Love can lower Blood Pressure .
When facing a stressful situation , thinking about romantic partner may help keep your blood pressure under control just as effectively having them in the room with you.
For à new study, researchers asked 102 participants to complete a stressful task_submerging once foot in to 3 inches of cold water ranging from 38 to 40 degrees Fahrenheit. Researchers measured participants blood pressure, heart rate and variability before, during, and after the task.
Researchers randomly assigned the participants, all of whom were in committed romantic relationship to one of three conditions when completing the task.they either had their significant other sitting quietly in the room during the task,they had to think about their romantic partner as a source of support during the task or they had to think about their day during the task.
OUTCOMES.
Those who had their partner physically present in the room or who thought about their partner had a lower blood pressure response to the stress of the cold water than the participants in the control group, who researchers told to think about their day.
Heart rate and heart rate variability did not vary between the three groups.
ONE WAY
BEING IN A
ROMANTIC
RELATIONSHIP
MIGHT
SUPPORT
PEOPLE'S
HEALTH IS
THROUGH
ALLOWING
PEOPLE TO
BETTER CURE
WITH
STRESS.
The effect On blood pressure reactivity was just as a powerful whether the partner or participants merely thought of them.
Although previous studies have suggested that having a partner present or visualising a partner can help the body's physiological response to stress, the new study suggested that the two things are equally effective_at least when it comes blood pressure reactivity.
The finding might help explain in part,why high quality romantic relationship are consistently associated with positive health outcomes in the scientific literature.
This suggests that one way being in a romantic relationship might support peoples to better cope with stress and lower levels of cardiovascular reactivity to stress a cross the day.
And its appears that thinking of your partner as a source of support can be just as powerful as actually having them present.
The study participants in research were college undergraduate in committed relationship.
Future studies should look at members of the general community unvarying age ranges. If researchers can replicate the finding, they could have implications for those facing everyday stressful situation.
Life is full of stress, and one critical way we can manage this stress is through our relationships either with our partner directly or by calling an a mental image of that person.
There are many situations including at work, with school exams,or even during medical procedures, where we could benefit from limiting our degree of blood pressure reactivity and these finding suggest that a relational approach to doing so can be quite powerful.
For à new study, researchers asked 102 participants to complete a stressful task_submerging once foot in to 3 inches of cold water ranging from 38 to 40 degrees Fahrenheit. Researchers measured participants blood pressure, heart rate and variability before, during, and after the task.
Researchers randomly assigned the participants, all of whom were in committed romantic relationship to one of three conditions when completing the task.they either had their significant other sitting quietly in the room during the task,they had to think about their romantic partner as a source of support during the task or they had to think about their day during the task.
OUTCOMES.
Those who had their partner physically present in the room or who thought about their partner had a lower blood pressure response to the stress of the cold water than the participants in the control group, who researchers told to think about their day.
Heart rate and heart rate variability did not vary between the three groups.
ONE WAY
BEING IN A
ROMANTIC
RELATIONSHIP
MIGHT
SUPPORT
PEOPLE'S
HEALTH IS
THROUGH
ALLOWING
PEOPLE TO
BETTER CURE
WITH
STRESS.
The effect On blood pressure reactivity was just as a powerful whether the partner or participants merely thought of them.
Although previous studies have suggested that having a partner present or visualising a partner can help the body's physiological response to stress, the new study suggested that the two things are equally effective_at least when it comes blood pressure reactivity.
The finding might help explain in part,why high quality romantic relationship are consistently associated with positive health outcomes in the scientific literature.
This suggests that one way being in a romantic relationship might support peoples to better cope with stress and lower levels of cardiovascular reactivity to stress a cross the day.
And its appears that thinking of your partner as a source of support can be just as powerful as actually having them present.
The study participants in research were college undergraduate in committed relationship.
Future studies should look at members of the general community unvarying age ranges. If researchers can replicate the finding, they could have implications for those facing everyday stressful situation.
Life is full of stress, and one critical way we can manage this stress is through our relationships either with our partner directly or by calling an a mental image of that person.
There are many situations including at work, with school exams,or even during medical procedures, where we could benefit from limiting our degree of blood pressure reactivity and these finding suggest that a relational approach to doing so can be quite powerful.
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