Modern Psychological Studies
Periodical Title
Modern Psychological Studies
Volume
11
Number
2
Page Numbers
pages 25-36
Publisher
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Place of Publication
Chattanooga (Tenn.)
Date
2006
Abstract
The present study investigated the effects of strength of social network on physiological stress during a cognitive task. Participants were randomly assigned to a timed or untimed word search task. The dependent variables were heart rate and participants' perceptions of the difficulty of their word search task. Participants in the high stress condition reported performing significantly worse on the word search task than those in the low stress condition. Participants perceived the task to be less difficult when in the high social network group as compared to the low social network group. While there were no significant findings for the heart rate measure, there was an interesting pattern. For the high stress condition, participants with a low social network had slightly higher heart rates than participants with a high social network.
Subject
Psychology
Discipline
Psychology
Document Type
article
DCMI Type
Text
Extent
12 leaves
Language
English
Call Number
BF1 .M63 v. 11 no. 2 2006
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Recommended Citation
Levitt, Amy R.
(2006)
"An investigation into the effects of social network strength and stress level on cardiovascular responses in colleges students,"
Modern Psychological Studies: Vol. 11:
No.
2, Article 4.
Available at:
https://scholar.utc.edu/mps/vol11/iss2/4
Department
Dept. of Psychology