Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (German Aerospace Center), Hamburg, Germany.
Universität Hamburg (University of Hamburg), Germany.
Hum Factors. 2019 Mar;61(2):322-336. doi: 10.1177/0018720818804382. Epub 2018 Oct 15.
The goal was to investigate the influence of the tendency to catastrophize somatic symptoms and body awareness on motion-related sickness.
Influences of emotional and cognitive-evaluative processes on the genesis of motion sickness or cybersickness have rarely been investigated. Brain imaging studies showed activation during cybersickness, resembling the pattern found for pain processing. Two aspects often investigated in this context are pain catastrophizing and body awareness. The present two studies investigated the relationship of motion-related sickness to two tendencies involved in pain processing: pain catastrophizing and body awareness.
In the first study, 115 participants reported their motion sickness history, pain catastrophizing, and body awareness. In the second study, 40 participants were exposed to a virtual reality and reported their experience of cybersickness as well as their pain catastrophizing and body awareness.
Pain catastrophizing was positively correlated to motion sickness history and cybersickness. Body awareness did not show a linear effect on motion sickness history or cybersickness. However, the interaction effect of pain catastrophizing and body awareness was significant in both studies.
Pain catastrophizing seems to have a detrimental effect on cybersickness symptoms. Body awareness moderated the relationship in the sense that the combination of high pain catastrophizing and low body awareness lead to the highest sickness levels.
Affective and cognitive modulation of cybersickness symptoms should be considered when exposing risk groups to motion-related adverse stimuli.
旨在探究躯体症状灾难化倾向和身体意识对运动相关疾病的影响。
情感和认知评价过程对运动病或网络病发生的影响很少被研究。脑成像研究表明，在网络病期间会出现类似于疼痛处理模式的激活。在这种情况下，经常研究两个方面：疼痛灾难化和身体意识。本两项研究调查了与疼痛处理相关的两个倾向：疼痛灾难化和身体意识与运动相关疾病的关系。
在第一项研究中，115 名参与者报告了他们的运动病病史、疼痛灾难化和身体意识。在第二项研究中，40 名参与者暴露于虚拟现实中，并报告了他们的网络病体验以及他们的疼痛灾难化和身体意识。
疼痛灾难化与运动病病史和网络病呈正相关。身体意识对运动病病史或网络病没有线性影响。然而，在两项研究中，疼痛灾难化和身体意识的交互作用均具有统计学意义。
疼痛灾难化似乎对网络病症状有不利影响。身体意识调节了这种关系，因为高疼痛灾难化和低身体意识的组合会导致最高的疾病水平。
当将高危人群暴露于运动相关的不良刺激时，应考虑对网络病症状进行情感和认知调节。
