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Emotion regulation as a predictor of the endocrine, autonomic, affective, and symptomatic stress response and recovery

•Emotion regulation is related to the stress response but not to the recovery.•High maladaptive emotion regulation is related to a stronger affective stress response.•High maladaptive emotion regulation is related to a blunted endocrine stress response. Stress is associated with the development of m...

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Published in:Psychoneuroendocrinology 2018-08, Vol.94, p.112-120
Main Authors: Krkovic, Katarina, Clamor, Annika, Lincoln, Tania M.
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Language:English
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Summary:•Emotion regulation is related to the stress response but not to the recovery.•High maladaptive emotion regulation is related to a stronger affective stress response.•High maladaptive emotion regulation is related to a blunted endocrine stress response. Stress is associated with the development of mental disorders such as depression and psychosis. The ability to regulate emotions is likely to influence how individuals respond to and recover from acute stress, and may thus be relevant to symptom development. To test this, we investigated whether self-reported emotion regulation predicts the endocrine, autonomic, affective, and symptomatic response to and recovery from a stressor. Social-evaluative stress was induced by the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST) in N = 67 healthy individuals (53.7% female, Mage = 29.9). Self-reported habitual emotion regulation skills were assessed at baseline. We measured salivary cortisol, heart rate, negative affect, state depression and state paranoia at three time points: pre-TSST, post-TSST, and after a 10 min recovery phase. Repeated-measures ANOVA showed all indicators to significantly increase in response to the stressor (p 
ISSN:0306-4530
1873-3360
DOI:10.1016/j.psyneuen.2018.04.028