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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Health Psychology

Background:

  • Self-affirmation is a psychological technique known to mitigate defensive reactions to ego-threatening situations.
  • Interpersonal evaluation represents a significant form of ego threat, potentially eliciting stress responses.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether self-affirmation can reduce physiological stress responses to interpersonal evaluation.
  • To examine the impact of self-affirmation on cardiovascular activity following social feedback.

Main Methods:

  • Participants received either neutral or insulting feedback on an essay.
  • A self-affirmation manipulation involved writing about a core personal value.
  • Cardiovascular measures, including mean arterial blood pressure and heart rate, were monitored.

Main Results:

  • Mean arterial blood pressure increased upon evaluation and returned to baseline more rapidly after self-affirmation.
  • Insulting feedback elevated heart rate, but this effect was attenuated by self-affirmation.
  • Self-affirmation appeared to facilitate faster recovery of cardiovascular activity.

Conclusions:

  • Self-affirmation can effectively reduce physiological stress responses to interpersonal evaluation.
  • The findings suggest self-affirmation aids in the regulation of cardiovascular activity post-social feedback.
  • This highlights a potential benefit of self-affirmation for managing social-evaluative stress.