Elodie Charbonnier

Université de Nîmes | Unimes · Psychologie

Background In metastatic colorectal cancer (CRCm), fatigue is pervasive, reduces quality of life, and is negatively associated with survival. Its course is explained in part by psychosocial variables such as emotional distress, coping strategies, or perceived control. Thus, to reduce fatigue, psychosocial interventions appear to be relevant. In som...

Systematic review and meta-analysis of the associations between illness representations and coping strategies or psychosocial consequences of infertility.

In older populations, falls are responsible for decrease autonomy and increased pain and injuries. With aging, fall risk is multifactorial and associated with sarcopenia, impaired balance, falls themselves and psychological factors such as fear of falling. The objectives of the present study were: (a) to test the effects of a short multicomponent p...

Background Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, sanitary context and e-learning have greatly modified student lifestyles and led to deteriorations in their mental health. An increase in anxiety and depressive symptoms and sedentary behaviors, reduction in physical activity, and a stronger tendency to move toward unhealthy diet have been de...

Les effets délétères de la pandémie sur la santé des étudiants sont désormais largement démontrés. Cependant, certains domaines de recherche sont encore sous-explorés. En effet, 1. La majorité des recherches sont descriptives et n’identifient pas les facteurs impliqués dans ces détériorations de santé ; 2. Les études ont essentiellement été menées...

While it is now clear that the COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on the mental health of individuals, especially the most vulnerable ones such as students, we have very little knowledge about the long-term consequences. The objective of this study was to compare the mental health and coping of French university students during the different...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a major impact on university students, particulary on their mental health. However, little is yet known about how to prevent and/or reduce this impact. Prior to COVID-19, some studies have shown that online stress management programs were successful enough to improve students' mental health and stress adjustment strate...

BACKGROUND Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, sanitary context and e-learning have greatly modified student lifestyles and led to deteriorations in their mental health. An increase in anxiety and depressive symptoms and sedentary behaviors, reduction in physical activity, and a stronger tendency to move toward unhealthy diet have been de...

Background: Many studies have highlighted the negative mental health consequences of lockdowns. However, to date, we do not know how these consequences change over time. The first objective of the present study was to track changes in adjustment strategies and clinical issues among French university students at different times of the pandemic. The...

Many studies have highlighted the impact of lockdowns on the lifestyle of university students. We do not, however, know how these lifestyles have changed over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. The objective of the present study was to describe changes in the levels of physical activity, sedentary behaviors, and alcohol consumption in French univ...

Many risk factors for PTSD have been identified in flood victims. Yet, some have been under-explored, like cognitive coping, which has been identified as a risk factor for PTSD for other traumatic events. Moreover, while flooding can affect places that are important to individuals (e.g. their home and neighbourhood), the role of sense of place in P...

Points essentiels Les confinements ont augmenté les symptomatologies anxieuses et dépressives des étudiants Français. Au-delà des confinements, la situation sanitaire a augmenté la présence de symptômes anxieux chez les étudiants. Il semble que les étudiants aient augmenté leur temps d’activité physique et sportive durant le premier confinement, ma...

Introduction. – Despite the high prevalence of depressive symptoms among women being overweight orhaving obesity, the role of stigma and causal attributions in the expression of these symptoms in Frenchwomen has been largely under-explored to date. Objective. – The aim of this research is to study the role of internalized stigmatization, stigmatizi...

BACKGROUND The COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting abrupt changes in daily life and ways of learning has had a significant impact on university students, especially on their mental health. However, little is known on how to prevent and/or reduce its impact to date. Prior to COVID, some studies have shown that online stress management programs were...

Health beliefs, and especially illness representations, have been widely used to understand clinical outcomes and psychosocial adjustment in people with physical diseases. However, this area of research has been under-explored in the field of mental health, and the few studies that have been conducted have used very different methods. Therefore, th...

Even before the current pandemic, university students were known to have high levels of hassles, anxiety, and depressive symptoms. In all probability, the advent of COVID-19 has substantially raised these levels. The present study measured the emotional state of university students during lockdown and identified the relevant situational and psychol...

Parental burnout is a syndrome that can be defined along three dimensions: emotional exhaustion, emotional distancing from children, and lack of parental accomplishment. The aim of the present study was to highlight the contribution of children’s mean age to profiles of parental burnout. To this end, the Parental Burnout Inventory was administered...

Floods are particularly violent natural disasters that are becoming more frequent. Floods have significant impacts in material, financial and psychological terms, most noticeably in increased levels of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). While identification of risk factors of posttraumatic stress disorder have largely been documented for other t...

Falls can have multiple detrimental consequences in the elderly, and this is particularly relevant for women. To prevent the risk of falling, intervention programmes based on physical exercises focusing on balance appear to be the most efficient, which explains the multiplication of this type of action at the local level. However, these actions are...

Floods are a frequent occurrence in France, and these natural disasters can trigger a range of psychiatric problems. The most common of which is Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Although personality traits and cognitive emotion regulation strategies have already been shown to play a role in PTSD, the influence of these two dimensions and their...

Understanding and improving the psychosocial adjustments (e.g. quality of life, depression) and treatment outcomes (e.g.adherence, beliefs about treatments) of people with mental disorders is a major health issue. The self-regulation model (SRM) postulates that illness representations play a central role on adjustment and treatment of people with p...

Les chutes peuvent avoir de multiples conséquences préjudiciables chez les personnes âgées et les femmes représentent la population la plus à risque. Les bénéfices de l’activité physique dans la prévention des chutes chez les personnes institutionnalisées ou peu autonomes ont largement été démontrés. Cependant, nous manquons de données sur les femm...

La psychologie clinique se veut traditionnellement centrée sur l’individu. Elle vise l’étude des mécanismes psychologiques, des caractéristiques individuelles, des habilités, et des déficits de l’individu en souffrance. Mes travaux s’inscrivent en marge de ce positionnement classique de la psychologie clinique en accordant une place centrale au con...

Stratégies cognitives de régulation émotionnelle et traits de personnalité en lien avec le trouble de stress post-traumatique après une inondation Poster présenté lors du 47ème conrès de l'AFTCC

Background: Mothers of ADHD children often display high levels of distress. Understanding the origin of such distress in a view to reducing it is an essential part of the clinical management of ADHD children. Studies have shown that children’s symptoms are linked to mothers’ stigma and that such stigma can cause mothers’ distress. However, no study...

Introduction: The stigmatization of various mental disorders has been widely studied, but the common understanding of mental disorders has seldom been explored, especially for specific psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. We used the Common-Sense Model to understand and compare the general public’s multidimensional illne...

Background: Lesbians, gays, and bisexual people (LGB) present high levels of suicidal ideation. The disclosure of sexual orientation is a stressful experience which presents a high suicide risk. Research has not paid sufficient attention to stress during this disclosure in order to understand suicide among LGB people. The aims of this study were t...

Les personnes schizophrènes sont fréquemment perçues comme dangereuses (Durand-Zaleski et al., 2012), incompétentes, imprévisibles et responsables de leur trouble (Corrigan et al., 2002). Cette stigmatisation peut avoir un impact délétère sur leur estime de soi (Werner et al., 2008), leurs symptômes (Lysaker et Salyers, 2007) et leur risque suicida...

Background: According to the Self-Regulation Model, illness perceptions influence an individual’s coping (such as the taking of treatment) and emotional response to their illness. Emerging research suggests that this model could be used to explore illness perceptions in mental health. The aim of this exploratory study is, firstly, to measure and de...

Le modèle des représentations de la maladie (Leventhal, Nerenz et Steele, 1984) est largement utilisé pour les troubles somatiques chroniques mais son application aux troubles psychiatriques reste très marginale. Selon ce modèle, les personnes confrontées à un diagnostic vont tenter de donner du sens à cette situation en élaborant des représentatio...

Purpose: The aim of this study is to show the characteristics of stress during a highly stressful coming-out, compared to other stress situations.Methods: Our sample was comprised of 400 lesbian, gay or bisexual young adults aged 18 – 26 recruited from two French online dating sites.Results: The results show high stress during the coming-out proces...

L'objectif de cette recherche est d'appréhender la manière dont les jeunes homosexuels évaluent et font face à une situation hautement stressante. Un questionnaire s'inspirant du « Questionnaire d'Évaluation de la Transaction Stressante» a été administré à 200 jeunes homosexuels. Les participants ont répondu à cet auto-questionnaire en s'appuyant s...

The objective of this paper is to propose a specific reading of suicidal ideas involved into the action’s decision making. Indeed, cognitions which lead an individual to decide his/her suicide may be the working tools for a preventive cognitive psychotherapy. We make the assumption that some of these suicidal thoughts would pertain to similar proce...

Résumé Cette recherche vise à mieux comprendre le risque suicidaire élevé des jeunes lesbiennes et gays. Pour cela, nous avons évalué les liens pouvant exister entre leur risque suicidaire et l’important stress qu’elles et ils ressentent lors de la divulgation de leur homosexualité. Des entretiens semi-directifs ont été réalisés auprès de 15 jeunes...

La littérature met en avant les nombreux signes de souffrances présents chez les jeunes homosexuels (addictions, dépression, anxiété, risque suicidaire…). Selon le « minority stress model » (Meyer, 1995), cette souffrance peut être mise en lien avec les nombreux stresseurs rencontrés par les homosexuels, plus particulièrement les stresseurs spécifi...

Homosexuals are one of the most stressed groups of individuals (Lewis, Derlega, Griffin & Krowinski, 2003). The various stressful experiences which they face have been grouped under the term "minority stress" (Meyer, 1995). This model takes account of the excess amount of stress experienced by individuals belonging to these stigmatised social categ...

How can children’s schemas evolve into adult schemas that are responsible for depression? To answer this question, we translated Schmidt, Joiner, Young, and Telch’s (1995) Early Maladaptive Schema Questionnaire into French and adapted it to children. We administered the questionnaire to two groups of children in years seven to ten (N = 252), one gr...

L'adolescence est une des périodes de la vie où le recours à des substances psychoactives est le plus marqué. La consommation des adolescents fait l'objet d'une attention particulière de la part des pouvoirs publics et des acteurs de santé et de prévention. Les premières expérimentations ont souvent lieu au cours de cette période et peuvent conduir...

Les premiers modèles de l'addiction sont issus de la psychologie clinique et de la psychopathologie. Mais avec l'émergence de la psychologie de la santé dans les années 80, et plus particulièrement du modèle transactionnel du stress, une nouvelle compréhension de l'addiction voit le jour. L'approche transactionnelle des addictions met en articulati...

1. Introduction Les études Nord Américaines et Françaises rendent compte du risque suicidaire élevé chez les jeunes homosexuels (Adam, 2001; Bourdet & Pugnière, 2011; Silenzio, Pena, Duberstein, Cerel & Knox, 2007; Velter, 2007). La divulgation de son homosexualité est souvent difficile et stressante (Iwasaki & Ristock, 2007; Savin-Williams, 2001;...

La divulgation de son homosexualité est une des expériences les plus stressantes que les jeunes homosexuels rencontrent. Cette étude vise à mieux comprendre la manière dont les jeunes homosexuels y font face. Cette recherche a été menée auprès de 200 jeunes se disant homosexuels, âgés de 16 à 25 ans (69 femmes, 131 hommes). Les stratégies de coping...

Les homosexuels ont un risque suicidaire plus élevé que les hétérosexuels. Le coming-out (l’annonce de son homosexualité) est une expérience stressante durant laquelle les conduites suicidaires sont fréquentes. Cette étude vise à appréhender les liens existants entre le vécu émotionnel et le risque suicidaire des jeunes homosexuels lors de leur com...

Les études menées dans le monde entier illustrent la prévalence des conduites suicidaires chez les jeunes homosexuels. Cependant, les taux varient selon les recherches, en partie en fonction de la définition qui est donnée à l’homosexualité. Communément, elle se définit par trois dimensions, le fait de se définir homosexuel, d’avoir des relations s...

cette étude vise à mieux appréhender les facteurs de vulnérabilité des jeunes lesbiennes et gais en lien avec les attitudes de leurs parents vis-à-vis de leur homosexualité. elle a été menée en France auprès de 82 jeunes lesbiennes et gais. au sein du groupe, 66 % affirment avoir déjà eu des idées suicidaires tandis que 31 % disent avoir déjà fait...

The aim of this study is to better comprehend vulnerability factors for young gays and lesbians and the connection between these factors and their parents' attitudes about their homosexuality. The research was carried out in France with 82 young gays and lesbians. In this group, 66% stated that they have had suicidal thoughts and 31% reported havin...