Gender and Communal Trait Differences in the Relations Among Social Behaviour, Affect Arousal, and Cardiac Autonomic Control

• Published in: Journal of behavioral medicine Vol. 28; no. 3; pp. 267 - 279
• Main Authors: D’Antono, Bianca, Moskowitz, D. S., Miners, Christopher, Archambault, Jennifer
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY Springer 01.06.2005; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Arousal; Arrhythmia, Sinus; Behavior. Attitude; Biological and medical sciences; Cardiovascular Physiological Phenomena; Coronary Disease - psychology; Emotions; Female; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Heart Rate; Hostility; Humans; Interpersonal Relations; Male; Multivariate Analysis; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Regression Analysis; Respiration; Sex; Social Behavior; Social psychology; Stress, Psychological - physiopathology; Affect affectivity; Arrhythmia; communion; Sex; Cardiovascular disease; gender differences; Social behavior; Autonomic nervous system; Heart disease; Arousal; Hostility; Human; RSA; Healthy subject; Personality; Sinus arrhythmia; Student; Sharing behavior; Stress; Heart rate; cardiovascular reactivity; Social interaction; Sociodemographic factor; Young adult; Hemodynamics; affect arousal; Comparative study

To examine the relation between social behaviour and vagal activity, the communal behaviour of healthy college men (N = 33) and women (N = 33) was manipulated while monitoring heart rate (HR) and respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA). The subjects were classified as low or high on communal trait. Commu...