Are cardiovascular reactors to asocial stress also reactors to social stress?
The authors tested the generalizability of measures of cardiovascular reactivity to asocial and social stress among fathers, mothers, and their adolescent sons. Results showed significant associations between reactivity to individual psychomotor tasks and to conflict resolution only for mothers, suggesting that laboratory measures of reactivity obtained during asocial tasks are of limited value in predicting reactivity during social tasks. Given that interpersonal constructs are important to risk for cardiovascular diseases, these findings point to the importance of measuring cardiovascular reactivity during social stress, not only during asocial achievement stress.
Lassner
J B
JB
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213.
Matthews
K A
KA
Stoney
C M
CM
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000502:physiology; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D002320:Cardiovascular Physiological Phenomena; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006339:Heart Rate / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D012307:Risk Factors; D012919:Social Behavior; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology*