TY - JOUR
T1 - Emotional Support and Physiological Stress Recovery
T2 - The Role of Support Matching, Adequacy, and Invisibility
AU - Priem, Jennifer S.
AU - Solomon, Denise Haunani
N1 - Funding Information:
The services provided by the General Clinical Research Center of the Pennsylvania State University are appreciated. The study was supported by NIH grant [M01 RR 10732] awarded to the first author.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 National Communication Association.
PY - 2015/1/2
Y1 - 2015/1/2
N2 - This study evaluated the effect of support matching, perceived support adequacy, and support invisibility on physiological stress recovery. Participants (N = 103) received supportive messages from a dating partner after completing a series of stressful tasks and receiving negative performance feedback. Participants reported their general preferences for emotional support before the interaction, and afterward they evaluated support adequacy and their partner's supportiveness during the interaction. Observers rated the emotional support provided, and salivary cortisol indexed changes in stress. As predicted, the positive association between a partner's provision of emotional support and rate of stress recovery was greater for people who reported a greater preference for emotional support, in general, and people who evaluated their partner's support during the interaction as more, compared to less, adequate. Contrary to expectations, support invisibility did not attenuate emotional support benefits.
AB - This study evaluated the effect of support matching, perceived support adequacy, and support invisibility on physiological stress recovery. Participants (N = 103) received supportive messages from a dating partner after completing a series of stressful tasks and receiving negative performance feedback. Participants reported their general preferences for emotional support before the interaction, and afterward they evaluated support adequacy and their partner's supportiveness during the interaction. Observers rated the emotional support provided, and salivary cortisol indexed changes in stress. As predicted, the positive association between a partner's provision of emotional support and rate of stress recovery was greater for people who reported a greater preference for emotional support, in general, and people who evaluated their partner's support during the interaction as more, compared to less, adequate. Contrary to expectations, support invisibility did not attenuate emotional support benefits.
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U2 - 10.1080/03637751.2014.971416
DO - 10.1080/03637751.2014.971416
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84921556231
VL - 82
SP - 88
EP - 112
JO - Communication Monographs
JF - Communication Monographs
SN - 0363-7751
IS - 1
ER -