@article{ref1,
title="Anxiety, hostile attributions, and differences in heart rate response to ambiguous situational vignettes in adolescents",
journal="Emotion",
year="2018",
author="Banks, Donice M. and Scott, Brandon G. and Weems, Carl F.",
volume="18",
number="2",
pages="248-259",
abstract="Theoretically, subjective levels of anxiety and hostile attributions of intent may affect physiological responding to ambiguous social situations. This study examined youths' (n = 80 aged 11-17 years; 51% female; 37.5% African American) physiological responding (i.e., heart rate [HR]) to a series of animated vignettes depicting ambiguous social situations. Anxiety, aggression, hostile attributional bias (HAB), and their interactions were tested as predictors of differential physiological responding to the vignettes. <br><br>RESULTS indicated that there was differential physiological responding to the vignettes such that, as predicted, participants' hearts rates showed a pattern of deceleration followed by acceleration, similar to a threat response. There was support for elevated anxiety as a significant predictor of responses, but only among those participants with higher levels of HABs such that HRs remained elevated with very little deceleration across time. These results suggest a pattern of physiological hyperarousal and blunted reactivity for those with high anxiety and HABs indicating that that youths' interpretation of a situation may interact with subjective levels of anxiety to predict heart rate responses. (PsycINFO Database Record<br><br>(c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved).<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1528-3542",
doi="10.1037/emo0000352",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/emo0000352"
}