Salivary cortisol, heart rate, electrodermal activity and subjective stress responses to the Mannheim Multicomponent Stress Test (MMST)

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 198, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 106-111

  Reinhardt, Tatyana ^a   Schmahl, Christian ^a   Wüst, Stefan ^b   Bohus, Martin ^a  

^a CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electrodermal activity; Heart rate; Salivary cortisol; Social evaluative threat; Stress; Stress paradigm; Subjective stress ratings

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

ACOUSTIC STRESS; ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; EMOTIONAL STRESS; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; MANNHEIM MULTICOMPONENT STRESS TEST; MOTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; SALIVA LEVEL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION; STRESS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SALIVA; SEX FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867142975     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: 18727123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2011.12.009     Document Type: Article

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