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    Cardiovascular reactivity, stress, and personal emotional salience: Choose your tasks carefully

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    Bourassa, Kyle J.
    Sbarra, David A.
    Affiliation
    Department of Psychology, University of Arizona
    Issue Date
    2022-03-15
    Keywords
    blood pressure
    cardiovascular reactivity
    divorce
    emotional salience
    heart rate
    trauma
    
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    Publisher
    Wiley
    Citation
    Bourassa, K. J., & Sbarra, D. A. (2022). Cardiovascular reactivity, stress, and personal emotional salience: Choose your tasks carefully. Psychophysiology.
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    Psychophysiology
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    © 2022 Society for Psychophysiological Research.
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    Abstract
    Both greater cardiovascular reactivity and lesser reactivity (“blunting”) to laboratory stressors are linked to poor health outcomes, including among people who have a history of traumatic experiences. In a sample of recently separated and divorced adults (N = 96), this study examined whether differences in cardiovascular reactivity might be explained by differences in the personal emotional salience of the tasks and trauma history. Participants were assessed for trauma history, current distress related to their marital dissolution, and cardiovascular reactivity during two tasks, a serial subtraction math stressor task and a divorce-recall task. Participants with a greater trauma history evidenced less blood pressure reactivity to the serial subtraction task (a low personal emotional salience task) when compared to participants with less trauma history. In contrast, participants with a greater trauma history evidenced higher blood pressure reactivity to the divorce-recall task, but only if they also reported more divorce-related distress (high personal emotional salience). These associations were not significant for heart rate reactivity. Among people with a history of more traumatic experiences, a task with low personal salience was associated with a lower blood pressure response, whereas a task with higher personal emotional salience was associated with a higher blood pressure response. Future studies examining cardiovascular reactivity would benefit from determining the personal emotional salience of tasks, particularly for groups that have experienced stressful life events or trauma.
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    12 month embargo; first published: 15 March 2022
    ISSN
    0048-5772
    EISSN
    1469-8986
    DOI
    10.1111/psyp.14037
    Version
    Final accepted manuscript
    Sponsors
    National Institute of Mental Health
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    10.1111/psyp.14037
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