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

Moderating Impact of Various Emotion Personality Factors on Salivary Cortisol

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT00451126

Acronym

cortpersonal

Enrollment

Registered

2007-03-23

Start date

2005-10-31

Completion date

2006-01-31

Last updated

2007-03-23

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Conditions

Psychological Stress

Keywords

emotion, personality, social stress, appraisal

Brief summary

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

Interventions

None listed

Study design

Observational model

NATURAL_HISTORY

Time perspective

OTHER

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

MALE

Age

18 Years to 30 Years

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* Students

Exclusion criteria

* Female, * Smokers, * Medication or alcohol abuse

Countries

Belgium

Outcome results