Psychological and physiological responses during an exam and their relation to personality characteristics

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 423-441

  Spangler, Gottfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adrenocortical reactivity; Anxiety; Examination stress; Heart rate reactivity; Immunological reactivity

Indexed keywords

ADRENAL CORTEX; ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; EMOTION; EXAMINATION; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERSONALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STRESS;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ADULT; ANXIETY; EGO; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; PERSONALITY; SALIVA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 0030753227     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4530(97)00040-1     Document Type: Article

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