Trait anxiety moderates the impact of performance pressure on salivary cortisol in everyday life

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 459-472

  Schlotz, Wolff ^a,c   Schulz, Peter ^a   Hellhammer, Juliane ^a   Stone, Arthur A ^b   Hellhammer, Dirk H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Everyday life stress; Multilevel models; Negative affect; Performance pressure; Personality; Salivary cortisol; Trait anxiety

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PERFORMANCE; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVA ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRESS;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TESTS; SALIVA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 33644870594     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2005.11.003     Document Type: Article

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