What is it about?
This paper describes a lab study devoted to test the combined effect of self-efficacy, incentive value (outcome importance), and anxiety, on changes in cardiovascular system that appear while a person is performing a stressful task.
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Why is it important?
This experiment shows the complexity of the psychological processes (cognitive and emotional) that contribute to regulate the intensity of changes in biological systems as the cardiovascular system, which constitute one of the components of the stress response
Perspectives
This experimental study was done in the context of a research line aimed at identify the binding between psychological factors, stress, and the health.
Dr Antoni Sanz
Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
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This page is a summary of: Microanalysis of the relationship between goal self-efficacy and cardiovascular reactivity. A test for the moderating role of incentive value and the mediating role of anxiety, International Journal of Psychophysiology, October 2006, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2006.01.013.
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