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

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

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Key information

Conditions

Psychological Stress Behavior Behavioral Symptoms Stress, Psychological

Age range

18 year–30 year

Sex eligibility

Male

Study type

Observational

Primary location

Faculté de Psychologie, Université Catholique de Louvain

Louvain-la-Neuve, 1348, Belgium

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

Students

Exclusion criteria

Female,
Smokers,
Medication or alcohol abuse

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc- Université Catholique de Louvain

Other

Collaborators

Fonds National de la Recherche Scientifique

Registry information

Official study title

Moderating Impact of Various Emotion Personality Factors on Salivary Cortisol

Acronym: cortpersonal

Important dates

Study start: 2005
Study completion: 2006
First posted: Mar 23, 2007
Registry last updated: Mar 23, 2007

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