Can decision-making skills affect responses to psychological stress in healthy women?

Psychoneuroendocrinology
Ana Santos-RuizMaria Isabel Peralta-Ramirez

Abstract

In recent studies showing how stress can affect an individual's decision-making process, the cognitive component of decision-making could also be considered a coping resource available to individuals when faced with a stressful situation. The Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) constitutes the standard test for the assessment of decision-making skills under conditions of uncertainty. Responses of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis to psychosocial stress, in turn, have been estimated by means of cortisol measurements. Our main objective in this study was to test if good and bad IGT performers show distinct HPA axis responses, when challenged in a classic psychosocial stress test. Because women have been shown to outperform men on the IGT under the influence of psychosocial stress, we chose a sample of 40 women to take the IGT before they were exposed to a public speaking task in a virtual environment. The activation of the HPA axis, involved in the stress response, was assessed by examining the levels of cortisol in the subjects' saliva at the following four stages: before the challenge, after the challenge, and 10 and 20 min after the task. Participants were divided into two groups according to their level of performance, good ...Continue Reading

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Jul 24, 2014·Clinical Endocrinology·Iris CrespoEugenia Resmini
Dec 29, 2016·PloS One·Marie E BreenVirginia L Willour
Feb 14, 2017·The Spanish Journal of Psychology·Ana Santos-RuizMaría Isabel Peralta-Ramírez
Jun 23, 2018·Stress : the International Journal on the Biology of Stress·Adrián Alacreu-CrespoMiguel Ángel Serrano
Apr 25, 2018·Frontiers in Psychology·Martin Geisler, Carl Martin Allwood
Apr 28, 2020·Journal of Affective Disorders·Carolina Baeza-VelascoPhilippe Courtet

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