scholarly journals Real-time social stress response and subsequent alcohol use initiation among female adolescents.

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 254-265 ◽  
Author(s):  
Renee M. Cloutier ◽  
Heidemarie Blumenthal ◽  
Ryan S. Trim ◽  
Megan E. Douglas ◽  
Kristen G. Anderson
2011 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 462-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lindsay S. Ham ◽  
Hilary G. Casner ◽  
Amy K. Bacon ◽  
Jennifer A. Shaver

2011 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 325-336 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mattias Wallergård ◽  
Peter Jönsson ◽  
Gerd Johansson ◽  
Björn Karlson

One of the most common methods of inducing stress in the laboratory in order to examine the stress response in healthy and clinical populations is the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST). Briefly, the participant is asked to deliver a speech and to perform an arithmetic task in front of an evaluating committee. The committee, consisting of three trained actors, does not respond emotionally during the test, which makes the situation very stressful for the participant. One disadvantage of the TSST is that it can be difficult to hold the experimental conditions constant. In particular, it may be difficult for actors to hold their acting constant across all sessions. Furthermore, there are several practical problems and costs associated with hiring professional actors. A computerized version of the TSST using virtual humans could be a way to avoid these problems provided that it is able to induce a stress response similar to the one of the original TSST. The purpose of the present pilot study was therefore to investigate the stress response to a virtual reality (VR) version of the TSST visualized using an immersive VR system (VR-TSST). Seven healthy males with an average age of 24 years (range: 23–26 years) performed the VR-TSST. This included delivering a speech and performing an arithmetic task in front of an evaluating committee consisting of three virtual humans. The VR equipment was a CAVE equipped with stereoscopy and head tracking. ECG and respiration were recorded as well as the participant's behavior and comments. Afterward, a semi-structured interview was carried out. In general, the subjective and physiological data from the experiment indicated that the VR version of the TSST induced a stress response in the seven participants. In particular, the peak increase in heart rate was close to rates observed in studies using the traditional TSST with real actors. These results suggest that virtual humans visualized with an immersive VR system can be used to induce stress under laboratory conditions.


2021 ◽  
pp. 106994
Author(s):  
Kathleen Shyhalla ◽  
Danielle M. Smith ◽  
Angela Diaz ◽  
Anne Nucci-Sack ◽  
Mary Guillot ◽  
...  

1993 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 479-491 ◽  
Author(s):  
John K. Cochran

Homogeneous effects logistic regression is used to examine the effects of personal religiosity and denomination on adolescent self-reported frequency of alcohol use by beverage type. Survey data from a sample of 3,065 male and female adolescents in grades seven through twelve in three midwestern states are employed. The findings are somewhat consistent with a hypothesis generated from the different cultural images of alcoholic beverages. For adolescents, the use of beer and liquor are largely restricted to recreational purposes, while wine has both functional and recreational uses. Because purely recreational use of psychotropic substances violates religious standards of asceticism, the effects of religiosity on the use of beer and liquor should be stronger than on the use of wine. The results show that the effects of personal religiosity are weakest for use of wine, but are relatively identical for beer and liquor.


2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajani Ramesh Senad

The aim of the present study is to assess the stress and its four sub scale i.e. academic stress, social stress, family stress and financial stress of deprived (male and female) and Non-deprived (male and female) adolescent. The present study was carried out on 200 adolescents 100 deprived (male and female) and 100 Non deprived (male and female) with age range of 16 to 18 years. Results revealed that the Non deprived adolescents have higher level of total stress, academic stress and social stress than deprived adolescent students. The girls adolescent have higher level of total stress and academic stress than boys adolescents. There is no significant difference between deprived (male and female) and non deprived (male and female) adolescents with respect to family stress and financial stress. Regarding to social stress, there is no significant difference between male and female adolescents.


2018 ◽  
Vol 91 ◽  
pp. 159-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melynda D. Casement ◽  
Tina R. Goldstein ◽  
Sarah M. Gratzmiller ◽  
Peter L. Franzen

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan T. Egger ◽  
Marius Knorr ◽  
Julio Bobes ◽  
Abraham Bernstein ◽  
Erich Seifritz ◽  
...  

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document