Hormonal Responses to Psychological Stress in Men Preparing for Skydiving1
| العنوان: | Hormonal Responses to Psychological Stress in Men Preparing for Skydiving1 |
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| المؤلفون: | Yu Cai Lu, Gerald A. Hudgens, Robert T. Chatterton, Kirsten M. Vogelsong |
| المصدر: | The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism. 82:2503-2509 |
| بيانات النشر: | The Endocrine Society, 1997. |
| سنة النشر: | 1997 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | medicine.medical_specialty, Sympathetic nervous system, business.industry, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Biochemistry (medical), Clinical Biochemistry, Biochemistry, Endocrinology, medicine.anatomical_structure, Internal medicine, Jump, Medicine, Anxiety, Stress measures, Salivary alpha-Amylases, medicine.symptom, business, Testosterone, Hydrocortisone, medicine.drug, Morning |
| الوصف: | The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between the hormonal and psychological responses of young men about to engage in a potentially life-threatening event. Subjects were recruited to take their first skydiving jump. The scores on questionnaires designed to assess anxiety were not significantly increased at 0800 h on the morning before the jump by comparison with scores obtained from the same subjects 3–5 days previously. However, a psychological instrument for rating of events indicated significantly increased intensity, and sympathetic nervous system activity, as measured by the salivary amylase response, was increased over self-control values. Salivary cortisol and testosterone levels were significantly lower on the morning of the jump than self-control values and values in control subjects determined at the same time of day. However, plasma LH was not suppressed. The anxiety and stress measures as well as the rating of events rose to high levels just before the jump. With the except... |
| تدمد: | 1945-7197 0021-972X |
| DOI: | 10.1210/jcem.82.8.4133 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::d3b4220fc90ffb7ea86a672eddd6ac62 https://doi.org/10.1210/jcem.82.8.4133 |
| Rights: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi...........d3b4220fc90ffb7ea86a672eddd6ac62 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 19457197 0021972X |
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| DOI: | 10.1210/jcem.82.8.4133 |