TY - JOUR
T1 - Psychopathology, everyday behaviors, and autonomic activity in daily life
T2 - An ambulatory impedance cardiography study of depression, anxiety, and hypomanic traits
AU - Sperry, Sarah H.
AU - Kwapil, Thomas R.
AU - Eddington, Kari M.
AU - Silvia, Paul J.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by the National Institute of Mental Health of the National Institutes of Health under award number R15MH079374 . The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health. Some of these findings were presented at the annual meeting the Society for Research on Psychopathology. We're grateful to Roger Beaty, Ashley McHone, Zuzana Mironovová, and Emily Nusbaum for their assistance with this research.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2018/7
Y1 - 2018/7
N2 - Discrepancies regarding the link between autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity and psychopathology may be due in part to inconsistent measurement of non-psychological factors, including eating, drinking, activity, posture, and interacting with others. Rather than sources of noise, behaviors like being active and being with others may be the behavioral pathways that connect psychopathology symptoms to autonomic activity. The present study examined whether behaviors mediate the association of depression, anxiety, and hypomanic traits with ANS by using experience sampling methodology and ambulatory impedance cardiography. Participants (n = 49) completed measures of affect and one day of experience sampling and ambulatory impedance cardiography. The association of hypomanic traits with heart rate variability and heart rate was mediated by physical activity, and social activity mediated the association of depressive symptoms and respiration. These results highlight the importance of considering the pathways between psychopathology and ANS and the mediating role that everyday behaviors play.
AB - Discrepancies regarding the link between autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity and psychopathology may be due in part to inconsistent measurement of non-psychological factors, including eating, drinking, activity, posture, and interacting with others. Rather than sources of noise, behaviors like being active and being with others may be the behavioral pathways that connect psychopathology symptoms to autonomic activity. The present study examined whether behaviors mediate the association of depression, anxiety, and hypomanic traits with ANS by using experience sampling methodology and ambulatory impedance cardiography. Participants (n = 49) completed measures of affect and one day of experience sampling and ambulatory impedance cardiography. The association of hypomanic traits with heart rate variability and heart rate was mediated by physical activity, and social activity mediated the association of depressive symptoms and respiration. These results highlight the importance of considering the pathways between psychopathology and ANS and the mediating role that everyday behaviors play.
KW - Ambulatory assessment
KW - Ambulatory psychophysiology
KW - Experience sampling methodology
KW - Heart rate variability
KW - Impedance cardiography
KW - PEP
KW - RMSSD
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2018.04.008
DO - 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2018.04.008
M3 - Article
C2 - 29680522
AN - SCOPUS:85046141752
SN - 0167-8760
VL - 129
SP - 67
EP - 75
JO - International Journal of Psychophysiology
JF - International Journal of Psychophysiology
ER -