Journal article
Affective instability in daily life is predicted by resting heart rate variability
P Koval, B Ogrinz, P Kuppens, O Van Den Bergh, F Tuerlinckx, S Sütterlin
Plos One | PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE | Published : 2013
Abstract
Previous research has shown that being affectively unstable is an indicator of several forms of psychological maladjustment. However, little is known about the mechanisms underlying affective instability. Our research aims to examine the possibility that being prone to extreme fluctuations in one's feelings is related to maladaptive emotion regulation. We investigated this hypothesis by relating affective instability, assessed in daily life using the experience sampling method, to self-reported emotion regulation strategies and to parasympathetically mediated heart rate variability (HRV), a physiological indicator of emotion regulation capacity. Results showed that HRV was negatively related..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This research was supported by KU Leuven Research Council Grant GOA/10/02 and OT/11/31 and ESA-PRODEX grant. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.