Sex differences in cardiovascular stress responses: Modulation as a function of menstrual cycle phases

Abstract. Our unit investigates the relationship of emotional processes (experience, expression, and coping), their physiological correlates and possible health outcomes. We study domain specific anger expression behavior and associated cardio-vascular loads and found e.g. that particularly an open anger expression at work is associated with greater blood pressure. Furthermore, we demonstrated that women may be predisposed for the development of certain mental disorders because of their higher disgust sensitivity. We also pointed out that the suppression of negative emotions leads to increased physiological stress responses which results in a higher risk for cardiovascular diseases. We could show that relaxation as well as music activity like singing in a choir causes increases in the local immune parameter immunoglobuline A. Finally, we are investigating connections between migrants’ strategy of acculturation and health and found e.g. elevated cardiovascular stress responses in migrants when they where highly adapted to the German culture.

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Type A behavior and physiological stress responses in preschool children: Sex differences at the ages of three and four.

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e463052004-001 ◽

1987 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Ulf Lundberg ◽

Olof Westermark ◽

Birgitta Rasch

Keyword(s):

Sex Differences ◽

Preschool Children ◽

Stress Responses ◽

Physiological Stress ◽

Type A ◽

Type A Behavior

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Endocrine and cardiovascular stress responses following psychological challenge in women with Borderline-Personality-Disorder

Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology & Diabetes ◽

10.1055/s-2005-920462 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 113 (08) ◽

Author(s):

NC Schommer ◽

N Meissner ◽

I Heuser ◽

CH Lammers

Keyword(s):

Borderline Personality Disorder ◽

Personality Disorder ◽

Stress Responses ◽

Borderline Personality ◽

Cardiovascular Stress ◽

Psychological Challenge

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Intersexual and Intrasexual Competition and Their Relation to Jealousy

The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology and Behavioral Endocrinology ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190649739.013.12 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 214-236

Author(s):

Abraham P. Buunk ◽

Karlijn Massar ◽

Pieternel Dijkstra ◽

Ana María Fernández

Keyword(s):

Sex Differences ◽

Individual Differences ◽

Menstrual Cycle ◽

Attachment Styles ◽

Mate Guarding ◽

Intrasexual Competition ◽

Online Infidelity ◽

Intersexual Competition

This chapter discusses sex differences in intersexual competition and describes particularly the consequences of such competition for conflict between the sexes, as well as for sex differences in mate guarding and, relatedly, in the types of infidelity that evoke jealousy, including online infidelity. It also discusses individual differences in jealousy as related to attachment styles and describes the effects of height, hormones, and the menstrual cycle on jealousy. Next, the chapter moves on to intrasexual competition and discusses, among other topics, intrasexual competition among men and among women, the role of sex differences in rival characteristics in evoking jealousy, the role of attachment styles and hormones, and individual differences in intrasexual competitiveness.

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