The interplay of self-critical rumination and resting heart rate variability on subjective well-being and somatic symptom distress: A prospective study

Is it a vicious circle and for whom? The reciprocal association between rumination and somatic symptoms and moderation by stress: A daily diary study among Chinese college students

“…Our results are consistent with previous longitudinal studies with assessments over two waves (Harding et al, 2015; Kocsel, Köteles, et al, 2022), which have shown that greater rumination predicts future somatic symptoms. Moreover, a recent study using a daily diary design examined whether rumination influenced somatic symptoms in social workers, though did not test for any impact of somatic symptoms on subsequent rumination (Eggli et al, 2021).…”

“…This decision is consistent with previous studies examining daily reporting of COVID-related stress (Xia et al, 2021) and daily hassles (Tran et al, 2021) that captured overall cumulative stress experiences rather than differentiating between weekdays and weekends. Besides, other confounding variables, such as personality traits (Denovan et al, 2019) and chronic health status (Kocsel, Köteles, et al, 2022), may also affect the association between rumination and somatic symptoms but were not measured in the present study. Future studies are warranted to consider these potential confounders.…”

“…Previous cross‐sectional studies support a positive correlation between rumination and somatic symptoms (Kocsel, Horváth, et al, 2022; Lohaus et al, 2013) but cannot provide evidence for any temporal association. Existing longitudinal studies usually treated somatic symptoms measured at the later wave as the outcome, providing support for a predictive role of rumination (Harding et al, 2015; Kocsel, Köteles, et al, 2022). It remains unknown, though, whether somatic symptoms predict subsequent rumination.…”

Effects of fear of cancer recurrence on subjective physical and mental health in breast cancer patients: The intermediary role of heart rate variability

“…Compared with those of patients in the low HRV group (SDNN<20 ms), the FCR and psychological distress scores of patients in the high HRV group were lower (Table 2, 35 (25,44) versus 40 (32,47), 4 (3, 6) versus 7 (4, 8); z = −2.388, z = −3.928; p = 0.017, p < 0.001, respectively). BC patients with low HRV had lower subscales scores for the SF-36 but no significant differences in SF.…”

“…We found that psychological distress was negatively correlated with RMSSD, SDNN, and HF‐HRV. A study suggests that higher parasympathetic nerve activation (as an indicator of higher HRV) was associated with fewer physical symptoms 32 . Another study showed that compared with the healthy control group, pathological apprehensores had less sympathetic nerve excitement and parasympathetic nerve activation when they were exposed to fear 33 .…”