Relationships between drinking habits, psychological resilience, and salivary cortisol responses on the Trier Social Stress Test-Online among Japanese people.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study aimed to determine whether individual differences in resilience interacted with those in alcohol consumption habits in situations involving exposure to psychosocial stressors (Trier Social Stress Test-Online; TSST-OL). Additionally, we investigated whether individuals exhibiting resilience in their psychological scale scores showed biological responses that could be interpreted as resilience in stressful situations, such as the TSST-OL. We hypothesized that there would be no association between drinking habits and stress responses in the high-resilience group. Furthermore, high drinking habits would be associated with high stress responses in the low-resilience group.

Methods

We recruited 22 and 20 individuals from the high and low-resilience groups, re

SUBMITTER: Ueno M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10464479 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature