呼吸练习在心理压力下对肌肉紧张和执行功能的急性影响
Wen-Ming Liang1,2, Jing Xiao2, Fei-Fei Ren3
1Department of Neurobiology and Biophysics, Life Sciences Center, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Frontiers in psychology
|June 12, 2023
概括
注意力和缓慢的呼吸练习在压力较大的办公室工作中并没有显著降低肌肉紧张. 然而,缓慢呼吸改善了男性的执行功能和反应时间,可能是通过提高氧和度.
科学领域:
- 职业健康 职业健康 职业健康 职业健康
- 神经科学是一个神经科学.
- 心理学 心理学 心理学
背景情况:
- 密集的办公室工作可能会导致肌肉和心理健康问题,由于工作场所的压力因素.
- 众所周知,正念和缓慢的呼吸练习可以减少心理压力并改善心理健康.
- 相反,快速呼吸可以增加神经元刺激能力.
研究的目的:
- 为了研究5分钟的正念呼吸,缓慢呼吸,快速呼吸和听音乐对肌肉紧张和执行功能的影响.
- 评估这些干预措施在办公室工作环境中要求严格的心理任务期间.
主要方法:
- 48名参与者 (24名男性,24名女性) 随机顺序进行了四次5分钟的干预 (音乐,正念呼吸,缓慢呼吸,快速呼吸).
- 通过表面肌电图测量肌肉张力,并使用Stroop测试评估执行功能.
- 记录了呼吸速率,氧和和潮尾二氧化碳;每次干预后都进行了Stroop测试.
主要成果:
- 在所有男性和女性的干预中,没有观察到对肌肉紧张或Stroop Test表现的显著平均影响.
- 与音乐和快速呼吸相比,男性在慢呼吸后的Stroop测试中显示出明显更高的准确性和更短的反应时间.
- 与音乐相比,缓慢呼吸会导致更高的氧和和更低的呼吸率,大多数男性更喜欢缓慢呼吸.
结论:
- 短呼吸练习在心理压力下并没有显著改变肌肉张力.
- 缓慢呼吸显示了男性维持执行功能的潜力,可能是由于呼吸效率和氧和度的提高.
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