Subjective, physiological, and behavioral effects of threat and challenge appraisal.

Tomaka, Joe, Blascovich, Jim, Kelsey, Robert M., Leitten, Christopher L.·1993·Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
DOI 10.1037//0022-3514.65.2.248

Abstract

The applicability of R. S. Lazarus and S. Folkman's (1984) cognitive appraisal model of stress was examined in 3 laboratory experiments involving the repeated performance of active (Studies 1, 2, and J) and passive (Study J) coping stress tasks (P. A. Obrist, 1981). Threat appraisals of upcoming coping tasks were positively related to Ss' self-reported task stress. Cardiac reactivity during active coping stressors was related positively to challenge appraisals and negatively to threat appraisals. Vascular reactivity, however, was related positively to threat appraisals and negatively to challenge appraisals

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Tomaka, J., Blascovich, J., Kelsey, R. M., & Leitten, C. L. (1993). Subjective, physiological, and behavioral effects of threat and challenge appraisal. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037//0022-3514.65.2.248

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