… levels involved in stress assessed by self-reported stress task engagement mediated the …
cardiovascular stress reactivity, while threat appraisal of stress assessed by a ratio of stress …

… and cardiovascular reactivity, our measures of affect and task engagement did predict …
SBP and DBP reactivity and marginally with HR responses. Greater task engagement was …

… Cardiovascular measurements (heart rate (HR) and blood pressure (BP) and salivary
cortisol were used to assess their physiological response to an acute psychological stress task. …

… stress reactivity is and how we might best measure it. Second, we will focus on the early
research into exaggerated or high reactivity … or lack of stress task engagement in most individuals…

… tasks in the laboratory, it was hypothesized that lower levels of cardiovascular reactivity to an
acute psychological stress task would … of task engagement and depressive symptomology. …

… We found stability across sessions for stress-induced increases in anxiety and task engagement,
… The concept of stress reactivity refers to a stable individual difference in response to …

… on psychobiological stress reactivity. Specifically, the … engagement with the tasks requires
active coping, it was expected that multitasking stress would elicit the cardiovascular reactivity …

… physiological inability to respond to stress. Rather, it reflects … reactivity to stress consistent
with deficient task engagement … cardiovascular reactivity represents deficient task engagement, …

… task engagement in performance at the psychological and physiological levels. We accounted
for physiological task engagement by examining blunted cardiovascular reactivity, the …

… ERN to reflect task engagement. Hence, we expect both to relate positively to each other and
to personality traits that should increase the likelihood of high task engagement: behavioral …