The relationship of resilience and recovery indexes from stress on the autonomic nervous system

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25590188
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Clinical psychology
• Research Institution: Hiroshima University
• Principal Investigator: IWANAGA Makoto 広島大学, 総合科学研究科, 教授 (40203393)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: レジリエンス / ストレス / 自律神経系活動 / 対処方略 / 対処の柔軟性 / 適応性 / 精神的健康 / 回復性

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Resilience is the concept concerning to the recovery from stress. The present study examined the effect of resilience on coping flexibility and responses of the autonomic nervous system (ANS). Main findings were as follows. (1) Even if innate resilience was low, high acquired resilience facilitated recovery of subjective stress. (2) Resilience showed no recovery effects on responses of the ANS from the arithmetic task and the speech task. (3) Cognitive evaluation facilitated recovery on the ANS from the speech task more than distraction. These results showed that resilience had no recovery effect on the ANS activities. Employed experimental settings were an acute stress situation and low-loadings to elicit recovery effects.

Free Research Field

臨床心理学