Personality and Immune Reactivity to Acute Stress : A Pilot Study
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This article presents findings of a laboratory experiment upon association between acute stress and immunity responses. Twenty-eight female undergraduate students with three different personality types (Type A, Type B, and Type C or Cancer Personality;Eysenck, 1988) conducted a mental arithmetic task in a psychologically stressful situation. Salivary immunoglobulin A (s-IgA), oxygen radical absorbing capacity in saliva, and autonomic measures (heart rate and eyeblink activity) were evaluated before and after the stress manipulation. Generally, the acute stress increased volume of s-IgA and decreased oxygen radical absorbing capacity. The degree of these responses to stress was the least in Type A subjects. This suggests that individuals with Type A personality should be more vulnerable to acute stress.
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