Open Access<p>Sex Differences in Stress Reactivity to the Trier Social Stress Test in Virtual Reality</p>
Author(s) -
Qing Liu,
Wenjuan Zhang
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
psychology research and behavior management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.704
H-Index - 30
ISSN - 1179-1578
DOI - 10.2147/prbm.s268039
Subject(s) - trier social stress test , heart rate variability , analysis of variance , placebo , coping (psychology) , psychology , heart rate , visual analogue scale , psychosocial , affect (linguistics) , virtual reality , clinical psychology , audiology , medicine , fight or flight response , physical therapy , psychiatry , blood pressure , chemistry , biochemistry , alternative medicine , communication , pathology , artificial intelligence , computer science , gene
The aims of the present study were twofold: 1) to examine the effects of a virtual reality version of Trier Social Stress Test (TSST-VR) using a placebo as the control condition; 2) to delineate sex differences in psychophysiological responses following the TSST-VR.