Loneliness, social support and cardiovascular reactivity to laboratory stress

Stress

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 37-44

  Nausheen, Bina ^a   Gidron, Yori ^a,b   Gregg, Aiden ^a   Tissarchondou, Harilaos S ^a   Peveler, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular reactivity; Implicit association test; Loneliness; Social support; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CONTENT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPLICIT ASSOCIATION TEST; LONELINESS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; DIASTOLE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LONELINESS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SYSTOLE;

EID: 33947323706     PISSN: 10253890     EISSN: 16078888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10253890601135434     Document Type: Article

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