Relationships between respiratory sinus arrhythmia and stress in college students.
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The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between university students' respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) profiles and both retrospective and momentary ratings of stress. Participants were undergraduate students enrolled in an introductory health science course (N = 64). Participants provided RSA data at rest (tonic) and following an orthostatic challenge (phasic), completed the 10-item Perceived Stress Scale (PSS), and completed 6 daily ecological momentary assessments (EMA) of stress for 1 week. Higher tonic RSA was associated with lower perceived stress assessed via PSS and average EMA responses. Those with higher tonic RSA did not differ in their experience of stress across the week, whereas those with lower tonic RSA experienced increased stress across the week, and these trajectories varied as a function of phasic responses. These findings suggest a need for greater emphasis on behavioral strategies for maintaining and enhancing autonomic nervous system health among college students.
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“recent research documents that indices of autonomic state influenced the impact the pandemic on mental health (see Kolacz et al., 2020a), perceived stress in college students (Fanning et al., 2020), effectiveness of neurostimulation on abdominal pain (Kovacic et al., 2020), calming behavior in infants following the still face procedure (Kolacz et al., 2022), and protest behaviors in infants in day”
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- Authors
- Fanning, J., Silfer, J. L., Liu, H., Gauvin, L., Heilman, K. J., Porges, S. W., & Rejeski, W. J.
- Affiliations
- Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist (US)
- Wake Forest University (US)
- Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal (CA)
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- Corresponding author
- Fanning, J.
- Venue
- Journal of Behavioral Medicine
- Published
- 2019-10-12
- Volume
- 43
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 308-317
- ISSN
- 0160-7715 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-3521
- PMC
- PMC7071964
- OpenAlex
- W2979432981
- Cited by
- 21
- References
- 30
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 3 · 2019: 1
- FWCI
- 1.26
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Journal of Behavioral Medicine (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute on Aging (R21AG058249, P30AG021332)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Behavioral Neuroscience › Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Student Stress and Coping
- Keywords
- respiratory sinus arrhythmia, perceived stress, university students, autonomic nervous system, orthostatic challenge, ecological momentary assessment, stress trajectories, health sciences students
- MeSH terms
- Autonomic Nervous System, Female, Humans, Male, Retrospective Studies, Stress, Psychological, Students, Young Adult, Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia
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