Manuscript Title:

EMOTIONAL REGULATION AND SOCIAL PHOBIA IN PATIENTS WITH PSYCHOGENIC NON-EPILEPTIC SEIZURES (PNES) AND TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPSY

Author:

D. WALAA BADAWY MOHAMED BADAWY

DOI Number:

DOI:10.17605/OSF.IO/VWBUQ

Published : 2023-03-23

About the author(s)

1. D. WALAA BADAWY MOHAMED BADAWY - Assistant Professor, Clinical Psychology, King Khalid University, Monufia University.

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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to use the State Emotional Regulation Questionnaire (SERQ) and the State Social Phobia Questionnaire (SSAQ) to investigate the relationship between social phobia and difficulty controlling one's emotions in people with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures and temporal lobe epilepsy. This screening method has not been utilized with this population of patients. Fifty participants were included in the research after their medical records, diagnoses, and encephalograms were reviewed. Patients were gathered from Menoufia University's Psychiatry and Neurology Department at the School of Medicine. The median age was 31.8 and the standard deviation was 10.66 for the whole sample of (n=50), which was split evenly between (22) patients with TEL and (28) patients with PNES Participants' ages ranged from 18 to 50. Extra psychological evaluations were done to validate and address the problems. Participants filled out a questionnaire that included demographic questions as well as a series of items representing both administrative tools. Pearson's approach revealed a somewhat significant correlation (r = 0.528) between individuals with PNES and those with temporal lobe epilepsy (r = 0.754). Similarly, individuals with temporal lobe epilepsy and those with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures also showed a somewhat favorable connection between social phobia and emotional regulation. The results indicate that psychological and social variables are associated with emotional dominance more often than the opposite, emotional weakness.


Keywords

Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, Social phobia, Emotion Regulation, Expressive Suppression, Cognitive Appraisal, & Psychogenic Non-Epileptic Seizures (PNES).