Associations between emotion reactivity to daily interpersonal stress and acute social‐evaluative stress during late adolescence

Rahal, Danny; Bower, Julienne E.; Fuligni, Andrew J.; Chiang, Jessica J.

doi:10.1002/smi.3307

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“…The TSST may not be accurately representative of naturally occurring stressors commonly confronted in everyday life, and use of daily stressors and momentary reports of NA could provide a potentially different conception of NA reactivity. Nevertheless, the TSST has standard usage in stress research, and recent research has begun to suggest the ecological validity of the TSST, with a significant association between the TSST and naturalistic stressor on individual affect changes (Henze et al, 2017; Rahal et al, 2023). Future research could consider ecological momentary assessment approaches to help determine whether current findings would extend to everyday NA reactivity to daily stressors.…”

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Low early life socioeconomic status and susceptibility to the common cold in adulthood: The moderating role of negative affective reactivity.

Jang,

Lam,

Chiang

2024

Health Psychology

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Objective: Socioeconomic disadvantage during childhood and adolescence is associated with higher risk for many physical health problems, including infectious disease, throughout the lifespan. Greater negative affective (NA) reactivity has shown similar links to greater risk for physical health conditions and altered patterns of biological functioning associated with acute respiratory infection as socioeconomic disadvantage; yet their interactive effects on physical health outcomes have not been examined. Thus, the present study examined whether NA reactivity accentuated the link between early socioeconomic disadvantage and susceptibility to the common cold. Method: Participants were 212 adults (42% female, 18-55 years old) who completed measures of childhood socioeconomic status (SES; parental home ownership) and were subsequently exposed to a virus that causes the common cold. Participants then remained quarantined for 5 days, during which multiple indicators of viral infection and clinical illness were assessed. Before and after quarantine, participants completed a laboratory stress task to assess NA reactivity. Results: NA reactivity moderated the relationship between parental home ownership and clinical cold diagnosis in adulthood (b = −0.11, p = .018), such that fewer years of parental home ownership was associated with increased odds for developing a cold only among adults who had greater NA reactivity (OR = 0.89, 95% confidence interval, CI [0.82, 0.96]), but not among those who had lower NA reactivity (OR = 1.01, 95% CI [0.94, 1.09]). Conclusions: These findings suggest that how individuals negatively react to psychosocial stressors in adulthood may exacerbate the impact of childhood SES on acute infection susceptibility. Public Significance StatementEarly socioeconomic disadvantage increases risk for poor health across the lifespan, but some individuals may be more vulnerable than others. Current study results showed that socioeconomic disadvantage during childhood and adolescence was associated with greater susceptibility to developing a cold after viral exposure among participants who had greater negative affect responses to stress. These findings underscore the importance of considering factors that may increase sensitivity to the influences of socioeconomic disadvantage on health and have potential implications for informing prevention and intervention efforts.

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confidence: 99%