Relations between personality measures and physiological reactivity using a perceptual motor challenge.
60 undergraduates participated in research designed to investigate the relations between psychological and physiological measures of personality under stress. Psychological assessments were elicited from responses to the Jenkins Activity Survey. Physiological assessments were elicited during 5 1-min. trials on the pursuit rotor, a perceptual motor task. Pearson correlations and multiple regression analyses were consistent with the notion that psychological and physiological assessments yield contradictory information and that research is needed to develop valid methodologies with which to assess human stress.
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University of Cincinnati, OH 45221-0022.
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Antrim
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001143:Arousal; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D010556:Personality Tests; D011597:Psychomotor Performance; D012307:Risk Factors; D014434:Type A Personality