Stress and Coping

McEwen, Bruce S.

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“…This sense of being an active agent in controlling one's fate should facilitate a proactive approach to one's health, both in seeking treatment when it might be warranted and in engaging in health-protective behaviors such as proper diet and exercise (37). In addition, agency may buffer physiological reactivity to stressors (38). These potential mechanism-related pathways would be very difficult to investigate in longitudinal studies of life-span longevity but could be examined in more proximate terms in laboratory studies.…”

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Linguistic Agency and Life-Span Longevity

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“…This activation to accommodate a stressor is expedient as long as the system again returns to "normal" operation after the challenge. The PNS is a vital part of this recovery process and is associated with decreased arousal, conservation, growth and restoration (McEwen, 2009;Porges, 1992b). The SNS and PNS responses are coordinated continuously to provide the appropriate internal state to meet the demands of the milieu and to keep the internal state within appropriate limits to secure survival.…”

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Physical Fitness and Psychological Hardiness as Predictors of Parasympathetic Control in Response to Stress: a Norwegian Police Simulator Training Study

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Gjevestad

Aabrekk

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J Police Crim Psych

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The individual biopsychological response to a specific stressor is the result of a complex interplay between many different factors including physiology, behavior, and personality. The goal of the present study was to explore the potential link between physical fitness, hardiness (Kobasa,1979), and the individual autonomic stress arousal experienced during a stressful police training situation (active shooter). Eighty-four police students participated in the study and were randomly assigned to either a High-Stress or a Low-Stress testing condition. Hardiness was measured with the Dispositional Resilience Scale (Hystad et al.,2010). Physical fitness was assessed with !̇# $%&'. Parasympathetic control was measured using heart rate variability (HRV), i.e., the root Mean Square Successive Difference (RMSSD). Regression analysis showed that psychological hardiness had a negative main effect on change in parasympathetic activity from baseline to the testing phase (B =-1.43, t =-2.81, p=.007). Larger withdrawal of parasympathetic activation for high-hardy individuals in this phase of the study can be interpreted as an adaptive adjustment to the task set in front of them. A second regression analysis showed that both psychological hardiness (B =-1.47, t = 3.68, p < 001.) and physical fitness (B = 0.89, t = 2.85, p = .006) had significant main effects on change of parasympathetic activity entering the recovery phase of the study. Both regression coefficients were positive, with higher scores on hardiness and physical fitness predicting greater parasympathetic activation at stress offset. Overall the results suggest that psychological hardiness and physical fitness may be important factors in how operational stress affects the individual in a police setting. Those high in hardiness and good physical form seem to be better able to recuperate and reset after a stressful incident, something that can be vital in an operational context. These results will be discussed in relation to the existing literature in the field.

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“…Public speaking is a psychological stressor that may also provoke a physiological response such as perspiration. Stressors can range from acute to chronic (McEwen, 2009).…”

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The impact of therapy

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Stress and Coping

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Linguistic Agency and Life-Span Longevity

Linguistic Agency and Life-Span Longevity

Physical Fitness and Psychological Hardiness as Predictors of Parasympathetic Control in Response to Stress: a Norwegian Police Simulator Training Study

The impact of therapy

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