Understanding depressive symptoms through psychological traits and physiological stress reactivity

Määttänen, Ilmari; Martikainen, Joni; Henttonen, Pentti; Väliaho, Julius; Thibault, Maisa; Palomäki, Jussi

doi:10.1080/23311908.2019.1575654

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“…In order to substantiate these theoretical considerations and to understand the contextual relationships, it is necessary to collect different physiological parameters. This corresponds to Määttänen and colleagues [ 76 ] who suspect situational changes in physiological parameters underlying depressive symptoms. Another idea is that the negative association of physical activity with depressive symptoms is also influenced by the social interactions [ 38 ] that occur during physical activities reducing social isolation.…”

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“…For example, neuroticism has been related to a disproportionate negative affectivity [ 30 ] and longer lasting recovery in response to stress (e.g., as indicated by cortisol release [ 78 ];). Thus, the collection of physiological parameters such as heart rate variability in follow-up studies could be beneficial for the investigation of individual depressive symptoms, as suggested by Määttänen and colleagues [ 76 ].…”

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The role of personality traits and social support in relations of health-related behaviours and depressive symptoms

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Background Previous evidence has suggested that physically inactive individuals and extensive media users are at high risk for experiencing depressive symptoms. We examined personality traits and perceived social support as potential moderators of this association. Personality and perceived social support were included as two of the most frequently considered variables when determining predispositioning factors for media use phenomena also discussed in relation to physical activity. Methods We analysed cross-sectional data from 1402 adults (18–31 years old) who participated in a national health survey in Germany (KiGGS, Study on the health of children and adolescents in Germany, wave 2). The data included one-week accelerometer assessments as objective indicators of physical activity, self-reported media use, depressive symptoms, perceived social support and Big 5 personality traits. An elastic net regression model was fit with depressive symptoms as outcome. Ten-fold cross-validation was implemented. Results Amongst the main effects, we found that high media use was positively correlated with depressive symptoms, whereas physical activity was not correlated. Looking at support and individual differences as moderators, revealed that PC use was more strongly correlated with depressive symptoms in cases of low levels of perceived social support. Positive associations of social media use with depressive symptoms were more pronounced, whereas negative associations of moderate to vigorous physical activity with depressive symptoms were less pronounced in extraverts than they were in introverts. Conclusions Results highlight the importance of considering individual factors for deriving more valid recommendations on protective health behaviours.

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The role of personality traits and social support in relations of health-related behaviours and depressive symptoms

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“…Our aim is to explore whether the mindfulness intervention has a significant effect on the automatic nervous system in adolescence that can be detected with psychophysiological measures. Social and cognitive stress were induced by tasks that are loosely based on tasks commonly used in studies on physical (Carson et al, 2017; Määttänen et al, 2020) and mental health issues (Määttänen et al, 2019; Schwerdtfeger & Rosenkaimer, 2011).…”

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Pilot study on students’ stress reactivity after mindfulness intervention compared to relaxation control group.

Lassander¹,

Hintsanen²,

Ravaja³

et al. 2022

International Journal of Stress Management

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The current pilot study examines the effects of a mindfulness intervention versus relaxation-based active control on psychophysiological reactivity measured by heart rate (HR), high-frequency heart rate variability (HF-HRV), skin conductance level (SCL), and number of skin conductance responses (SCR) in adolescents. A total of 110 students, ages 12 and 15, participated from four schools. The conditions of a 9-week mindfulness intervention or a relaxation-based active control were randomly assigned to schools. At the baseline (preintervention), participants completed a test protocol with three different tasks: an arithmetic task, a minimal stress task, and a social stress-inducing speech task, divided into argue, oppose, and comment subtasks. The test protocol was repeated postintervention at 9 weeks and followed up at 26 weeks. For the speech task (oppose), the number of SCRs increased in the control group during both (9-week and 26-week) follow-ups, but stayed at the same level in the intervention group (i.e., the stress response in the control group increased). Additionally, HR and SCL reactivity were close to significance, demonstrating an increase in the control group and increased stress. There were no significant differences in HR, HF-HRV, and SCL between the intervention and control groups. The results of this pilot study suggest that in a highly stressful social situation, mindfulness, compared to the active control, might have a subtle effect in lowering sympathetically driven physiological stress reactivity. Other measures show either no effects or tentative findings that should be addressed in future studies with larger samples.

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“…As it has been previously found that personality traits correlate with stress physiology [ 23 ], it may be relevant to analyse ECG as well as variables related to body size. Thus, we included some additional measures of stress physiology to our analyses in order to figure out if the possible BP trait or traits would be strongly associated with stress reactivity or even possibly caused by it.…”

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Evidence for a Behaviourally Measurable Perseverance Trait in Humans

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Makkonen

Jokela

et al. 2021

Behavioral Sciences

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The aim was to create and study a possible behavioural measure for trait(s) in humans that reflect the ability and motivation to continue an unpleasant behaviour, i.e., behavioural perseverance or persistence (BP). We utilised six different tasks with 54 subjects to measure the possible BP trait(s): cold pressor task, hand grip endurance task, impossible anagram task, impossible verbal reasoning task, thread and needle task, and boring video task. The task performances formed two BP factors. Together, the two-factor solution is responsible for the common variance constituting 37.3% of the total variance in the performances i.e., performance times. Excluding the impossible anagram task, the performance in any given task was better explained by performances in the other tasks (i.e., “trait”, η2 range = 0.131–0.253) than by the rank order variable (“depletion”, i.e., getting tired from the previous tasks, η2 range = 0–0.096).

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Understanding depressive symptoms through psychological traits and physiological stress reactivity

Cited by 13 publications

References 49 publications

The role of personality traits and social support in relations of health-related behaviours and depressive symptoms

The role of personality traits and social support in relations of health-related behaviours and depressive symptoms

Pilot study on students’ stress reactivity after mindfulness intervention compared to relaxation control group.

Evidence for a Behaviourally Measurable Perseverance Trait in Humans

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