Mind the gap between feeling bad and feeling dead : Stress but not death reminders elicit endocrine responses

Stressors and mortality salience share considerable conceptual overlap. Thus, we examined the impact of a standard mortality salience and a standard stress manipulation on the activation of the sympathetic nervous system and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis via endocrine measures of stress; a neutral control condition completed the design. The results revealed that stress elicits increased salivary α-amylase and salivary cortisol reactions; however, no endocrine reactions were found in the mortality salience and the control conditions. To the contrary, we did not find any differences regarding positive and negative affect between any conditions. Implications for social and health psychology are being discussed.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:46

Enthalten in:

Death studies - 46(2022), 2 vom: 02., Seite 442-449

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Buttlar, Benjamin [VerfasserIn]
Walther, Eva [VerfasserIn]
Pohl, Christine [VerfasserIn]
Gierens, Andrea [VerfasserIn]

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Date Completed 18.04.2022

Date Revised 18.04.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1080/07481187.2020.1740829

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM307671909