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Vigilance to a persisting personal threat: unmasking cardiovascular consequences in adolescents with the Social Competence Interview.

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Ewart, CK; Jorgensen, RS; Schroder, KE; Suchday, S; Sherwood, A
Published in: Psychophysiology
September 2004

We report the first systematic study of hemodynamic responses to the Social Competence Interview, using the original Ewart protocol, which focuses attention on a persisting personal threat. Physiologic changes in 212 African American and Caucasian urban adolescents during the Social Competence Interview, mirror tracing, and reaction time tasks showed that the Social Competence Interview elicits a pronounced vasoconstrictive response pattern, with diminished cardiac activity, that is more typical of alert mental vigilance than of active coping. This pattern was observed in all race and gender subgroups. Results suggest that the Social Competence Interview may be a broadly useful procedure for investigating the role of threat-induced vigilance in cardiovascular and other diseases.

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Psychophysiology

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ISSN

0048-5772

Publication Date

September 2004

Volume

41

Issue

5

Start / End Page

799 / 804

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • White People
  • United States
  • Social Behavior
  • Reaction Time
  • Male
  • Humans
  • Hemodynamics
  • Female
  • Experimental Psychology
  • Black People
 

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Ewart, C. K., Jorgensen, R. S., Schroder, K. E., Suchday, S., & Sherwood, A. (2004). Vigilance to a persisting personal threat: unmasking cardiovascular consequences in adolescents with the Social Competence Interview. Psychophysiology, 41(5), 799–804. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8986.2004.00199.x
Ewart, Craig K., Randall S. Jorgensen, Kerstin E. Schroder, Sonia Suchday, and Andrew Sherwood. “Vigilance to a persisting personal threat: unmasking cardiovascular consequences in adolescents with the Social Competence Interview.Psychophysiology 41, no. 5 (September 2004): 799–804. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8986.2004.00199.x.
Ewart CK, Jorgensen RS, Schroder KE, Suchday S, Sherwood A. Vigilance to a persisting personal threat: unmasking cardiovascular consequences in adolescents with the Social Competence Interview. Psychophysiology. 2004 Sep;41(5):799–804.
Ewart, Craig K., et al. “Vigilance to a persisting personal threat: unmasking cardiovascular consequences in adolescents with the Social Competence Interview.Psychophysiology, vol. 41, no. 5, Sept. 2004, pp. 799–804. Pubmed, doi:10.1111/j.1469-8986.2004.00199.x.
Ewart CK, Jorgensen RS, Schroder KE, Suchday S, Sherwood A. Vigilance to a persisting personal threat: unmasking cardiovascular consequences in adolescents with the Social Competence Interview. Psychophysiology. 2004 Sep;41(5):799–804.
Journal cover image

Published In

Psychophysiology

DOI

ISSN

0048-5772

Publication Date

September 2004

Volume

41

Issue

5

Start / End Page

799 / 804

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • White People
  • United States
  • Social Behavior
  • Reaction Time
  • Male
  • Humans
  • Hemodynamics
  • Female
  • Experimental Psychology
  • Black People