Year: 1991
Type: dissertation
Abstract: The purpose of the study was to determine whether finger \ntemperature is a useful and reliable measure of physiological \nrecovery from stress. The design was an ABA format in which days \none and three involved a stressor, while day two simply entailed \nsitting quietly. The three sessions were one week apart. Gender \ndifferences in finger temperature recovery were found, with the \nfinger temperature of females failing to return to baseline \nlevels ten minutes following the stressor. However, this gender \ndifference was also apparent on the control day, and thus it \nappears to reflect gender differences in baseline drift. The \nimplications of this gender difference in finger temperature \ndrift are discussed.
Author: Bonnie Kathleen Jeffery
Language: English
Subfield: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7065944236