Why the study?
Does parasympathetic flexibility improve the effectiveness of spontaneous affect regulation strategies in undergraduate students?
Does parasympathetic flexibility improve the effectiveness of spontaneous affect regulation strategies in undergraduate students?
Contextually appropriate parasympathetic reactivity and recovery may facilitate the success of affect regulation, suggesting that impairments in parasympathetic flexibility could confer risk for affective disorders.
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Supports link between parasympathetic flexibility and effective affect regulation; leaves open whether enhancing vagal recovery reduces affective disorder risk.
Stange et al. (2017) studied this question.
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