Gender-specific effects of trait anxiety on the cardiac defense response
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Other documents of the author: López Penadés, Raúl; Poy, Rosario; Segarra, Pilar; Esteller, Àngels; Fonfría, Alicia; Ribes, Pablo; Ventura-Bort, Carlos; Molto, Javier
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Gender-specific effects of trait anxiety on the cardiac defense responseAuthor (s)
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LÓPEZ, Raúl, et al. Gender-specific effects of trait anxiety on the cardiac defense response. Personality and Individual Differences, 2016, 96: 243-247.Type
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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 ... [+]
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. [-]
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