Cardiac stress reactivity and recovery of novelty seekers

Mirka Hintsanen; Sampsa Puttonen; Petrus Järvinen; Laura Pulkki-Råback; Marko Elovainio; Päivi Merjonen; Liisa Keltikangas-Järvinen

doi:10.1007/s12529-009-9034-8

Cardiac stress reactivity and recovery of novelty seekers

Mirka Hintsanen^*
, Sampsa Puttonen
, Petrus Järvinen
, Laura Pulkki-Råback
, Marko Elovainio
, Päivi Merjonen
, Liisa Keltikangas-Järvinen

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Background: Novelty seeking temperament has been associated with higher coronary heart disease risk factors, but the mechanism behind the association is open. Cardiac stress response is a potential candidate. Purpose: Cardiac stress reactivity and recovery was studied in 29 healthy subjects (aged 22-37 years) scoring extremely high (n=16) or extremely low (n=13) on temperamental dimension of novelty seeking. Method: Heart rate, respiratory sinus arrhythmia, and pre-ejection period were measured during challenging tasks. Differences in cardiac reactivity and recovery between the novelty seeking groups were examined with repeated-measures and univariate analyses. Results: The main finding was that stress reactivity did not differ between high and low novelty seeking groups, but high novelty seekers tended to show faster recovery, which is likely to be parasympathetically mediated. Conclusion: The findings suggest that high novelty seekers may be more stress resilient because they might have faster cardiac recovery after stress. Cardiac stress reactivity seems not to be among the explaining factors for the association between novelty seeking and coronary heart disease risk factors.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	236-240
Number of pages	5
Journal	International Journal of Behavioral Medicine
Volume	16
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s12529-009-9034-8
Publication status	Published - 2009
Externally published	Yes
Publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Funding

Acknowledgements This study was supported by the Academy of Finland (grants 111056 and 124399 for L.K.-J.), the Research Funds of the University of Helsinki (project no 2106012 for L.P.-R.), Finnish Graduate School of Psychology (P.M.), Signe and Ane Gyllenberg foundation (L.K.J. and M.H.), Yrjö Jahnsson foundation (L.K.J. and M.H.), and Alfred Kordelin Foundation (P.M.).

Keywords

Autonomic nervous system
Cardiac reactivity
Cardiac recovery
Novelty seeking
Temperament

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Applied Psychology

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