title: School burnout: increased sympathetic vasomotor tone and attenuated ambulatory diurnal blood pressure variability in young adult women.
abstract: Two studies examined autonomic and cardiovascular functioning that may link school burnout to cardiovascular risk factors in young healthy adult females. Study 1 (N = 136) investigated whether school burnout was related to resting values of blood pressure (BP) and blood pressure variability (BPV) through laboratory beat-to-beat BP assessment. Study 2 (N = 94) examined the link between school burnout and diurnal BPV through ambulatory BP monitoring. Controlling for anxiety and depressive symptomatology, school burnout demonstrated strong positive relationships with indices of cardiac sympathovagal tone, sympathetic vasomotor tone, inefficient myocardial oxygen consumption, increased 24-h ambulatory heart rate and BP, blunted BP diurnal variability, and increased arterial stiffness. These studies establish cardiovascular biomarkers of school burnout and suggest that even in a seemingly healthy sample school burnout may predispose females to increased cardiovascular risk. Several future lines of research are outlined.
authors.affiliation: Family Institute, The Florida State University , Tallahassee, FL , USA and.
authors.forename: Ross W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: May
authors.forename: Marcos A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Sanchez-Gonzalez
authors.forename: Frank D
authors.initials: FD
authors.lastname: Fincham
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D001794:Blood Pressure; D018660:Blood Pressure Monitoring, Ambulatory; D002055:Burnout, Professional / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology; D002940:Circadian Rhythm; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D008603:Mental Health; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D012307:Risk Factors; D012737:Sex Factors; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013997:Time Factors; D014661:Vasoconstriction; D014666:Vasomotor System / Q000503:physiopathology*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Ambulatory; blood pressure; cardiovascular; diurnal; school burnout; sympathetic vasomotor tone