Anger Expression and Psychophysiological Stress Responses in Military Men

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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Measuring the effects of information processing on psychophysiological stress responses

10.2514/6.1999-980 ◽

1999 ◽

Author(s):

S. Boregowda ◽

S. Tiwari ◽

O. Palsson ◽

B. Downing

Keyword(s):

Information Processing ◽

Stress Responses ◽

Psychophysiological Stress

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Effects of cognitive-behavioral therapy with relaxation vs. imagery rescripting on psychophysiological stress responses of students with test anxiety in a randomized controlled trial

Psychotherapy Research ◽

10.1080/10503307.2018.1475767 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 29 (8) ◽

pp. 974-985 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Neele Reiss ◽

Irene Warnecke ◽

Ana Nanette Tibubos ◽

Theano Tolgou ◽

Ursula Luka-Krausgrill ◽

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Keyword(s):

Randomized Controlled Trial ◽

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ◽

Test Anxiety ◽

Stress Responses ◽

Behavioral Therapy ◽

Controlled Trial ◽

Cognitive Behavioral ◽

Randomized Controlled ◽

Psychophysiological Stress ◽

Imagery Rescripting

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Psychophysiological Stress Responses during Training and Competition in Young Female Competitive Tennis Players

International Journal of Sports Medicine ◽

10.1055/s-0034-1384544 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 36 (01) ◽

pp. 22-28 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

J. Fernandez-Fernandez ◽

D. Boullosa ◽

D. Sanz-Rivas ◽

L. Abreu ◽

E. Filaire ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Stress Responses ◽

Young Female ◽

Tennis Players ◽

Psychophysiological Stress

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Associations between psychophysiological stress responses, inflammatory markers, and CSF biomarkers in the spectrum of Alzheimer’s disease

Alzheimer s & Dementia ◽

10.1002/alz.050841 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 17 (S6) ◽

Author(s):

Hwamee Oh ◽

Hoi‐Chung Leung ◽

Turhan Canli ◽

Mark Slifstein ◽

Elliot Y. Park

Keyword(s):

Alzheimer’S Disease ◽

Alzheimer's Disease ◽

Stress Responses ◽

Inflammatory Markers ◽

Csf Biomarkers ◽

Psychophysiological Stress

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Psychophysiological Stress Reactivity Relationships across the Menstrual Cycle

Journal of Hormones ◽

10.1155/2015/631250 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 2015 ◽

pp. 1-5 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Karen C. Olson ◽

Haley A. Carroll ◽

M. Kathleen B. Lustyk

Keyword(s):

Menstrual Cycle ◽

Trait Anxiety ◽

Stress Responses ◽

Luteal Phase ◽

Protective Factor ◽

Stress Reactivity ◽

Acute Stress ◽

Physiological Stress ◽

Psychophysiological Stress ◽

Autonomic Perception

While evidence suggests that women exhibit psychophysiological differences in stress reactivity across the menstrual cycle, the relationships among psychological and physiological stress reactivity states are not well understood. Healthy, normally cycling women (N=44) participated in two counterbalanced laboratory sessions during the follicular and luteal phases where heart rate and subjective stress were assessed in response to stressors. There were no differences in the magnitudes of psychophysiological stress responses across the cycle. Psychological and physiological states were largely unrelated in the follicular phase but interrelationships were found in the luteal phase and these relationships were influenced by autonomic perception and trait anxiety. For women with high trait anxiety, autonomic perception appeared to buffer psychological and physiological stress reactivity during the luteal phase, suggesting that autonomic perception may be a protective factor for more anxious women during times of acute stress.

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