• J Pers Soc Psychol · Nov 1997

    The effects of social context and defensiveness on the physiological responses of repressive copers.

    • S D Barger, J C Kircher, and R T Croyle.
    • Department of Psychology, University of Utah, USA. barger+@pitt.edu
    • J Pers Soc Psychol. 1997 Nov 1; 73 (5): 1118-28.

    AbstractIn previous research (T.L. Newton & R.J. Contrada, 1992), social context was found to moderate exaggerated physiological reactivity among individuals identified as using a repressive coping style. In this experiment, 119 undergraduates were classified into low-anxious, high-anxious, repressor, and defensive high-anxious coping categories. All participants completed a stressful speech task under either a public or private social context condition. The experimental social context was related to physiological reactivity and self-reported affect but did not moderate reactivity among repressive copers. Additionally, reactivity among repressive copers was not attributable to high defensiveness alone. Consistent with a theory of emotional inhibition, nonspecific skin conductance responses, but not heart rate, discriminated between repressors and nonrepressors.

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