Autonomic influences on heart rate during marital conflict : Associations with high frequency heart rate variability and cardiac pre-ejection period

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Psychosocial factors predict the development and course of cardiovascular disease, perhaps through sympathetic and parasympathetic mechanisms. At rest, heart rate (HR) is under parasympathetic control, often measured as high-frequency heart rate variability (HF-HRV). During stress, HR is influenced jointly by parasympathetic and sympathetic processes, the latter often quantified as pre-ejection period (PEP). In studies of cardiovascular risk factors that involve social interaction (e.g. marital conflict), HF-HRV might be altered by speech artifacts, weakening its validity as a measure of parasympathetic activity. To evaluate this possibility, we tested associations of HF-HRV and PEP with HR at rest and across periods of marital conflict interaction that varied in experimentally-manipulated degrees of speech in 104 couples. At rest, only HF-HRV was independently related to HR, for both husbands and wives. During speaking, listening, and recovery periods, husbands' and wives' HF-HRV and PEP change independently predicted HR change. These findings support interpretation of HF-HRV as a parasympathetic index during stressful social interactions that may confer risk for cardiovascular disease.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

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2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:151

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Biological psychology - 151(2020) vom: 01. März, Seite 107847

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Cribbet, Matthew R [VerfasserIn]
Smith, Timothy W [VerfasserIn]
Uchino, Bert N [VerfasserIn]
Baucom, Brian R W [VerfasserIn]
Nealey-Moore, Jill B [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Clinical Trial
Heart rate
High-frequency heart rate variability
Journal Article
Marital conflict
Pre-ejection period

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Date Completed 08.09.2020

Date Revised 08.09.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.biopsycho.2020.107847

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NLM30560094X