Does trait negative affect link depression, anxiety, and anger to impairments in cardiac autonomic function?
Trait negative affect may serve as the unifying element linking individual negative emotions to autonomic nervous system dysregulation.
Negative affect as a common pathway between depression, anxiety, and anger and impairments in cardiac autonomic function was supported, suggesting negative affect may be the unifying and potentially toxic element linking individual trait negative emotions to ANS dysregulation.
Bleil et al. (Mon,) studied this question.