title: Interoceptive awareness, anxiety and cardiovascular reactivity to isometric exercise.
abstract: The present study was designed to investigate the relation between cardiovascular reactivity, trait anxiety and the interoceptive awareness. Eighteen male subjects underwent a heartbeat perception task and performed an isometric handgrip exercise. Subjects with high reactivity showed a higher degree of interoceptive awareness and trait anxiety suggesting that a habitually increased sympathetic outflow might be one variable contributing to the establishment of high interoceptive awareness and trait anxiety.
authors: Department of Psychology, LMU University, Munich, Germany. pollatos@psy.uni-muenchen.de
authors: Olga
authors: O
authors: Pollatos
authors: Beate M
authors: BM
authors: Herbert
authors: Christian
authors: C
authors: Kaufmann
authors: Dorothee P
authors: DP
authors: Auer
authors: Rainer
authors: R
authors: Schandry
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001007:Anxiety / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D019540:Area Under Curve; D001364:Awareness / Q000502:physiology*; D001794:Blood Pressure / Q000502:physiology; D002320:Cardiovascular Physiological Phenomena; D015444:Exercise; D018737:Hand Strength / Q000502:physiology; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male