Openness to experience and adapting to change: Cardiovascular stress habituation to change in acute stress exposure

Ó’Súilleabháin, Páraic S; Howard, Siobhán; Hughes, Brian M.

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“…First, the current passive stress task was successful in eliciting a notable cardiovascular stress response. Furthermore, participants' psychological experience of the task (in terms of PA, perceived stress, and anxiety) was no different to their experience during a well-established active stress task (Hughes & Callinan, 2007;O'Súilleabháin et al, 2018). Second, the task elicited a pattern of cardiovascular responding consistent with other more traditional passive stress tasks.…”

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“…For the present study, forty neutral-emotion words, and forty negative-words, were chosen from the Affective Norms for English Words (ANEW; Bradley & Lang, 1999); a set of words rated in terms of valence (negative/positive emotions elicited) and arousal (high, low).Words were selected using previously reported cutoffs for arousal and valence; words were deemed negative if they had an arousal value greater than 6.00 and a valence value less than 4.00, and neutral if the arousal value was less than 5.45 and the valence value was between 4.00 and 6.00 (Scott, O'Donnell, Leuthold, & Sereno, 2009). This format of speech task has previously been shown to reliably elicit activity of the cardiovascular system (e.g., Hughes & Callinan, 2007;O'Súilleabháin, Howard, & Hughes, 2018).…”

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Establishing the validity of a novel passive stress task

Griffin

Howard

2020

Psychophysiology

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Laboratory tasks used to elicit a cardiovascular stress response in the laboratory can involve either active or passive coping. However, in previous work, passive stress tasks often incorporate a distinct physical stress element, such as the handgrip or cold pressor task, meaning observed changes in cardiovascular parameters may be the result of the physical element of the stressor rather than truly reflecting psychological stress. The present study aimed to establish the validity of a psychological passive stressor; one more analogous to active tasks than those previously employed in laboratory studies. Twenty-six young, healthy adults completed a speech task in the laboratory following a resting baseline period. Twelve months later, they were invited back to the laboratory and watched the video recording of their speech. Analyses confirmed that while both tasks elicited significant SBP and DBP change (all ps < .001), only the active task was associated with HR and CO reactivity (both ps < .001), while only the passive task was associated with TPR reactivity (p = .028). Furthermore, the passive stressor was associated with a mixed hemodynamic profile, whereas the active stressor was associated with a clear myocardial profile.This study confirms that watching a video recording of oneself complete a speech task is associated with a more vascular response profile, a response associated with passive coping contexts.Validity of a passive stressor 3

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Establishing the validity of a novel passive stress task

Griffin

Howard

2020

Psychophysiology

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“…As such, a naturally selected trait such as openness should be of crucial importance to an individual’s responsivity to stress experiences. As suggested by Ó Súilleabháin and colleagues [ 14 ] persons highest in openness should possess the required ability to stimulate short-term stress responsivity, while demonstrating an ability to habituate across time.…”

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“…Indeed, when individuals are presented with similar stress exposures, patterns of cardiovascular stress adaptation have been observed (e.g., [ 29 , 30 ]). Recent research has also observed that patterns of cardiovascular adaptation can occur across a change in stress exposures [ 14 ].…”

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Openness to experience and stress responsivity: An examination of cardiovascular and underlying hemodynamic trajectories within an acute stress exposure

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The personality trait openness to experience has been implicated in health, and in particular cardiovascular wellbeing. In a sample of 62 healthy young female adults, the role of openness in cardiovascular responsivity during a stress exposure was examined. Traditionally, methodologies have averaged a stress exposure into a single reading. This may be limited in that it does not consider patterns of cardiovascular adaptation within a stress exposure. Continuous cardiovascular data were reduced to mean 10 second readings, with phases determined through examinations of shifts in responsivity between each 10 second pairing. Analyses revealed a significant linear interaction for openness across the entire exposure for systolic blood pressure, and cardiac output. A significant between-subjects effect for heart rate also emerged. Contrary to their lower counterparts, those highest in openness exhibited an increasingly myocardial hemodynamic response profile throughout the exposure. Comparisons of responsivity suggests adaptive stress response trajectories for those highest in openness. This study also provides evidence that an attenuation of myocardial responsivity may underpin blunted responsivity. This study provides a potential mechanism in reported openness-health associations.

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“…Besides, the dynamics of these indices agreed with the behavioral effects of habituation. The intensity of habituation effects assessed by heart rate (HR) changes, systolic and diastolic pressure directly correlated with the indices of openness to a new experience evaluated on the basis of the questionnaire [7].…”

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Dynamics of Stress Activation in Repeated Stress Conditions in Experiment

Bakhchina¹,

Laukka²,

Парин³

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Sovrem Tehnol Med

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The aim of the study was to analyze the dynamics of stress-specific indices of the body functional state, i.e. the level of catecholamines in blood plasma and spectral indices of heart rate variability (HRV) in repeated immobilization stress for identifying the effects of habituation. Materials and Methods. The jugular veins of the rats (Long-Evans, n=6) were catheterized before the experiment. For immobilization, the animals were fixed mildly in a special hammock for 30 min daily during 5 days. In the process of rat immobilization as well as for 30 min before and 60 min after immobilization under the normal conditions in the home cage, ECG was noninvasively recorded for a subsequent HRV analysis based on the spectral indices. On experimental days 1, 3, and 5, blood was collected 30 min before immobilization (stage 1), 5 min after it (stage 2), at the end of immobilization (stage 3), and 30 min after the end of the immobilization period (stage 4) to test the concentration of catecholamines in blood plasma. Results. The effects of habituation to immobilization were found in the dynamics of catecholamine levels in blood plasma, heart rate, and HRV. The concentration of adrenaline and noradrenaline increased statistically significantly in the period of immobilization on the first experimental day and did not change significantly on the following days. Heart rate decreased significantly at stages 3 and 4 of the experiment (free behavior in the home cage after immobilization) on day 5 and remained at the initial high level on experimental days 1 and 3. The total power of the HRV spectrum statistically significantly decreased in the immobilization period on all experimental days. On day 1, HRV remained reduced till stage 4 of the experiment. On days 3 and 5, the total power of the HRV spectrum was restored after immobilization up to the initial level by stage 4 of the experiment. Conclusion. Five-day exposure of the animals to the repeated immobilization stress in a special hammock designed for their fixation in electrophysiological experiments resulted in habituation which is demonstrated by the dynamics of catecholamine level in the blood and HRV. The data obtained showed that the effects of habituation are displayed not only by the reduction of the stress activation intensity but by the decrease of its duration as well.

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Openness to experience and adapting to change: Cardiovascular stress habituation to change in acute stress exposure

Cited by 30 publications

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Establishing the validity of a novel passive stress task

Establishing the validity of a novel passive stress task

Openness to experience and stress responsivity: An examination of cardiovascular and underlying hemodynamic trajectories within an acute stress exposure

Dynamics of Stress Activation in Repeated Stress Conditions in Experiment

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