Trait Mindfulness and Cardiovascular Reactivity and Recovery During a Laboratory Mental Stress Protocol in Young Adults
Year: 2018
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Mendis, Puska, & Norrving, 2011), and has risk factors including high blood pressure (Benjamin et al., 2017), high resting heart rate (Aune et al., 2017), decreased heart rate variability (HRV) (Thayer, Yamamoto, & Brosschot, 2010), and stress (Lagraauw, Kuiper, & Bot, 2015;Spruill, 2010).Exaggerated cardiovascular reactivity (CVR), and delayed cardiovascular recovery in response to stress, is also believed to be a risk factor for heart disease.Further, the magnitude of CVR predicts other risk factors such as high blood pressure and heart rate (Brindle et al., 2016;Moseley & Linden, 2006).It has been demonstrated that cardiovascular reactivity can be attenuated with mindfulness interventions, which have been used as a means to reduce mental stress (Nyklíček, Mommersteeg, Van Beugen, Ramakers, & Van Boxtel, 2013;Steffen & Larson, 2015;Khoury, Sharma, Rush, & Fournier, 2015).Because mindfulness interventions are associated with reduced stress, attenuated reactivity, and faster recovery, it was hypothesized that high levels of trait mindfulness should also be associated with these benefits.Participants were 99 college students (22 male), aged 19.44 (SD = 1.44), from a Midwestern university.Trait mindfulness was assessed using the Five Facet Mindfulness Questionnaire (FFMQ) and stress was assessed using the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS).The laboratory stress protocol included a 10-minute baseline, a 5-minute speeded arithmetic stress task and a 14-minute recovery period.
Author: Ede, David E, Jr.
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6996968005