ArticleJournal of affective disorders2023
Resting respiratory sinus arrhythmia is related to emotion reactivity to social-evaluative stress.
Article in Journal of affective disorders, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- An Extension to the stress-buffering model: Timing of support across the lifecourse.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2024Article
- Immigration stress and maternal sensitivity in a Mexican immigrant sample: The role of parasympathetic activity and familism value.Cultural diversity & ethnic minority psychology · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundHigher resting parasympathetic nervous system activity, as indexed by respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), has been considered a marker of emotion regulatory capacity and is consistently related to better mental health. However, it remains unclear how resting RSA relates to emotion reactivity to acute social-evaluative stress, a potent predictor of depression and other negative outcomes.
methodA sample of 89 participants (M
resultsParticipants with higher resting RSA showed greater increases in negative emotion, guilt, depressive emotion, and anger, as well as greater decreases in positive emotion after the task. LIMITATION: Data were limited to a relatively small sample of late adolescents, who may be particularly responsive to social-evaluative stress compared to adults.
conclusionsFindings suggest that higher resting RSA may enhance emotion responses to social-evaluative stress in adolescents, potentially due to active engagement and responding to rather than passively viewing stimuli. Higher resting RSA may promote flexible emotion responses to the social environment, which may account for associations between higher RSA and better mental health.
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