期刊
JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS
卷 320, 期 -, 页码 725-734出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2022.09.100
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Emotional reactivity; Affective response; Late adolescent; Parasympathetic nervous system; Respiratory sinus arrhythmia; Young adult
The study found that higher resting RSA can enhance the emotional response to social-evaluative stress in adolescents, possibly due to active engagement and active response to stimuli. Higher resting RSA may promote flexible emotional responses to the social environment, thereby improving mental health.
Background: Higher 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.Method: A sample of 89 participants (Mage = 18.36, SD = 0.51; 58.43 % female) provided measures of RSA at rest and then completed the Trier Social Stress Test, a standardized laboratory-based social-evaluative stress task that involves public speaking and mental arithmetic while being evaluated by two confederate judges. Participants reported a variety of emotions (e.g., negative emotion, positive emotion) at baseline and immediately after the stress task. Results: Participants 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.Conclusions: Findings 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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