Interactions of momentary thought content and subjective stress predict cortisol fluctuations in a daily life experience sampling study.

ABSTRACT: Daily life stress is an omnipresent phenomenon in modern society. Research has linked prolonged activation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis to psychiatric and somatic diseases. Everyday stressors substantially contribute to these health risks. Despite the notion that the physiological stress response is highly dependent on concurrent psychological processes, investigations associating diurnal cortisol levels with subjective experience have primarily focused on affective states. The impact of everyday cognitive processes including thought content has been largely neglected. To investigate this link, moment-to-moment associations of psychological experience including subjective stress, thought content and affect, and cortisol levels were assessed throughout the daily routines of 28

SUBMITTER: Linz R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6193976 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature