2024-03-29T02:30:42Zhttps://repositori.uji.es/oai/requestoai:repositori.uji.es:10234/1569862024-02-19T13:50:14Zcom_10234_8033com_10234_9col_10234_8636
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López Penadés, Raúl
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Poy, Rosario
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Segarra, Pilar
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Esteller, Àngels
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Fonfría, Alicia
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Ribes, Pablo
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Ventura-Bort, Carlos
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Molto, Javier
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2016-03
This study examined the association between trait anxiety and the reactivity of the defensive motivational system, as indexed by the cardiac defense response (CDR) to an unexpected, intense noise, in a mixed-gender undergraduate sample. Gender-specific effects were observed: only women showed an association between trait anxiety and the CDR, consisting of a more intense, prompter, and durable defensive response in high-anxious women. This association was not evident during the first component of the defensive response — identified as an attentional process of stimulus rejection — but in later components reflecting attentional orienting and motivational processes of energetic mobilization for setting an active defensive response — which might suggest reduced parasympathetic dominance along with increased sympathetic dominance. These findings in an unselected sample are consistent with the proposal of a more reactive defensive motivational system as a potential vulnerability factor towards anxiety manifestations in women.
LÓPEZ, Raúl, et al. Gender-specific effects of trait anxiety on the cardiac defense response. Personality and Individual Differences, 2016, 96: 243-247.
http://hdl.handle.net/10234/156986
10.1016/j.paid.2016.03.014
Anxiety
Gender
Cardiac defense response
Gender-specific effects of trait anxiety on the cardiac defense response