Avoidant coping style and verbal-cardiovascular response dissociation

摘要: Abstract This study explored the relationship between an avoidant coping style and three responses during experimental periods (i.e., speech preparation, delivery, recovery). One response was cardiovascular reactivity, two other were subjective in nature: self-reports of anxiety self-estimations blood pressure. Subjects 20 male female students who scored either upper third high-avoiders) or lower low-avoiders) on cognitive avoidance (Krohne, 1989). When compared to subjects scoring low avoidance, those high showed greater systolic pressure (SBP) reactivity evidenced verbal-autonomic dissociation across all periods. That is, their SBP increases stronger relation self-reported anxiety. Verbal-autonomic dissociation, however, did not occur for estimations SBP, suggesting that autonomic reflec...