Open Access e-Journal Cardiometry No.16 May 2020

ORIGINAL RESEARCH Submitted: 17.01.2020; Accepted: 28.02.2020; Published online: 21.05.2020
Cardiometric evidence data on
human self-control of emotional
states in the context of the use of
metaphoric associative cards
Vladimir A. Zernov 1 , Elena V. Lobanova 1 , Elvira V. Likhacheva 1 ,
Lyubov P. Nikolaeva 1 , Diana D. Dymarchuk 1 , Denis S. Yesenin 1 ,
Nikita V. Mizin 1 , Aleksandr S. Ognev 1 *, Mikhail Y. Rudenko 1 ,
Natalia Y. Galoi 1 , Anna R. Sudarikova 1
1
Russian New University
Russia, 105005, Moscow, Radio str., 22
*
Corresponding author:
e-mail: altognev@mail.com
Abstract
The paper presents our experimental evidence of validity of our
hypothesis that definite, substantively different, psychophysiological
states of a human individual can be really fixed with the use of metaphoric
associative cards, and that transitions from one psychophysiological
state to another are accompanied by significant changes
in the performance of the human organism, and, first of all, in the
performance of the heart. It has been shown that the metaphoric
associative cards can serve not only as a good forecasting tool, a
sort of predictors of human behavior in certain emotionally charged,
stress-provoking, situations, but also as a means for active modeling
of optimal mode to adequately overcome these difficulties.
Keywords
Cardiometry, Heart rate variability, Baevsky stress index,
Emotional state, Validity, Coaching associative cards, Metaphoric
associative cards, Psychocorrection, Psychotherapy,
Psychological consultation, Stress, Subjective genesis, Supra
situational activity, Psychosomatic self-regulation
Imprint
Vladimir A. Zernov, Elena V. Lobanova, Elvira V. Likhacheva, Lyubov
P. Nikolaeva, Diana D. Dymarchuk, Denis S. Yesenin, Nikita
V. Mizin, Aleksandr S. Ognev, Mikhail Y. Rudenko, Natalia
Y. Galoi, Anna R. Sudarikova. Cardiometric evidence data on
human self-control of emotional states in the context of the
use of metaphoric associative cards. Cardiometry; Issue 16; May
2020; р.55-61; DOI: 10.12710/cardiometry.2020.16.5561; Available
from: http://www.cardio metry.net/issues/no16-may-2020/
cardio-oсulometric-indicators
Introduction
Metaphoric associative cards have been included
for a long time in the repertoire of diagnostic and therapeutic
means used by coaches and practical psychologists.
The number of various sets of metaphoric associative
cards grows rapidly. Observed is an increase
in the frequency rate and variety of training courses
aimed at their application.
But until now, no systematic studies related to tracing
and assessments of psychophysiological responses
in testing with the use of metaphoric associative cards
have been conducted. The existence of such responses
follows from an assumption that due to the associations,
actualized by such cards, certain cognitive and
affective components of the individual’s life experience
begin "to awake” in the tested human subjects.
For example, such mobilization can be manifested in
a certain pattern of the cardiovascular system performance.
If the idea of such associations is not only a
theoretical construct, and if, with the use of metaphoric
associative cards, some definite, substantively different,
psychophysiological states of a human person are
really fixed, then the transitions from one emotional
state to another are accompanied by significant changes
in the performance of the human organism, and,
first of all, in the performance pattern of the heart.
Taking into account the results of our previously described
studies [1-3, 8-11], it can also be assumed that
such changes can be recorded by assessing heart rate
variability using the Baevsky stress index (SI).
Materials and methods
To verify the hypothesis formulated by us above
herein, we have completed a series of experiments, in
which various emotional states generated due to facing
different life difficulties have been modeled with
metaphoric associative cards. The psycho-physiological
responses corresponding to these states have been
recorded using PC-assisted hemodynamic analyzer
Cardiocode. Besides, we have taken into account the
results of our previous experiments, which confirm
that an increased, in comparison with average values,
Baevsky stress index (SI) can be considered as a fingerprint
of the sthenic response to a stimulus, and a
reduced value thereof can be treated as a fingerprint of
the asthenic response to a stimulus [1-3, 8-11].We also
have considered that just the SI values are more effec-
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