Moderating Impact of Various Emotion Personality Factors on Salivary Cortisol Response to a TSST

Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc- Université Catholique de Louvain58 enrolled

Overview

With the aim of evaluating the putative impacts of emotion related personality factors on physical and mental disease and the mechanisms of these impacts, 58 students were submitted to a social stress test (Trier Social Stress Test) and salivary cortisol samples were taken. The subjects were also submitted to several personality trait inventory, that evaluated respectively Alexithymia, Emotional Intelligence, Resilience and the Five Factor Model of Personality. The moderating impact of these factors on the cortisol response were analysed

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

Conditions

Psychological Stress

Eligibility

Sex: MALEMin age: 18 YearsMax age: 30 YearsHealthy volunteers:

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Students Exclusion Criteria: * Female, * Smokers, * Medication or alcohol abuse

Locations (1)

Faculté de Psychologie, Université Catholique de Louvain

Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium