Why the study?
How do sympathetic and parasympathetic responses to social stress correlate with age across female adolescence?
Population
99 female adolescents
Design
Cross-sectional
Authors
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Autonomic shifts with age during stress in adolescent girls should not yet change practice; leaves open longitudinal validation and mechanisms.
How do sympathetic and parasympathetic responses to social stress correlate with age across female adolescence?
During social stress, sympathetic activity increases and parasympathetic activity decreases with age across female adolescence.
Hollenstein et al. (2011) studied this question.
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