ArticleBiological psychology2015
Depressive symptomatology and respiratory sinus arrhythmia in a non-clinical sample of middle-aged African Americans.
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- Cardiac Vagal Control, Regulatory Processes and Depressive Symptoms: Re-Investigating the Moderating Role of Sleep Quality.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- The Autonomic Nervous System and Hypertension: Ethnic Differences and Psychosocial Factors.Current cardiology reports · 2019Review
- Active coping moderates associations among race-related stress, rumination, and depressive symptoms in emerging adult African American women.Development and psychopathology · 2018Article
- Association Between Depression, Anxiety, and Antidepressant Use With T-Wave Amplitude and QT-Interval.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2018Article
- Racial differences in the association between heart rate variability and left ventricular mass.Experimental physiology · 2017Article
- Examining the association between perceived discrimination and heart rate variability in African Americans.Cultural diversity & ethnic minority psychology · 2017Article
- Guidelines for Reporting Articles on Psychiatry and Heart rate variability (GRAPH): recommendations to advance research communication.Translational psychiatry · 2016Review
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Abstract
Decreased heart rate variability and depression are both independent risk factors for cardiac mortality in clinical and non-clinical samples. The purpose of the current study is to examine the hypothesis that severity of depressive symptomatology is inversely associated with respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) in a non-clinical sample of African Americans. The sample included 77 African Americans with a mean age of 48.4 (SD = 11.7). Participants completed the Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) and a 5-min resting baseline measurement of RSA was collected. The BDI-II total score was positively associated with RSA (β = .334, p = .008). Given the unexpected direction of the association, we separated the BDI-II into cognitive and somatic affective subscales to identify which construct was driving the relationship. The somatic affective, was related to RSA (β = .328, p = .010), but not the cognitive subscale. Given this unexpected positive result, future research should further examine the nature of the relationship between depressive symptomatology and RSA in African Americans, as the relationship may vary based on levels of depressive symptomatology.
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