APS
31st APS Annual Convention · 2019
Trait Anxiety Is Associated with Heightened Salivary Alpha Amylase Responses to Social Evaluative Stress in Pregnant Women
- Alexander Rivera
University of California, Irvine - Yasmin Kofman
University of California, Irvine - Ilona Yim
University of California, Irvine
Abstract
Pregnant women high in anxiety-proneness showed a trend for higher salivary alpha amylase response after a laboratory stressor compared to women low in anxiety-proneness. Results suggest that anxiety proneness may be linked to ANS dysregulation, a possible mechanism linked to adverse health outcomes during the perinatal period.
Stress
