Chapter 6 Telic Versus Paratelic Dominance: Personality Moderator of Biochemical Responses to Stress

Dobbin, James P.; Martin, Rod A.

doi:10.1016/s0166-4115(08)60557-9

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“…The propensity to spend more time in one of the metamotivational dominances has also been shown to involve physiological differences (Dobbin & Martin, 1988), particularly in hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) hormones such as cortisol. In the study by Dobbin and Martin (1988), participants were asked to describe the most stressful event or situation that they had recently experienced in their lives and to indicate whether this event had been resolved or was still ongoing. Participants with resolved stressful life events had high salivary cortisol levels if they scored paratelic-dominant, but particularly low cortisol levels if they scored telic-dominant.…”

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Motivation, Stress, Anxiety, and Cortisol Responses in Elite Paragliders

Filaire¹,

Rouveix²,

Alix³

et al. 2007

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In this study metamotivational dominance (measured with the Telic Dominance Scale), precompetition anxiety (evaluated with the CSAI-2), perceived stress (measured with the Perceived Stress Scale), and cortisol responses by 10 paragliding competitors prior to and following a paragliding competition were examined. Saliva was collected for each subject for cortisol analysis on eight occasions: during a resting day (baseline values) and prior to and after competition. Analysis indicated subjects were all paratelic-dominant (characterized by a desire for high arousal, a focus on the present). Scores were high on the Perceived Stress Scale and cognitive nxiety (a telic emotion). Cortisol values showed a significant increase early on the day of the competition and remained elevated all the day, with highest concentrations at the start. Participants' cognitive anxiety and cortisol responses were significantly correlated .79 just before the jump and the direction of the cognitive anxiety was rated as facilitative of performance. These results may suggest that the more frequently the subject is playful in life, the more cortisol they produce when aroused in a less frequent telic state.

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