APS
29th APS Annual Convention · 2017
Spontaneous Emotion Regulation Strategies during Trier Social Stress Test: Relations to Childhood Maltreatment, Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia, and Anxiety Expression
- Fang Hong
Boston University - Lixian Cui
NYU Shanghai - Amanda Tarullo
Boston University - Denise Graf
Boston University - Michael Hiro
Boston University - Stephanie Rapoport
Boston University - Anna Samkavitz
Boston University - Katheryn Lefton
Boston University - Majed Ashy
Adult and Child Therapy Center, and Developmental Bio-psychiatry Research Program - Andrea Mercurio
Boston University - Kathleen Malley-Morrison
Boston University
Abstract
This study revealed associations among spontaneous emotion regulation strategies (expressive suppression and cognitive reappraisal), childhood maltreatment, baseline respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), RSA responses and recovery, and behavioral expressions of anxiety during a laboratory psychosocial stress test in young adult women. Strategies reducing self-reported anxiety also helped reducing autonomic system response
Emotion
