Trait mindfulness modulates neuroendocrine and affective responses to social evaluative threat

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2037-2041

  Brown, Kirk Warren ^a   Weinstein, Netta ^b   Creswell, J David ^c  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mindfulness; Social evaluative threat; Stress buffering hypothesis; Trier Social Stress Test

Indexed keywords

HYDROCORTISONE;

AFFECT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEAR; FEMALE; FUNCTION TEST; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MINDFULNESS; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL STRESS; TASK PERFORMANCE; THREAT; TRIER SOCIAL STRESS TEST;

ADULT; ANXIETY; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SALIVA; SELF REPORT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84869861661     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: 18733360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2012.04.003     Document Type: Article

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