Controlling the emotional heart: Heart rate biofeedback improves cardiac control during emotional reactions

被引：32

作者：

Peira, Nathalie ^{[1
,2
]}

Fredrikson, Mats ^{[1
]}

Pourtois, Gilles ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Uppsala Univ, Dept Psychol, Uppsala, Sweden

[2] Univ Ghent, Dept Expt Clin & Hlth Psychol, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium

来源：

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY | 2014年 / 91卷 / 03期

基金：

瑞典研究理事会; 欧洲研究理事会;

关键词：

Biofeedback; Heart rate; Arousal control; Cardiac control; Emotion regulation; INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES; ANXIETY; FEAR; SUPPRESSION; EXPERIENCE; SCALE;

D O I：

10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2013.12.008

中图分类号：

B84 [心理学];

学科分类号：

04 ; 0402 ;

摘要：

When regulating negative emotional reactions, one goal is to reduce physiological reactions. However, not all regulation strategies succeed in doing that. We tested whether heart rate biofeedback helped participants reduce physiological reactions in response to negative and neutral pictures. When viewing neutral pictures, participants could regulate their heart rate whether the heart rate feedback was real or not. In contrast, when viewing negative pictures, participants could regulate heart rate only when feedback was real. Ratings of task success paralleled heart rate. Participants' general level of anxiety, emotion awareness, or cognitive emotion regulation strategies did not influence the results. Our findings show that accurate online heart rate biofeedback provides an efficient way to down-regulate autonomic physiological reactions when encountering negative stimuli. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：225 / 231

页数：7

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