SynthesisPloS one2021
The association between self-reported stress and cardiovascular measures in daily life: A systematic review.
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- Pooled it
- Multimodal Personalized Mobile Health Just-in-Time Adaptive Intervention for Occupational Stress Management: Pilot Study.JMIR mHealth and uHealth · 2026Trial
- Forecasting stress transitions using ecological momentary assessment data and machine learning.Internet interventions · 2026Article
- A Comparison of Self-Reports and Unobtrusive Multimodal Measures of Stress in a Realistic Simulated Task Environment.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Real-Time Stress Experiences and Physiological and Psychological Responses Among LGBTQ+ Young Adults: Findings from the Stress and Heart Pilot Study.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Cognitive biotypes identified through ECG-derived workload and behavioral accuracy.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Feeling Rested Improves Cognitive Performance Among University Students: Testing of a Novel Psychophysiological Measurement System.Brain sciences · 2026Article
- Vigilance and Well-Being in Daily Life: An Examination of Race Differences.Race and social problems · 2026Article
- Translation and psychometric validation of the Taiwanese daily stress inventory in a young university sample.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Do psychological flexibility and interparental mutually responsive orientation reduce postpartum parenting stress and coparenting difficulties?Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2025Article
- Observational
- Machine-learning detection of stress severity expressed on a continuous scale using acoustic, verbal, visual, and physiological data: lessons learned.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
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- Perceived Stress From Childhood to Adulthood and Cardiometabolic End Points in Young Adulthood: An 18-Year Prospective Study.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2024Article
- Detecting Prolonged Stress in Real Life Using Wearable Biosensors and Ecological Momentary Assessments: Naturalistic Experimental Study.Journal of medical Internet research · 2023Article
- The importance of high-quality partner support for reducing stress during pregnancy and postpartum bonding impairments.Archives of women's mental health · 2023Article
- Does anxiety explain why math-anxious people underperform in math?NPJ science of learning · 2023Article
- Recovery After Stress-Autonomic and Subjective Arousal in Individuals With Psychosis Compared to Healthy Controls.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2022Article
- Daily life after the death of a loved one: A systematic review of daily diary and ecological momentary assessment studies.International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHPArticle
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7 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundStress plays an important role in the development of mental illness, and an increasing number of studies is trying to detect moments of perceived stress in everyday life based on physiological data gathered using ambulatory devices. However, based on laboratory studies, there is only modest evidence for a relationship between self-reported stress and physiological ambulatory measures. This descriptive systematic review evaluates the evidence for studies investigating an association between self-reported stress and physiological measures under daily life conditions.
methodsThree databases were searched for articles assessing an association between self-reported stress and cardiovascular and skin conductance measures simultaneously over the course of at least a day.
resultsWe reviewed findings of 36 studies investigating an association between self-reported stress and cardiovascular measures with overall 135 analyses of associations between self-reported stress and cardiovascular measures. Overall, 35% of all analyses showed a significant or marginally significant association in the expected direction. The most consistent results were found for perceived stress, high-arousal negative affect scales, and event-related self-reported stress measures, and for frequency-domain heart rate variability physiological measures. There was much heterogeneity in measures and methods.
conclusionThese findings confirm that daily-life stress-dynamics are complex and require a better understanding. Choices in design and measurement seem to play a role. We provide some guidance for future studies.
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