Extraversion and cardiovascular responses to recurrent social stress: Effect of stress intensity

Lü, Wei; Xing, Wanying; Hughes, Brian M.; Wang, Zhenhong

doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2017.10.008

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“…Consistent with this reasoning, previous studies show extraversion and personality measures of positive emotionality associated with lower cardiovascular and cortisol reactivity (Childs et al, 2014; Evans et al., 2016; Jonassaint et al., 2009; Pearson & Freeman, 1991) and greater habituation to repeated stressors (Lü et al., 2018). In contrast, findings for neuroticism and negative emotionality are somewhat mixed with some studies reporting greater cardiovascular reactivity (Evans et al., 2016; Jonassaint et al., 2009; Kennedy & Hughes, 2004; Schwebel & Suls, 1999), while others report lower reactivity (Bibbey et al., 2013; Childs et al, 2014; Habra et al., 2003; Hughes et al., 2011) or null associations (Puig‐Perez et al., 2016).…”

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“…In contrast, findings for neuroticism and negative emotionality are somewhat mixed with some studies reporting greater cardiovascular reactivity (Evans et al., 2016; Jonassaint et al., 2009; Kennedy & Hughes, 2004; Schwebel & Suls, 1999), while others report lower reactivity (Bibbey et al., 2013; Childs et al, 2014; Habra et al., 2003; Hughes et al., 2011) or null associations (Puig‐Perez et al., 2016). Similar to the limitations of the literature on negative emotionality and cardiovascular outcomes, studies exploring the relationship of positive or negative emotionality with cardiovascular reactivity also fail to control for the other dimension of emotionality (e.g., Bibbey et al., 2013; Childs et al, 2014; Hughes et al., 2011; Jonassaint et al., 2009; Lü et al., 2018; Puig‐Perez et al., 2016). It is unclear, again, as to whether positive or negative emotionality most strongly associates with cardiovascular reactivity.…”

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Is stressor‐evoked cardiovascular reactivity a pathway linking positive and negative emotionality to preclinical cardiovascular disease risk?

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Stressor‐evoked cardiovascular reactivity, trait positive emotionality, and negative emotionality are all associated with cardiovascular disease. It is unknown, however, whether cardiovascular reactivity may constitute a pathway by which trait positive or negative emotionality relates to disease risk. Accordingly, this study modeled the cross‐sectional relationships between trait positive and negative emotionality, stressor‐evoked cardiovascular reactivity, and severity of a subclinical vascular marker of cardiovascular risk, carotid artery intima‐media thickness (CA‐IMT). The sample consisted of healthy, midlife adults free from clinical cardiovascular disease (N = 286; ages 30–54; 50% female). Trait positive and negative emotionality were measured by three questionnaires. Heart rate and blood pressure reactivity were assessed across three stressor tasks. CA‐IMT was assessed by ultrasonography. Latent factors of positive and negative emotionality, blood pressure reactivity, heart rate reactivity, and CA‐IMT were created using structural equation modeling. Greater negative emotionality was marginally associated with more CA‐IMT (β = .21; p = .049), but lower blood pressure reactivity (β = −.19; p = .03). However, heightened blood pressure (β = .21; p = .03), but not heart rate reactivity (β = −.05; p = .75), associated with greater CA‐IMT. Positive emotionality was uncorrelated with cardiovascular reactivity (blood pressure: β = −.04; p = .61; heart rate: β = .16; p = .11) and CA‐IMT (β = .16; p = .07). Although trait negative emotionality associates with a known marker of cardiovascular disease risk, independent of positive emotionality, it is unlikely to occur via a stressor‐evoked cardiovascular reactivity pathway.

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Is stressor‐evoked cardiovascular reactivity a pathway linking positive and negative emotionality to preclinical cardiovascular disease risk?

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“…It is also likely that complexity and interactions of the traits themselves -not just methodological differences -may lead to differences in findings. For example, research indicates that those who have higher levels of extraversion are likely to exhibit cardiovascular responses which are more flexible, more attentive to changing environments, and therefore more adaptive (Lü, Xing, Hughes, and Wang, 2018). Although those with higher extraversion initially show lower responses to minor stressors, a reverse effect is observed when the magnitude of the stressor is increased significantly.…”

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Personality, cardiovascular, and cortisol reactions to acute psychological stress in the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) study

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International Journal of Psychophysiology

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Recent research has suggested that diminished, as well as elevated reactivity to acute psychological stress is maladaptive. These differences in stress reactions have been hypothesised to relate to the Big Five personality traits, which are said to be biologicallybased and stable across adulthood; however, findings have been inconclusive. This study sought to replicate the findings of the largest study conducted to date (Bibbey, Carroll, Roseboom, Phillips, and de Rooij, 2013), with a sample of participants from the Midlife in the United States Study (MIDUS), aged between 35 and 84 years (M = 56.33, SD = 10.87). Participants (N = 817) undertook a standardized, laboratory-based procedure during which their cardiovascular and neuroendocrine reactivity to acute stress was measured. In contrast to Bibbey et al. (2013), associations between neuroticism and blunted reactivity did not withstand adjustment for confounding variables. Further, following adjustment for multiple tests, no significant positive association between agreeableness and HR reactivity was observed. Methodological differences between the studies, which may account in part for the contrasting findings, are discussed. Further conceptual replication research is needed to clarify associations between the Big Five personality traits and stress reactivity, across the lifespan.

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“…Considering this, in the present study, watching a film clip depicting marital conflict, a mental arithmetic task, and a speech task were used to explore interaction effects between RSA reactivity and marital conflict in regard to predicting internalizing problems. These tasks were chosen because they are common stress-induction stimuli used in reactivity protocols (Dickerson and Kemeny, 2004; Lü et al, 2017).…”

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Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia Acts as a Moderator of the Relationship Between Parental Marital Conflict and Adolescents’ Internalizing Problems

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The present study examined the potential moderating role respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) plays in the relationship between parental marital conflict and adolescents’ internalizing problems. To examine this issue, data were collected from 330 adolescents (13–14 years, 182 boys). The Chinese version of the Achenbach Youth Self-Report-2001 and the Chinese version of the Children’s Perception of Interparental Conflict were used to assess the adolescents’ internalizing problems and their perceptions of parental marital conflict. To obtain RSA data, electrocardiogram monitoring was performed on the adolescents at baseline and during a series of stress tasks (watching a film clip depicting marital conflict, a mental arithmetic task, and a speech task). The results indicated that baseline RSA and RSA reactivity to the film clip moderated the relationship between parental marital conflict and internalizing problems in early adolescents. The moderating effect of baseline RSA supported the BSCT hypothesis. Specifically, adolescents with low baseline RSA have both the highest and lowest levels of internalizing problems, depending on the level of marital conflict. In contrast, adolescents with high levels of baseline RSA have moderate levels in internalizing problems, regardless of the level of marital conflict they experience. Similarly, high marital conflict was related to internalizing problems for adolescents with less RSA suppression or RSA augmentation but not for those with greater RSA suppression. This effect was specific to stress related to marital conflict, as RSA reactivity to the mental arithmetic task and speech task did not moderate the relationship between marital conflict and internalizing problems. These findings suggest that certain profile of parasympathetic nervous activity is a risk factor for internalizing problems particularly for those who experience high-conflict environments.

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Extraversion and cardiovascular responses to recurrent social stress: Effect of stress intensity

Cited by 21 publications

References 30 publications

Is stressor‐evoked cardiovascular reactivity a pathway linking positive and negative emotionality to preclinical cardiovascular disease risk?

Is stressor‐evoked cardiovascular reactivity a pathway linking positive and negative emotionality to preclinical cardiovascular disease risk?

Personality, cardiovascular, and cortisol reactions to acute psychological stress in the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS) study

Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia Acts as a Moderator of the Relationship Between Parental Marital Conflict and Adolescents’ Internalizing Problems

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