Real-life stress, laboratory stress, personality, and gender as factors in cardiovascular reactivity.
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Title
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Real-life stress, laboratory stress, personality, and gender as factors in cardiovascular reactivity.
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Identifier
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AAI9720090
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identifier
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9720090
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Creator
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Fichera, L. Victor.
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Contributor
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Adviser: John L. Andreassi
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Date
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1997
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Psychology, Industrial | Psychology, Physiological | Psychology, Personality | Women's Studies
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Abstract
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Two experiments were conducted to investigate the relationships between Type A behavior, hostility, and cardiovascular reactivity to various stressful tasks. Both laboratory and a real stressor were used. Changes in heart rate, blood pressure and skin conductance from baseline to task levels were used to assess reactivity. In experiment I, the physiological measures of 96 women were taken during a seated baseline period, a reaction time task and during a more socially stressful oral IQ quiz. Analyses indicated that Type A and hostile women were more reactive to the oral IQ quiz than the reaction time stressors. In experiment II, the heart rate and blood pressure of 86 men and women was measured during standing inactive (baseline) conditions and during a classroom oral presentation. The speech was real in that it was a graded part of their course requirement. Results indicated that all research participants, regardless of personality or gender, reacted strongly to the speech. It is suggested that measures of Type A and hostility are not only predictive of reactivity in men but in women also. In addition, very intense, real stressors as opposed to artificial laboratory ones, may result in high levels of reactivity independent of variables which moderate reactivity at lower levels of stress.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
