ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2021
Gender Matters: Nonlinear Relationships Between Heart Rate Variability and Depression and Positive Affect.
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- Associations Between Positive Affect and Heart Rate Variability: A Systematic Review.Current cardiology reports · 2025Pooled it
- Nonlinear Relations Between Resting Heart Rate Measures and Health Risk Behavior in Emerging Adulthood.Journal of adolescence · 2026Article
- Affective Sensitivity to Ovarian Steroid Hormone Flux Across the Menstrual Cycle: Manifestations and Biopsychosocial Risk Factors.Annual review of clinical psychology · 2026Review
- Adjusting Autonomic Physiology with Diet and Minerals to Improve Health.Integrative medicine (Encinitas, Calif.) · 2026Review
- The association between cardiac vagal activity and urinary catecholamine: Investigating the effect of race and sex.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2025Article
- Discrimination and Heart Rate Variability Responses in a Diverse Sample of Young Adults.Journal of psychophysiology · 2025Article
- Are the ways women cope with stressors related to their health behaviors over time?Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2025Article
- Associations of luteal phase changes in vagally mediated heart rate variability with premenstrual emotional changes.BMC women's health · 2024Observational
- A sex-specific pathway linking early life maltreatment, vagal activity, and depressive symptoms.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2024Article
- Cardiac Autonomic Balance Is Altered during the Acute Stress Response in Adolescent Major Depression-Effect of Sex.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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- Gender moderates the association between resting vagally mediated heart rate variability and attentional control.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Gender Differences in Cardiac Chronotropic Control: Implications for Heart Rate Variability Research.Applied psychophysiology and biofeedback · 2022Article
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Abstract
Vagally mediated heart rate variability (vmHRV), a measure of the parasympathetic nervous system's control over the heart, is often negatively related to maladaptive emotional outcomes. Recent work suggests that quadratic relationships involving these factors may be present; however, research has not investigated gender differences in these nonlinear functions. To address this gap, the current study tested for quadratic relationships between resting vmHRV and depression and positive affect while investigating gender differences in these relationships. Significant quadratic effects were found between resting vmHRV and reports of both depression symptoms and positive affect in women but not men. Specifically, the lowest levels of depression and the highest levels of positive affect were found at moderate vmHRV in women. These results suggest that examinations of vmHRV's nonlinear associations require the consideration of gender. Our findings are interpreted based on proposed differential neuropsychological mechanisms of vmHRV in men versus women.
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