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Clinical Trial
. 2007 Aug;65(2):167-73.
doi: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2007.03.005. Epub 2007 Mar 14.

Interoceptive awareness, anxiety and cardiovascular reactivity to isometric exercise

Olga Pollatos  1 , Beate M Herbert, Christian Kaufmann, Dorothee P Auer, Rainer Schandry
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Clinical Trial

Interoceptive awareness, anxiety and cardiovascular reactivity to isometric exercise

Olga Pollatos et al. Int J Psychophysiol. 2007 Aug.

Abstract

The present study was designed to investigate the relation between cardiovascular reactivity, trait anxiety and the interoceptive awareness. Eighteen male subjects underwent a heartbeat perception task and performed an isometric handgrip exercise. Subjects with high reactivity showed a higher degree of interoceptive awareness and trait anxiety suggesting that a habitually increased sympathetic outflow might be one variable contributing to the establishment of high interoceptive awareness and trait anxiety.

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