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Koudela-Hamila, Susanne; Smyth, Joshua; Santangelo, Philip; Ebner-Priemer, Ulrich – Journal of American College Health, 2022
Objective: Academic examinations are a frequent and significant source of student stress, but multimodal, psychophysiological studies are still missing. Participants & methods: Psychological and physiological variables were assessed on 154 undergraduate students in daily life using e-diaries resp. blood pressure devices at the beginning of the…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Physiology, Test Anxiety, Undergraduate Students
Sparks, Sarah D. – Education Week, 2012
The stress of a spelling bee or a challenging science project can enhance a student's focus and promote learning. But the stress of a dysfunctional or unstable home life can poison a child's cognitive ability for a lifetime, according to new research. Those studies show that stress forms the link between childhood adversity and poor academic…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Stress Variables, Family Life, Negative Attitudes
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Buss, Kristin A.; Davidson, Richard J.; Kalin, Ned H.; Goldsmith, H. Hill – Developmental Psychology, 2004
The putative association between fear-related behaviors and peripheral sympathetic and neuroendocrine reactivity has not been replicated consistently. This inconsistency was addressed in a reexamination of the characterization of children with extreme fearful reactions by focusing on the match between distress behaviors and the eliciting context.…
Descriptors: Metabolism, Fear, Toddlers, Psychophysiology