Resting respiratory sinus arrhythmia was associated with positive but not negative tonic emotionality in an 8-month study of 80 university students.
Observational (n=80)
Is resting respiratory sinus arrhythmia associated with tonic positive or negative emotionality in university students?
Resting respiratory sinus arrhythmia serves as an index of a person's tonic positive emotionality rather than phasic emotional responding.
Resting respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSAREST) indexes important aspects of individual differences in emotionality. In the present investigation, the authors address whether RSAREST is associated with tonic positive or negative emotionality, and whether RSAREST relates to phasic emotional responding to discrete positive emotion-eliciting stimuli. Across an 8-month, multiassessment study of first-year university students (n = 80), individual differences in RSAREST were associated with positive but not negative tonic emotionality, assessed at the level of personality traits, long-term moods, the disposition toward optimism, and baseline reports of current emotional states. RSAREST was not related to increased positive emotion, or stimulus-specific emotion, in response to compassion-, awe-, or pride-inducing stimuli. These findings suggest that resting RSA indexes aspects of a person's tonic positive emotionality.
Oveis et al. (Wed,) conducted a observational in Emotionality (n=80). Resting respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSAREST) was evaluated on Tonic positive or negative emotionality and phasic emotional responding. Resting respiratory sinus arrhythmia was associated with positive but not negative tonic emotionality in an 8-month study of 80 university students.
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