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Impact of self-esteem and sex on stress reactions
Positive self-evaluation is a major psychological resource modulating stress coping behavior. Sex differences have been reported in self-esteem as well as stress reactions, but so far their interactions have not been investigated. Therefore, we investigated sex-specific associations of self-esteem a...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5722874/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29222516 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-17485-w |
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author | Kogler, Lydia Seidel, Eva-Maria Metzler, Hannah Thaler, Hanna Boubela, Roland N. Pruessner, Jens C. Kryspin-Exner, Ilse Gur, Ruben C. Windischberger, Christian Moser, Ewald Habel, Ute Derntl, Birgit |
author_facet | Kogler, Lydia Seidel, Eva-Maria Metzler, Hannah Thaler, Hanna Boubela, Roland N. Pruessner, Jens C. Kryspin-Exner, Ilse Gur, Ruben C. Windischberger, Christian Moser, Ewald Habel, Ute Derntl, Birgit |
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description | Positive self-evaluation is a major psychological resource modulating stress coping behavior. Sex differences have been reported in self-esteem as well as stress reactions, but so far their interactions have not been investigated. Therefore, we investigated sex-specific associations of self-esteem and stress reaction on behavioral, hormonal and neural levels. We applied a commonly used fMRI-stress task in 80 healthy participants. Men compared to women showed higher activation during stress in hippocampus, precuneus, superior temporal gyrus (STG) and insula. Furthermore, men outperformed women in the stress task and had higher cortisol and testosterone levels than women after stress. Self-esteem had an impact on precuneus, insula and STG activation during stress across the whole group. During stress, men recruit regions associated with emotion and stress regulation, self-referential processing and cognitive control more strongly than women. Self-esteem affects stress processing, however in a sex-independent fashion: participants with lower self-esteem show higher activation of regions involved in emotion and stress regulation, self-referential processing and cognitive control. Taken together, our data suggest that men are more engaged during the applied stress task. Across women and men, lower self-esteem increases the effort in emotion and stress processing and cognitive control, possibly leading to self-related thoughts in stressful situations. |
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spelling | pubmed-57228742017-12-12 Impact of self-esteem and sex on stress reactions Kogler, Lydia Seidel, Eva-Maria Metzler, Hannah Thaler, Hanna Boubela, Roland N. Pruessner, Jens C. Kryspin-Exner, Ilse Gur, Ruben C. Windischberger, Christian Moser, Ewald Habel, Ute Derntl, Birgit Sci Rep Article Positive self-evaluation is a major psychological resource modulating stress coping behavior. Sex differences have been reported in self-esteem as well as stress reactions, but so far their interactions have not been investigated. Therefore, we investigated sex-specific associations of self-esteem and stress reaction on behavioral, hormonal and neural levels. We applied a commonly used fMRI-stress task in 80 healthy participants. Men compared to women showed higher activation during stress in hippocampus, precuneus, superior temporal gyrus (STG) and insula. Furthermore, men outperformed women in the stress task and had higher cortisol and testosterone levels than women after stress. Self-esteem had an impact on precuneus, insula and STG activation during stress across the whole group. During stress, men recruit regions associated with emotion and stress regulation, self-referential processing and cognitive control more strongly than women. Self-esteem affects stress processing, however in a sex-independent fashion: participants with lower self-esteem show higher activation of regions involved in emotion and stress regulation, self-referential processing and cognitive control. Taken together, our data suggest that men are more engaged during the applied stress task. Across women and men, lower self-esteem increases the effort in emotion and stress processing and cognitive control, possibly leading to self-related thoughts in stressful situations. Nature Publishing Group UK 2017-12-08 /pmc/articles/PMC5722874/ /pubmed/29222516 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-17485-w Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Kogler, Lydia Seidel, Eva-Maria Metzler, Hannah Thaler, Hanna Boubela, Roland N. Pruessner, Jens C. Kryspin-Exner, Ilse Gur, Ruben C. Windischberger, Christian Moser, Ewald Habel, Ute Derntl, Birgit Impact of self-esteem and sex on stress reactions |
title | Impact of self-esteem and sex on stress reactions |
title_full | Impact of self-esteem and sex on stress reactions |
title_fullStr | Impact of self-esteem and sex on stress reactions |
title_full_unstemmed | Impact of self-esteem and sex on stress reactions |
title_short | Impact of self-esteem and sex on stress reactions |
title_sort | impact of self-esteem and sex on stress reactions |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5722874/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29222516 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-17485-w |
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