Not I, but she: The beneficial effects of self-distancing on challenge/threat cardiovascular responses

Streamer, Lindsey; Seery, Mark D.; Kondrak, Cheryl L.; Lamarche, Veronica M.; Saltsman, Thomas L.

doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2016.11.008

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“…This theoretical framework has proven useful in describing and predicting behavior across a wide variety of motivated performance tasks (e.g., Alter, Aronson, Darley, Rodriguez, & Ruble, 2010;Blascovich, Mendes, Hunter, Lickel, & Kowai-Bell, 2001;Brimmell, Parker, Furley, & Moore, 2018;Drach-Zahavy & Erez, 2002;Harvey, Nathens, Bandiera, & LeBlanc, 2010;Jamieson, Mendes, Blackstock, & Schmader, 2010;Mendes, Blascovich, Lickel, & Hunter, 2002;Mendes, Blascovich, Major, & Seery, 2001;Mendes, Gray, Mendoza-Denton, Major, & Epel, 2007;Quigley et al, 2002;Skinner & Brewer, 2002;Streamer, Seery, Kondrak, Lamarche, & Saltsman, 2017;Zilka, Rahimi, & Cohen, 2019). However, early adoption of a dichotomous challenge/threat approach led some investigators to assume that the physiological reactivity of all individuals in a sample can be simply categorized into one of these two orthogonal biopsychological states.…”

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Physiological indices of challenge and threat: A data‐driven investigation of autonomic nervous system reactivity during an active coping stressor task

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We utilized a data‐driven, unsupervised machine learning approach to examine patterns of peripheral physiological responses during a motivated performance context across two large, independent data sets, each with multiple peripheral physiological measures. Results revealed that patterns of cardiovascular response commonly associated with challenge and threat states emerged as two of the predominant patterns of peripheral physiological responding within both samples, with these two patterns best differentiated by reactivity in cardiac output, pre‐ejection period, interbeat interval, and total peripheral resistance. However, we also identified a third, relatively large group of apparent physiological nonresponders who exhibited minimal reactivity across all physiological measures in the motivated performance context. This group of nonresponders was best differentiated from the others by minimal increases in electrodermal activity. We discuss implications for identifying and characterizing this third group of individuals in future research on physiological patterns of challenge and threat.

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Physiological indices of challenge and threat: A data‐driven investigation of autonomic nervous system reactivity during an active coping stressor task

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“…We capitalised on this opportunity by examining whether third‐person self‐talk, a simple linguistic technique that promotes emotion regulation (e.g. Dolcos & Albarracin, ; Kross et al., ; Moser et al., ; Nook, Schleider, & Somerville, ; Streamer, Seery, Kondrack, Lamarche, & Saltsman, ; Zell, Warriner, & Albarracin, ), could “nudge” people living in the United States into reasoning about Ebola more rationally as concerns about this issue swelled.…”

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“…“Why am I feeling this way?”), enhances people's ability to control their thoughts, feelings, and behavior under stress (e.g. Kross et al., ; Moser et al., ; Nook et al., ; Streamer et al., ) and facilitates wise, emotionally intelligent reasoning (Grossmann & Kross, ).…”

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Third‐Person Self‐Talk Reduces Ebola Worry and Risk Perception by Enhancing Rational Thinking

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“…The self‐distancing studies have long been concerned with the effect on the reduction of negative emotion. It is only recently that researchers have begun to explore the positive outcomes related to individuals’ well‐being (Bruehlman‐Senecal et al, ; Streamer, Seery, Kondrak, Lamarche, & Saltsman, ). Our findings imply that the benefit of the self‐distancing strategy is not limited to alleviating distress but, more importantly, it has many positive outcomes (e.g., positive mood and MIL).…”

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Restoring meaning in life by meaning‐focused coping: The role of self‐distancing

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Meaning-focused coping is an important coping strategy in the face of stressful life events. The "construal level theory" and recent research suggest that reflecting on a stressful situation from a self-distanced stance (temporal or spatial) allows individuals to find meaning in negative life events; however, its long-term effects have not yet been explored. The present research had two main goals: (1) to determine whether distanced meaning making enhances meaning in life and (2) to explore the underlying emotional mechanism of this effect. We hypothesized that positive affect (relative to negative affect) may play a more important role in the relationship between self-distanced meaning making and meaning in life. A total of 136 university students were recruited as participants in two studies. The participants were prospectively instructed to make meaning of a highly stressful event.They were randomly assigned to one of three conditions: (a) self-immersed, (b) temporally distanced, or (c) spatially distanced.The findings indicate that both the temporally and spatially distanced perspectives in the meaning-making process can enhance meaning in life and that they do so by promoting positive affect. Implications for future research on meaning-focused coping and self-distancing are discussed.

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Not I, but she: The beneficial effects of self-distancing on challenge/threat cardiovascular responses

Cited by 27 publications

References 37 publications

Physiological indices of challenge and threat: A data‐driven investigation of autonomic nervous system reactivity during an active coping stressor task

Physiological indices of challenge and threat: A data‐driven investigation of autonomic nervous system reactivity during an active coping stressor task

Third‐Person Self‐Talk Reduces Ebola Worry and Risk Perception by Enhancing Rational Thinking

Restoring meaning in life by meaning‐focused coping: The role of self‐distancing

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