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Negative emotions and acute physiological responses to stress

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Feldman, Pamela J., Cohen, Sheldon, Lepore, Stephen J., Matthews, Karen A., Kamarck, Thomas W., Marsland, Anna L.·1999·Annals of Behavioral Medicine

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One pathway through which stressors are thought to influence physiology is through their effects on emotion. We used meta-analytic statistical techniques with data from nine studies to test the effects of acute laboratory stressors (speech, star mirror-image tracing, handgrip) on emotional (undifferentiated negative emotion, anger, anxiety) and cardiovascular (CV) response. In all of the studies, participants responded to stressors with both increased CV response and increased negative emotion. Increases in negative emotion were associated with increases in CV response across tasks, however, these associations were small. The range of variance accounted for was between 2% and 12%. Thus, the contribution of negative emotion, as assessed in these studies, to physiological responses to acute laboratory stressors was limited. Although these results raise questions about the role of emotion in mediating stress-elicited physiological responses, the nature of the acute laboratory stress paradigm may contribute to the lack of a strong association.

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Authors
Feldman, P. J., Cohen, S., Lepore, S. J., Matthews, K. A., Kamarck, T. W., & Marsland, A. L.
Affiliations
  • Carnegie Mellon University (US)
  • City University of New York (US)
  • University of Pittsburgh (US)
  • University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (US)
Venue
Annals of Behavioral Medicine
Published
1999-09
Volume
21
Issue
3
Pages
216-222
ISSN
  • 0742-5554 (ISSN-L)
  • 0883-6612
  • 1532-4796
OpenAlex
W2134111903
Cited by
182
References
60
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0.22
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Annals of Behavioral Medicine (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • KiltHub Repository (submittedVersion)
  • KiltHub Repository
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health (2k05mh000721-11)
  • National Institute of Mental Health (T32 MH19953, T32MH019953, K05 MH00721)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Behavioral Neuroscience › Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Emotion and Mood Recognition
Keywords
negative emotions, acute stress, physiological stress response, cardiovascular response, anger, anxiety, speech stressor
MeSH terms
Acute Disease, Affect, Blood Pressure, Heart Rate, Humans, Speech, Stress, Psychological, Hand Strength

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