase.