Affectionate communication received from spouses predicts stress hormone levels in healthy adults

Communication Monographs

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 351-368

  Floyd, Kory ^a   Riforgiate, Sarah ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Affection; Affection Exchange Theory; Cortisol; DHEA S; Stress

Indexed keywords

EID: 57249107984     PISSN: 03637751     EISSN: 14795787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03637750802512371     Document Type: Article

References (59)

1. Blascovich, J., Shiffert, J. H., & Katkin, E. H. (1989). A comparison of exercise and psychophysiological stress testing for coronary disease. Psychophysiology, 26, 57.
2. Blum, D. (2002). Love at goon park: Harry Harlow and the science of affection. Cambridge, MA: Perseus.
3. Butcher, S. K., Killampalli, V., Lascelles, D., Wang, K., Alpar, E. K., & Lord, J. M. (2005). Raised cortisol: DHEAS ratio in the elderly after injury: Potential impact of neurophil function and immunity. Aging Cell, 4, 391-324.
4. Chrousos, G., & Gold, P. (1992). The concepts of stress and stress system disorders. Journal of the American Medical Association, 267, 1244-1252.
5. Cohen, S., Doyle, W. J., Skoner, D. P., Rabin, B. S., & Gwaltney, J. M. (1997). Social ties and susceptibility to the common cold. Journal of the American Medical Association, 277, 1940-1944.
6. Cruess, D. G., Antoni, H. M., Kumar, M., Ironson, G., McCabe, P., Fernandez, J. B., et al. (1999). Cognitive-behavioral stress management buffers decreases in dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEA-S) and increases in the cortisol/DHEA-S ratio and reduces mood disturbance and perceived stress among HIV-seropositive men. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 24, 537-549.
7. Diagnostic Systems Laboratory. (1995). Active DHEA-S kit (DSL-3500).
8. Floyd, K. (2003). Human affection exchange: V. Attributes of the highly affectionate. Communication Quarterly, 50, 135-152.
9. Floyd, K. (2006a). Communicating affection: Interpersonal behavior and social context. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
10. Floyd, K. (2006b). Human affection exchange: XII. Affectionate communication is associated with diurnal variation in salivary free Cortisol. Western Journal of Communication, 70, 47-63.
11. Floyd, K., Hess, J. A., Miczo, L. A., Halone, K. K., Mikkelson, A. C., & Tusing, K. J. (2005). Human affection exchange: VIII. Further evidence of the benefits of expressed affection. Communication Quarterly, 53, 285-303.
12. Floyd, K., Hesse, C., & Haynes, M. T. (2007). Human affection exchange: XV. Metabolic and cardiovascular correlates of trait expressed affection. Communication Quarterly, 55, 79-94.
13. Floyd, K., & Mikkelson, A. C. (2005). The affectionate communication index. In V Manusov (Ed.), The sourcebook of nonverbal measures: Going beyond words (pp. 47-56). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
14. Floyd, K., Mikkelson, A. C., Hesse, C., & Pauley, P. M. (2007). Affectionate writing reduces total cholesterol: Two randomized, controlled trials. Human Communication Research, 33, 119-142.
15. Floyd, K., Mikkelson, A. C., Tafoya, M. A., Farinelli, L., La Valley, A. G., Judd, J., et al. (2007). Human affection exchange: XIII. Affectionate communication accelerates neuroendocrine stress recovery. Health Communication, 22, 123-132.
16. Floyd, K., & Morman, M. T. (1998). The measurement of affectionate communication. Communication Quarterly, 46, 144-162.
17. Giese, D. J., Sephton, S. E., Abercrombie, H. C, Duran, R. E. F., & Spiegel, D. (2004). Repression and high anxiety are associated with aberrant diurnal Cortisol rhythms in women with metastatic breast cancer. Health Psychology, 23, 645-650.
18. Gordon, G. B., Helzlsouer, K. J., & Comstock, G. W. (1991). Serum levels of dehydroepiandrosterone and its sulfate and the risk of developing bladder cancer. Cancer Research, 51, 1366-1369.
19. Grewen, K. M., Girdler, S. S., Amico, J., & Light, K. C. (2005). Effects of partner support on resting oxytocin, Cortisol, norepinephrine, and blood pressure before and after warm partner contact. Psychosomatic Medicine, 67, 531-538.
20. Grillon, C., Pine, D. S., Baas, I. M. P., Lawley, M., EUis, V., & Charney, D. S. (2005). Cortisol and DHEA-S are associated with startle potentiation during aversive conditioning in humans. Psychopharmacology, 186, 434-441.
21. Harlow, H. F. (1958). The nature of love. The American Psychologist, 13, 573-685.
22. Heim, C., Ehlert, U., & Hellhammer, D. H. (2000). The potential role of hypocorticolism in the pathophysiology of stress-related bodily disorders. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 25, 1-35.
23. Huston, T. L., Caughlin, J. P., Houts, R. M., Smith, S. E., & George, L. J. (2001). The connubial crucible: Newlywed years as predictors of marital delight, distress, and divorce. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 80, 237-252.
24. Kiecolt-Glaser, J. K., Garner, W., Speicher, C., Penn, G. M., Holliday, J., & Glaser, R. (1984). Psychosocial modifiers of immunocompetence in medical students. Psychosomatic Medicine, 46, 7-14.
25. Kiecolt-Glaser, J. K., Glaser, R., Shuttleworth, E. C., Dyer, C. S., Ogrocki, P., & Speicher, C. E. (1987). Chronic stress and immunity in family caregivers of Alzheimer's disease victims. Psychosomatic Medicine, 49, 523-535.
26. King, C. E., & Christensen, A. (1983). The relationship events scale: A Guttman scaling of progress in courtship. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 45, 671-678.
27. Kirschbaum, C., & Hellhammer, D. H. (1989). Salivary Cortisol in psychobiological research: An overview. Neuropsychology, 22, 150-169.
28. Kurup, R. K., & Kurup, P. A. (2003). Hypothalamic digoxin, hemispheric dominance, and neurobiology of love and affection. International Journal of Neuroscience, 113, 721-729.
29. Labrie, F., Luu-The, V., Bélanger, A., Lin, S.-X., Simard, J., Pelletier, G., & Labie, C. (2005). Is dehydroepiandrosterone a hormone? Journal of Endocrinology, 187, 169-196.
30. Labrie, F., Luu-The, V., Labrie, C., & Simard, J. (2001). DHEA and its transformation into androgens and estrogens in peripheral target tissues: Intracrinology. Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology, 22, 185-212.
31. Lac, G., Lac, N., & Robert, A. (1993). Steroid assays in saliva: A method to detect plasmatic contaminations. Archives Internationales de Physiologic et de Biochimie, 101, 257-262.
32. Laughlin, G. A., & Barrett-Connor, E. (2000). Sexual dimorphism in the influence of advanced aging on adrenal hormone levels: The Rancho Bernardo study. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 85, 3561-3568.
33. Loria, R. M., Inge, T. H., Cook, S. S., Szakal, A. K., & Regelson, W. (1988). Protection against acute lethal viral infections with the native steroid dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA). Journal of Medical Virology, 26, 301-314.
34. Luecken, L. J., Dausch, B., Gulla, V., Hong, R., & Compas, B. E. (2004). Alterations in morning Cortisol associated with PTSD in women with breast cancer. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 56, 13-15.
35. Lynch, J. W., Everson, S. A., Kaplan, G. A., Salonen, R., & Salonen, J. T. (1998). Does low socioeconomic status potentiate the effects of heightened cardiovascular responses to stress on the progression of carotid atherosclerosis? American Journal of Public Health, 88, 389-394.
36. Manuck, S. B., Kasprowicz, A. L., & Muldoon, M. F. (1990). Behaviorally evoked cardiovascular reactivity and hypertension: Conceptual issues and potential associations. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 12, 17-29.
37. Marazziti, D., & Canale, D. (2004). Hormonal changes when falling in love. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 29, 931-936.
38. McEwan, B. (1999). Stress and the brain. In R. Conlan (Ed.), States of mind: New discoveries about how our brains make us who we are (pp. 81-102). New York: Wiley.
39. Morgan, C. A., Southwick, S., Hazlett, G., Rasmusson, A., Hoyt, G., Zimolo, Z., & Charney, D. (2004). Relationships among plasma dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate and Cortisol levels, symptoms of dissociation, and objective performance in humans exposed to acute stress. Archives of General Psychiatry, 61, 819-825.
40. Näsman, B., Olsson, T., Seckl, J. R., Eriksson, S., Viitanen, M., Bucht, G., & Carlstrom, K. (1995). Abnormalties in adrenal androgens, but not of glucocorticoids, in early Alzheimer's disease. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 20, 83-94.
41. Neylan, T. C., Brunet, A., Pole, N., Best, S. R., Metzler, T. J., Yehuda, R., & Marmar, C. R. (2005). PTSD symptoms predict waking Cortisol levels in police officers. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 30, 373-381.
42. Ozasa, H., Kita, M., Inoue, T., & Mori, T. (1990). Plasma dehydroepiandrosterone to Cortisol ratios as an indicator of stress in gynecological patients. Gynecological Oncology, 37, 178-182.
43. Parker, L. N., Levin, E. R., & Lifrak, E. T. (1985). Evidence for adrenocortical adaptation to severe illness. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 60, 947-952.
44. Pennebaker, I. W., Mayne, T. J., & Francis, M. E. (1997). Linguistic predictors of adaptive bereavement. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 72, 863-871.
45. Potempa, K. (1994). An overview of the role of cardiovascular reactivity to stressful challenges in the etiology of hypertension. Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 8, 27-38.
46. Riozzi, A., Heagerty, A. M., Bing, R. F., Thurston, H., & Swales, 1. D. (1987). Effects of cold pressor test-induced stress on leukocyte sodium transport and norepinephrine. Hypertension, 9, 13-17.
47. Rosenfeld, R. S., Rosenberg, B. J., Fukushima, D. K., & Hellman, L. (1975). 24-hour secretory pattern of dehydroepiandrosterone and dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 40, 850-855.
48. Roy, M. P., Kirschbaum, C., & Steptoe, A. (2001). Psychological, cardiovascular, and metabolic correlates of individual differences in Cortisol stress recovery in young men. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 26, 375-391.
49. Sapolsky, R. M. (2002). Endocrinology of the stress-response. In J. B. Becker, S. M. Beedlove, D. Crews, & M. M. McCarthy (Eds.), Behavioral endocrinology (2nd ed., pp. 409-450). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
50. Tardy, C. H., Thompson, W. R., & Allen, M. T. (1989). Cardiovascular responses during speech: Does social support mediate the effects of talking on blood pressure? Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 8, 271-285.
51. Taylor, S. E., Klein, L. C., Lewis, B. P., Gruenewald, T. L., Curing, R. A. R., & Updegraff, J. A. (2000). Biobehavioral responses to stress in females: Tend-and-befriend, not fight-or-fiight. Psychological Review, 107, 411-429.
52. Tunn, S., Möllmann, H., Barth, J., Derendorf, H., & Krieg, M. (1992). Simultaneous measurement of Cortisol in serum and saliva after different forms of Cortisol administration. Clinical Chemistry, 38, 1491-1494.
53. Turner, R. A., Altemus, M., Enos, T., Cooper, B., & McGuinness, T. (1999). Preliminary research on plasma oxytocin in normal cycling women: Investigating emotion and interpersonal distress. Psychiatry, 62, 97-113.
54. Van Niekerk, J. K., Huppert, F. A., & Herbert, J. (2001). Salivary Cortisol and DHEA: Association with measures of cognition and well-being in normal older men, and effects of three months of DHEA supplementation. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 26, 591-612.
55. Whetzel, C. A., Ritter, F. E., & Klein, L. C. (2006). DHEA-S and Cortisol responses to stress and caffeine in healthy young men: Is DHEA-S a reliable marker for stress? Psychosomatic Medicine, 68, A-77.
56. Wolkowitz, O. M., & Rothschild, A. I. (Eds.). (2003). Psychoneuroendocrinology: The scientific basis of clinical practice. Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc.
57. Yamaji, T., Ishibashi, M., Sekihara, H., Itabashi, A., & Yanaihara, T. (1984). Serum dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate in Cushing's syndrome. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 59, 1164-1168.
58. Yang, Y., Koh, D., Ng, V., Lee, F. C., Chan, G., Dong, R, & Chia, S. F. (2001). Salivary Cortisol levels and work-related stress among emergency department nurses. Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 43, 11-18.
59. Zumoff, B., Walsh, B. T., Katz, J. L., Levin, J., Rosenfeld, R. S., Kream, J., & Weiner, H. (1983). Subnormal plasma dehydroepiandrosterone to Cortisol ratio in anorexia nervosa: A second hormonal parameter of ontogenic regression. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 56, 668-672.