The effect of automobile driving on catecholamine and adrenocortical excretion

Bellet, Samuel; Roman, Laurian; Kostis, John B.

doi:10.1016/0002-9149(69)90430-5

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“…Studying driving phobia with our methods allowed us to examine physiological and endocrine activity in an ecologically valid context with minimal interference from physical exertion and postural changes that could confound results. Theoretically, other aspects of driving might elevate cortisol in normal drivers (41)(42)(43), but our use of a nonphobic control group allowed us to document phobia-specific elevations.…”

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“…A comparison group of individually matched nonphobic women was used to control for the effects of aspects of the driving experience not specific to anxiety (eg, heightened vigilance and muscular activity associated with steering and braking). This was important because driving has been found to produce an HPA response in professional bus drivers (41,42) and normal automobile drivers (as indexed by 11-hydroxycorticosteroid) (43). To control for habituation of environmental or task novelty effects (44) that might occur with repeated monitoring sessions in both fearful and nonfearful drivers (45), we had the 13 healthy controls come back for a second driving session.…”

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Salivary Cortisol Response During Exposure Treatment in Driving Phobics

Alpers

Abelson

Wilhelm

et al. 2003

Psychosomatic Medicine

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Salivary Cortisol Response During Exposure Treatment in Driving Phobics

Alpers

Abelson

Wilhelm

et al. 2003

Psychosomatic Medicine

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“…Earlier experiments, focusing on the consequences of short-term exposure to either simulated or actual road situations, found that driving behavior is often accompanied by elevated heart rate (Simonson, Baker, Burns, Keiper, Schmitt, & Stackhouse, 1968;Taggart, Gibbon, & Somerville, 1969;Hunt & May, Note 1), skin conductance (Heimstra, 1970;Hulbert, 1957), and catecholamine secretion (Bellet, Roman, & Kostis, 1969). Although these studies clearly document the physiological arousal sometimes associated with driving, they provide no direct evidence regarding the psychological, physical, and behavioral residues of long-term exposure to traffic congestion.…”

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Traffic congestion, Type A behavior, and stress.

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Novaco²,

Stokols³

et al. 1978

Journal of Applied Psychology

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A quasi-experimental study was conducted to assess the effects of routine exposure to traffic congestion on the mood, physiology, and task performance of automobile commuters. Traffic congestion was conceptualized as an environmental stressor that impedes one's movement between two or more points. Sixty-one male and 39 female industrial employees were assigned to low-, medium-, or high-impedance groups on the basis of the distance and duration of their commute and were classified as either Type A or Type B on a measure of coronary-prone behavior. As expected, subjective reports of traffic congestion and annoyance were greater among high-and medium-impedance commuters than among low-impedance individuals. Also, commuting distance, commuting time, travel speed, and number of months enroute were significantly correlated with systolic and diastolic blood pressure. Contrary to prediction, mediumimpedance As and high-impedance Bs exhibited the highest levels of systolic blood pressure and the lowest levels of frustration tolerance among all experimental groups. The results were discussed in terms of the degree of congruity between commuters' expectancies and experiences of travel constraints.

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“…Driving has been consistently demonstrated to elicit elevations in catecholamine excretion (29)(30)(31)(32). The findings presented in this paper, together with those reported previously, suggest that professional drivers show a diastolic hyperresponsiveness both to exercise and to work-related stressors.…”

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confidence: 99%