May 11, 2015Anxiety Stress & Coping
The ecological validity of the autonomic-subjective response dissociation in repressive coping
Why the study?
Does repressive coping increase autonomic-subjective response dissociation during stressful episodes in daily life compared to other coping dispositions?
Population
114 individuals
Comparison
Repressive coping vs Other coping dispositions
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
throughout a day
Authors
Discussion
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Implication
Repressive coping may warrant clinical attention for dissociated stress responses; extends lab findings to daily life but leaves causal cardiovascular links open.
Structured PICO
Does repressive coping increase autonomic-subjective response dissociation during stressful episodes in daily life compared to other coping dispositions?
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Population
114 individuals
I
Intervention
Repressive coping
C
Comparator
Other coping dispositions
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Outcome
Autonomic-subjective response dissociation (ASRD) during stressful episodes in daily life (measured via heart rate and subjective reports of negative affect)surrogate
Repressive coping is associated with a discrepancy between subjective reports of negative affect and autonomic responding to stressful encounters in everyday life.
Cite This Study
Schwerdtfeger et al. (2015) studied this question.