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

Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc- Université Catholique de Louvain

Status: Completed

Conditions: Psychological Stress

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00451126

personalityandcortisol

Details and patient eligibility

About

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

Sex: Male

Ages: 18 to 30 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Students

Exclusion criteria

• Female,
• Smokers,
• Medication or alcohol abuse