Psychosocial Factors and Heart Rate Variability in Healthy Women

Horsten, Myriam; Ericson, Mats; Perski, Aleksander; Wamala, Sarah; Schenck‐Gustafsson, Karin; Orth‐Gomér, Kristina

doi:10.1097/00006842-199901000-00009

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“…In adults, higher resting RSA was related to emotion recognition (Quintana et al, 2012), greater perception of social support (Maunder et al 2012), lower rejection sensitivity (Gyurak & Ayduk, 2008), increased positive emotions and social connectedness during social interactions (Kok & Frederickson, 2010), and a tendency to employ more socially-oriented coping and emotion regulation strategies when distressed (Geisler, Kubiak, Siewert, & Weber, 2013). In addition, married and more socially integrated individuals had higher levels of resting RSA than unmarried or less socially integrated individuals (Hemingway et al, 2005;Horsten et al, 1999;Randall, Bhattacharyya, & Steptoe, 2009). Among cohabiting couples, greater resting RSA was also associated with better marital quality and more positive daily interactions (Diamond et al, 2011;Smith et al, 2011).…”

Section: Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia and Social Engagementmentioning

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Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia Is Prospectively Associated With Early Trajectories of Acculturation Among New International Students

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Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

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Respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) is a marker of parasympathetic activity hypothesized to index a neurophysiological system supporting social engagement behaviours. Following migration, people must navigate and adapt to a new sociocultural environment. Whether RSA impacts this psychological acculturation process is unknown. This longitudinal study investigated whether resting RSA on arrival in the receiving country was related to changes in cultural orientations toward both mainstream and heritage cultural groups during the first five months following migration. Sixty new international students provided information on their cultural orientations toward the mainstream and heritage cultural groups shortly after arrival in the new country and two and five months after the first assessment. Results indicated that both heritage and mainstream orientations increased linearly over time. Furthermore, greater resting RSA at baseline was prospectively associated with larger increases in positive orientation toward the mainstream culture but not the heritage culture, over and above individual differences in extraversion, depression, and anxiety. These data provide longitudinal evidence that higher RSA promotes an approach-oriented stance toward a novel cultural environment.

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Section: Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia and Social Engagementmentioning

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Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia Is Prospectively Associated With Early Trajectories of Acculturation Among New International Students

Doucerain

Deschênes

Aubé

et al. 2016

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

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“…These individuals may be unable to adequately perform their physical and physiological activities, they may reveal subtle or evident manifestations of poor cardiovascular health, and they may still exhibit the substrate for continuous development of cardiovascular disturbances 16 . In fact, several observations suggest that alterations of autonomic regulatory physiological processes or influences responsible for cardiovascular adaptation dynamics may be a mechanism for the development of functional derangements and disease states [81][82][83] .…”

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“…Difficulty in coping with social stress and in controlling emotions can also occur in subjects with systemic autonomic impairment or even in just cardiac autonomic impairment, because the integrity of parasympathetic homeostatic function is important for the adequate performance of these tasks, and the heart is crucial to providing functional adaptation for them 82,83,90 . Therefore, chagasic subjects may also be susceptible to psycho-functional derangements attendant on functional demands for higher cerebral processes in association with their autonomic cardiovascular adaptive disability, as suggested by some evidences 91,92 .…”

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Insights into the clinical and functional significance of cardiac autonomic dysfunction in Chagas disease

Junqueira Junior

2012

Rev. Soc. Bras. Med. Trop.

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INTRODUCTION: Exclusive or associated lesions in various structures of the autonomic nervous system occur in the chronic forms of Chagas disease. In the indeterminate form, the lesions are absent or mild, whereas in the exclusive or combined heart and digestive disease forms, they are often more pronounced. Depending on their severity these lesions can result mainly in cardiac parasympathetic dysfunction but also in sympathetic dysfunction of variable degrees. Despite the key autonomic effect on cardiovascular functioning, the pathophysiological and clinical significance of the cardiac autonomic dysfunction in Chagas disease remains unknown. METHODS: Review of data on the cardiac autonomic dysfunction in Chagas disease and their potential consequences, and considerations supporting the possible relationship between this disturbance and general or cardiovascular clinical and functional adverse outcomes. RESULTS: We hypothesise that possible consequences that cardiac dysautonomia might variably occasion or predispose in Chagas disease include: transient or sustained arrhythmias, sudden cardiac death, adverse overall and cardiovascular prognosis with enhanced morbidity and mortality, an inability of the cardiovascular system to adjust to functional demands and/or respond to internal or external stimuli by adjusting heart rate and other hemodynamic variables, and immunomodulatory and cognitive disturbances. CONCLUSIONS: Impaired cardiac autonomic modulation in Chagas disease might not be a mere epiphenomenon without significance. Indirect evidences point for a likely important role of this alteration as a primary predisposing or triggering cause or mediator favouring the development of subtle or evident secondary cardiovascular functional disturbances and clinical consequences, and influencing adverse outcomes.

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“…[1], [6]). Obtaining reliable data for assessing levels of HRV over an extended period (around 3 weeks in this project), outside of the laboratory in naturalistic settings using non-invasive methods is a non-trivial task.…”

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Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2015

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Abstract. This paper reports on the design and development of a suite of tools to collect, analyze and visualize a diverse range of data from sufferers of mental ill-health. The aim is to allow researchers and ultimately sufferers and clinicians to better understand the 'individual signatures' of factors that indicate or identify episodes of ill-health. The tools have been applied as part of a study working with clients of a mental health service that demonstrates positive results concerning the applicability and acceptability of the approach in developing a better understanding of the factors surrounding self-harm behavior.

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Psychosocial Factors and Heart Rate Variability in Healthy Women

Abstract: These findings suggest heart rate variability to be a mediating mechanism that could explain at least part of the reported associations between social isolation, suppressed anger, and health outcomes.

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Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia Is Prospectively Associated With Early Trajectories of Acculturation Among New International Students

Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia Is Prospectively Associated With Early Trajectories of Acculturation Among New International Students

Insights into the clinical and functional significance of cardiac autonomic dysfunction in Chagas disease

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