0000000000625215
AUTHOR
Martina Zandara
Assessing the antecedents and consequences of threat appraisal of an acute psychosocial stressor: the role of optimism, displacement behavior, and physiological responses.
The feeling of stress is increasing in today's societies, particularly in young adults subjected to social evaluative situations in highly competitive academic and work contexts. Threat appraisal is a primary and fundamental reaction when people face a stressful situation. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of dispositional optimism as an antecedent and displacement behavior as a consequence of threat appraisal of a social-evaluative situation of stress. A second objective was to verify the moderating role of physiological responses to stress (heart rate and cortisol reactivity) in the relationship between threat appraisal and displacement behavior. To do this, we combined th…
Effect of psychosocial stress on cognitive processing and non-verbal behavior: the role of the autonomic nervous system and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. Antecedents and consequences of psychological and physiological stress in a group of healthy young adults
In the current society stress is highly increasing among young adult people. Indeed, they can be constantly subjected to social evaluative situations (job interviews/exams/performance evaluations) due to the increased competitiveness in the job market. Generally, individuals feel stress when external situations exceed their ability to cope with it. Anything that might be a challenge or a threat to well-being is a stressor. Some stressors are good for people’s life. Indeed, short term stress response permits the organism to mobilise energy to fight or flee from a threat enhancing its chances of survival (Cannon, 1932). On the other hand, some stressors are maladaptive and if prolonged over t…