Original Article
Physiological adaptation to recurrent social stress of extraversion
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- Volume 57Issue 5Psychophysiology
- First Published online: April 14, 2020
Wei Lu,
Zhenhong Wang,
Corresponding Author
Wei Lu
Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Behavior and Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Psychology, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, China
Address correspondence to: Wei Lü. Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Behavior and Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Psychology, Shaanxi Normal University, 199 South Chang'an Road, 710062 Xi'an, China. E-mail: [email protected]Search for more papers by this authorZhenhong Wang
Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Behavior and Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Psychology, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, China
Search for more papers by this authorWei Lu,
Zhenhong Wang,
Corresponding Author
Wei Lu
Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Behavior and Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Psychology, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, China
Address correspondence to: Wei Lü. Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Behavior and Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Psychology, Shaanxi Normal University, 199 South Chang'an Road, 710062 Xi'an, China. E-mail: [email protected]Search for more papers by this authorZhenhong Wang
Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Behavior and Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Psychology, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, China
Search for more papers by this authorThis research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31500892), the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (GK201503010), and the State Scholarship Fund for Studying Abroad of the China Scholarship Council (CSC) awarded to Wei Lü.
Abstract
The present studies examined the influence of extraversion on physiological reactivity, recovery, and physiological habituation-sensitization to repeated social stressors. In Study 1, subjective and physiological data were collected from 97 college students who were categorized as high (n = 51) and low (n = 46) on extraversion (NEO-FFI) across five laboratory stages: baseline, stress 1, poststress 1, stress 2, and poststress 2. Results indicated high extraversion (HE) participants exhibited relative lesser heart rate (HR) reactivity and respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) withdrawals to, and more complete HR and RSA recovery after the first social stress, and also exhibited relative lesser HR reactivity to the second social stress. When repeatedly exposed to a social stressor, HE participants showed pronounced systolic blood pressure (SBP) adaptation, low extraversion (LE) participants displayed diastolic blood pressure (DBP) sensitization. In Study 2, data were collected from another 78 participants (HE: n = 40, LE: n = 38) across the same laboratory stages with speech performance videotaped. After controlling for the speech styles, Study 2 found the same HR response and SBP/DBP adaptation pattern across extraversion groups to social stress as Study 1 but not RSA reactivity. These findings suggest extraverts exhibit more adaptive physiological reactivity to recurrent social stressors, which thus might benefit their health.
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