Trait and state positive affect and cardiovascular recovery from experimental academic stress

Biological Psychology

Volumn 83, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 108-115

  Papousek, Ilona ^a   Nauschnegg, Karin ^a   Paechter, Manuela ^a   Lackner, Helmut K ^b   Goswami, Nandu ^b   Schulter, Günter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Heart rate variability; Negative affect; Positive affect; Recovery; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART STRESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL STRESS; STUDENT; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AFFECT; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75949110738     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2009.11.008     Document Type: Article

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