title: The contribution of coping-related variables and heart rate variability to visual search performance under pressure.
abstract: Visual search performance under pressure is explored within the predictions of the neurovisceral integration model. The experimental aims of this study were: 1) to investigate the contribution of coping-related variables to baseline, task, and reactivity (task-baseline) high-frequency heart rate variability (HF-HRV), and 2) to investigate the contribution of coping-related variables and HF-HRV to visual search performance under pressure. Participants (n=96) completed self-report measures of coping-related variables (emotional intelligence, coping style, perceived stress intensity, perceived control of stress, coping effectiveness, challenge and threat, and attention strategy) and HF-HRV was measured during a visual search task under pressure. The data show that baseline HF-HRV was predicted by a trait coping-related variable, task HF-HRV was predicted by a combination of trait and state coping-related variables, and reactivity HF-HRV was predicted by a state coping-related variable. Visual search performance was predicted by coping-related variables but not by HF-HRV.
authors.affiliation: German Sport University Cologne, Institute of Psychology, Germany; University of Caen, France. Electronic address: sylvain.laborde@yahoo.fr.
authors.forename: Sylvain
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Laborde
authors.affiliation: German Sport University Cologne, Institute of Psychology, Germany.
authors.forename: Franziska
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Lautenbach
authors.affiliation: University of Wollongong, School of Psychology, Australia.
authors.forename: Mark S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Allen
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D056348:Emotional Intelligence; D006339:Heart Rate; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011581:Psychological Tests; D012044:Regression Analysis; D057566:Self Report; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology*; D014796:Visual Perception; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Concentration grid exercise; Coping; Emotion regulation; Emotional intelligence; Stress; Vagal tone