The Role of Rumination in Recovery from Reactivity: Cardiovascular Consequences of Emotional States
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Objective While most investigations of the link between blood pressure responses and later disease have focused on acute reactivity during stressful tasks, there is some theoretical and empirical reason to believe that examining recovery and later re-creations of BP responses may also be useful. Two experiments explored situational determinants of sustained BP elevations, examining whether the extent of recovery and the ability to later mentally recreate the response are influenced by the magnitude or emotionality of the initial task and also whether preventing rumination after a stressor has ended speeds recovery. Method Experiment 1, with 72 normotensive male and female undergraduates, examined BP and heart rate before, during, and after a task and also before, during, and after the mental re-creation of that task. Four tasks were used, designed to produce high initial reactivity with an emotional component (mental arithmetic with harassment), low reactivity with emotion (shock avoidance), high reactivity without emotion (physical exercise), or low reactivity without emotion (cold pressor). Experiment 2, with 20 normotensive male and female undergraduates, compared the cardiovascular recovery of persons who were either given a distractor task or just sat quietly immediately after a mental arithmetic task. Results Study 1 revealed that only the emotional tasks were associated with delayed BP recovery and elevations during later rumination. Blood pressure during recovery and…
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- Authors
- Glynn, L. M.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Irvine (US)
- Corresponding author
- Glynn, L. M.
- ORCID
- Glynn, L. M.
- Venue
- Psychosomatic Medicine
- Published
- 2002-09-01
- Volume
- 64
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 714-726
- ISSN
- 0033-3174 (ISSN-L)
- 1534-7796
- OpenAlex
- W2040404653
- Cited by
- 294
- References
- 7
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- FWCI
- 5.45
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Psychosomatic Medicine (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Blood Pressure and Hypertension Studies
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Cardiac Health and Mental Health
- Keywords
- rumination, blood pressure recovery, cardiovascular reactivity, emotional stress, heart rate, distractor task, mental arithmetic, shock avoidance, cardiovascular risk
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Cognition, Emotions, Female, Heart Rate, Humans, Hypertension, Male, Memory, Neuropsychological Tests, Surveys and Questionnaires, Random Allocation, Reaction Time, Stress, Psychological, Exercise, Recovery of Function
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