Social support, social participation, and cardiovascular reactivity to stress in the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) study

Creaven, Ann‐Marie; Higgins, Noelle; Ginty, Annie T.; Gallagher, Stephen

doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2020.107921

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“…As stated by Allen (2013), "Indeed, one wonders how many 'file cabinet' data sets are out there that were not published or even submitted for publication due to not getting the expected exaggerated reactivity to be associated with a variable of interest" (p. 98). Of the 313 publications using MIDUS biomarker data from 2005 to 2020, to our knowledge, only three studies (Coyle et al, 2020;Creaven et al, 2020;Lin et al, 2014) used cardiovascular reactivity. Likewise, the Dunedin longitudinal study (Poulton et al, 2015) collected cardiovascular reactivity at age 32 years, but-as described in the introduction-has not published any empirical articles on these data to date.…”

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Lower Cardiovascular Reactivity Is Associated With More Childhood Adversity and Poorer Midlife Health: Replicated Findings From the Dunedin and MIDUS Cohorts

Bourassa

Moffitt

Harrington

et al. 2021

Clinical Psychological Science

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Cardiovascular reactivity has been proposed as a biomarker linking childhood adversity and poorer health. In the current study, we examined the association of childhood adversity, cardiovascular reactivity, and health in the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study ( n = 922) and Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) studies ( n = 1,015). In both studies, participants who experienced more childhood adversity had lower cardiovascular reactivity. In addition, people with lower cardiovascular reactivity had poorer self-reported health and greater inflammation. Dunedin participants with lower cardiovascular reactivity were aging biologically faster, and MIDUS participants with lower heart rate reactivity had increased risk of early mortality. Cardiovascular reactivity was not associated with hypertension in either study. Results were partially accounted for by greater reactivity among more conscientious, less depressed, and higher functioning participants. These results suggest that people who experienced childhood adversity have a blunted physiological response, which is associated with poorer health. The findings highlight the importance of accounting for individual differences when assessing cardiovascular reactivity using cognitive stressor tasks.

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Lower Cardiovascular Reactivity Is Associated With More Childhood Adversity and Poorer Midlife Health: Replicated Findings From the Dunedin and MIDUS Cohorts

Bourassa

Moffitt

Harrington

et al. 2021

Clinical Psychological Science

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“…Personality traits high on negative affectivity such as neuroticism, trait anxiety are associated with decreased cardiovascular reactivity to psychosocial stress (Chida & Hamer, 2008). Attenuated cardiovascular stress reactivity is also related to inhibited social involvement (Creaven, Higgins, Ginty, & Gallagher, 2020; John‐Henderson, Counts, Sanders, & Ginty, 2019). These evidences point towards Type D personality, characterized by high levels of negative affectivity and social inhibition, is likely to be associated with blunted cardiovascular reactivity to psychosocial stress.…”

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Type D personality and blunted cardiovascular stress reactivity: Role of task engagement

Lü

Yao

2020

British J Health Psychol

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Objective. The underlying mechanisms for linking Type D personality to cardiovascular stress reactivity remain unknown. The present study explored the possible mediating role of cognitive appraisals of stress and/or motivational levels involved in stress in the association between Type D personality and cardiovascular stress reactivity.Design. Cross-sectional.Methods. Chinese version of Type D Scale-14 was administered to 154 undergraduate students who underwent psychosocial stress during which the physiological data were continuously monitored, and cognitive appraisals indexed by a ratio of perceived stress demands to perceived personal resources and motivational levels engaged in stress indexed by self-reported stress task engagement were immediately assessed after the stress exposure.Results. Results indicated that Type D personality was related to blunted HR, SBP, and DBP reactivity to stress. Self-reported stress task engagement mediated the relation between Type D personality and blunted cardiovascular stress reactivity. The mediation effect of cognitive appraisals on this link was non-significant.Conclusions. These findings suggest that motivational disengagement in the psychosocial stress task might be an important pathway linking Type D personality to blunted cardiovascular stress reactivity. Statement of contributionWhat is already known on this subject?Type D personality is a high-risk personality trait that leads to cardiovascular diseases. Exaggerated or blunted cardiovascular reactivity to stress is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease.Type D personality is associated with exaggerated/blunted stress cardiovascular reactivity, which is one of the physiological pathways that leads to cardiovascular disease.

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“…For ease of interpretation, and consistent with previous research examining MIDUS data (e.g., Bibbey et al, 2013; Coyle et al, 2020; Creaven et al, 2020), CVR was computed as the difference between average baseline measures and average stress measures (across the two stress tasks). Prior to the main analyses, a series of repeated-measures t tests were conducted to test for differences between baseline measures of psychological stress levels and reported levels of stress during the task, as well as differences between baseline and task measures of SBP, DBP, and HR.…”

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Social integration: Implications for the association between childhood trauma and stress responsivity.

McMahon¹,

Griffin²,

Borinca³

et al. 2024

Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy

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Objective: Childhood trauma is linked to the dysregulation of physiological responses to stress, particularly lower cardiovascular reactivity (CVR) to acute stress. The mechanisms that explain this association, however, are not yet fully understood. Method: Using secondary data from the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) Biomarker Project (N = 1,148; n = 652 females), we examine whether social integration can help explain the association between childhood trauma and lower CVR. Participants completed a standardized laboratory stress paradigm which involved completing executive functioning (Stroop) and mental arithmetic (MATH) tasks. Cardiovascular measurements were continuously assessed using electrocardiogram (ECG) and Finometer equipment. The Social Well-Being Scale (Keyes, 1998) and the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ; Bernstein et al., 2003) measured social integration and trauma, respectively. Results: Regression analyses demonstrated that childhood trauma was associated with lower systolic (SBP; b = À.14, p , .001) and diastolic (DBP; b = À.11, p , .001) blood pressure reactivity but not heart rate (HR) reactivity. Mediation analyses, using Hayes PROCESS Model 4, showed that higher levels of trauma were associated with less social integration and in turn linked to lower reactivity across all biological indices. Moreover, sensitivity analyses showed that this indirect effect via social integration was evident for emotional and physical abuse, emotional and physical neglect, but not sexual abuse. Conclusion: Overall, the results indicated that dysregulated cardiovascular stress responses owing to childhood trauma may be shaped by a lack of social integration. The implications of this, as well as the findings for the individual types of trauma, are discussed. Clinical Impact StatementThese findings highlight the importance of social integration for the health of those made vulnerable by adverse childhood experiences. This knowledge offers a potentially useful and inexpensive approach to support trauma-exposed individuals, potentially reducing some of its longer-lasting impacts on physical health. Although experimental research is needed to provide evidence for socially-based interventions for those who have experienced trauma, this research sets the foundation for further investigation, and points to the implications for policy and practice.

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Social support, social participation, and cardiovascular reactivity to stress in the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) study

Cited by 11 publications

References 49 publications

Lower Cardiovascular Reactivity Is Associated With More Childhood Adversity and Poorer Midlife Health: Replicated Findings From the Dunedin and MIDUS Cohorts

Lower Cardiovascular Reactivity Is Associated With More Childhood Adversity and Poorer Midlife Health: Replicated Findings From the Dunedin and MIDUS Cohorts

Type D personality and blunted cardiovascular stress reactivity: Role of task engagement

Social integration: Implications for the association between childhood trauma and stress responsivity.

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