Acute psychosocial challenge and cardiac autonomic response in women: The role of estrogens, corticosteroids, and behavioral coping styles

Pico-Alfonso, Maria A.; Mastorci, Francesca; Ceresini, Graziano; Ceda, Gian Paolo; Manghi, Massimo; Pino, Olimpia; Troisi, Alfonso; Sgoifo, Andrea

doi:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2007.02.009

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“…Displacement behavior is most often explored in relation to short terms change in emotional state (e.g. Pico-Alfonso et al, 2007;Sgoifo et al, 2003) or as a tool in the study of mental disorders (e.g. Troisi, 1999).…”

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“…There is marked interindividual variation in displacement behavior among both normal (Bardi, Koone, Mewaldt, & O'Connor, 2011) and clinical (Troisi, Spalletta, & Pasini, 1998) populations. In light of the role that displacement behavior may play in stress regulation (Mohiyeddini & Semple, 2013;Mohiyeddini et al, 2013aMohiyeddini et al, , 2013bPico-Alfonso et al, 2007), the extent to which personality traits underlie variation among individuals in the occurrence of this behavior is an important area of future investigation.…”

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“…In a study of women's response to undergoing a stressful interview, Pico-Alfonso et al (2007) found that individuals showing higher rates of displacement behavior during the interview subsequently showed lower heart rate during the post-interview recovery period. Mohiyeddini and Semple (2013) found evidence that displacement behavior in men mediates the relationship between state anxiety before a social stressor and the experience of stress following this stressor.…”

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Neuroticism and stress: the role of displacement behavior

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2015

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2015

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“…Studies of coping behaviour have typically focused on affiliative (Taylor et al 2000) or aggressive (Marcus-Newhall et al 2000) responses to stressful situations. Recently, however, attention has started to focus on the potential role in coping of 'displacement behaviour' -a group of activities such as scratching, lip biting and face touching, which have no apparent relevance to the situation in which they occur (Maestripieri et al 1992;Troisi 2002;Pico-Alfonso et al 2007;Higham et al 2009).…”

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“…Pico-Alfonso et al (2007), for example, found that women who showed higher rates of displacement behaviour during a stressful interview showed a lower heart rate during the post-stressor recovery period. Working with a strepsirhine primate, the small-eared bushbaby (Otolemur garnettii), Watson et al (1999) found that individuals that exhibited higher rates of displacement behaviour (scent marking) when exposed to a novel environment subsequently showed lower cortisol responses to physical restraint.…”

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Displacement behaviour regulates the experience of stress in men

Mohiyeddini

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2012

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Behavioural coping strategies represent a key means by which people regulate their stress levels. Attention has recently focused on the potential role in coping of 'displacement behaviour' - activities such as scratching, lip biting and face touching. Increased levels of displacement behaviour are associated with feelings of anxiety and stress; however, the extent to which displacement behaviour, as a short-term behavioural response to emotionally challenging stimuli, influences the subsequent experience of stress remains poorly understood. The aim of this study was to investigate the potential role of displacement behaviour in coping with stress. In a study population of 42 healthy adult men (mean age = 28.09 years, SD = 7.98), we quantified displacement behaviour during a Trier Social Stress Test (TSST), and used self-report questionnaires to assess trait and state anxiety before the TSST, and the experience of stress afterwards. We predicted displacement behaviour would diminish the negative impact of the stressful situation, and hence be associated with lower post-TSST stress levels. Furthermore, we predicted displacement behaviour would mediate the link between state and trait anxiety on the one hand and the experience of stress on the other. Results showed the rate of displacement behaviour was positively correlated with state anxiety but unrelated to trait anxiety, and negatively correlated with the self-reported experience of stress, in agreement with the idea that displacement behaviour has a crucial impact on regulation of stress. Moreover, serial mediation analyses using a bias-corrected bootstrapping approach indicated displacement behaviour mediated the relationship between state anxiety and the experience of stress, and that state anxiety and displacement behaviour - in combination, respectively - mediated the link between trait anxiety and experience of stress. These results shed important new light on the function of displacement behaviour, and highlight promising new avenues for research into emotional expression and stress regulation.

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Salivary cortisol and behavioral response to social evaluative threat in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder

2016

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Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by deficits in social behavior. One possible explanation for social communication deficits in ASD could be differences in biological systems that support responses to environmental stimuli. If so, it is unclear if differences in the arousal response to social stimuli in ASD are due to reduced interest in social information, or to an increased stress response. The hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis facilitates arousal and the stress response to sensory input, including social stimuli. Previous research shows blunted cortisol response to social evaluative threat in children with ASD. The majority of prior work has focused on children with ASD, but adolescents with ASD are understudied. The adolescent period is of interest, as this developmental epoch is associated with increased salience of social evaluative threat in typically developing (TD) populations. In this study, we employed the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST), a laboratory paradigm that involves exposure to social evaluative threat, to study the cortisol and behavioral response to social evaluative threat in ASD and TD adolescents. Salivary cortisol data were collected at six time points before and after the TSST. Behavioral data were collected using video recordings of the TSST, which were then operationalized and coded. Paired sample t-tests were used to calculate within-group cortisol response to the TSST. Cortisol significantly increased in response to the TSST in the TD group but not the ASD group. The TD group showed a trend for more self-soothing behaviors during the stressor than the ASD group. The lack of a cortisol response to the TSST in the ASD group suggests that the TSST is not interpreted as stressful or salient for ASD adolescents. Autism Res 2017, 10: 346-358. © 2016 International Society for Autism Research, Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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Acute psychosocial challenge and cardiac autonomic response in women: The role of estrogens, corticosteroids, and behavioral coping styles

Cited by 70 publications

References 72 publications

Neuroticism and stress: the role of displacement behavior

Neuroticism and stress: the role of displacement behavior

Displacement behaviour regulates the experience of stress in men

Salivary cortisol and behavioral response to social evaluative threat in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder

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