ANGER AND CARDIAC REACTIVITY. ADAPTATION TO A REAL LIFE STRESS SITUATION

Authors

  • Alicia Breva Asensio
  • Matilde Espinosa
  • Francisco Palmero Cantero
Keywords: anger-hostility construct, cardiac activation, cardiac reactivity, real life stress, slow recovery

Abstract

The objective of our work is centered in establishing the possible existent relationship between the angerhostility construct and the cardiac activation and reactivity. The scientific studies on the topic obtain heterogeneous results, great part of them due to the type of experimental task designed to detect differences among groups. In our work, a task of real stress, an exam, has been used, that allows to better detect the differences among groups of subjects. For it, we have conformed two groups of subjects on account their punctuations in the Composite Scale, obtained from the Cook and Medley Hostility Inventory (Ho): group of high anger-hostility and group of low angerhostility. Our hypotheses are the following ones: in the first place, we outline that the subjects that score high in the anger-hostility variable they will present bigger heart activation in the three phases of the designed experiment, that is, adaptation, task and recovery; in second place, we outline that the subjects that score high in anger-hostility variable they will take more time in adapting to the demands of the task, presenting a slower recovery of their basal levels. The obtained results confirm the two outlined hypotheses.

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Author Biographies

Alicia Breva Asensio

Universitat Jaume I de Castellón

Matilde Espinosa

Universitat Jaume I de Castellón

Francisco Palmero Cantero

Universitat Jaume I de Castellón
How to Cite
Breva Asensio, A., Espinosa, M., & Palmero Cantero, F. (2000). ANGER AND CARDIAC REACTIVITY. ADAPTATION TO A REAL LIFE STRESS SITUATION. Anales de Psicología / Annals of Psychology, 16(1), 1–11. Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/analesps/article/view/29501
Issue
Vol. 16 No. 1 (2000)
Section
Psychology of emotion

 

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