TY - JOUR
KW - Psychoneuroimmunology
KW - Cellular immune response
KW - Stress
KW - Coping
KW - Personality
AU - Adela Fusté-Escolano
AU - José Ruiz-Rodríguez
AB - The main aim of this exploratory study is to scrutinize the relationship between biologically- based personality dimensions, mood as selfperception of a state of arousal, coping strategies, and cellular immune response measured by a delayed hypersensitivity skin test. Several questionnaires for testing their basic personality features, their coping strategies, and their self-perceived state of arousal were administered to a sample of 23 students. The magnitude of the inflammarory triggered by Dinitroclorobenzene was also registered as well. Results show a lack of relationship between personality dimensions and inflammatory response. In addition, there is a negative relationship between coping strategies, as “seeking social support” and “planning a response”, and the degree of swelling of the inflammatory response. These results would be interpreted in terms of a better control of inflammatory mechanisms by non-immunological processes. Such results may open future pathways for new researches in other to a better study of the relationship between coping strategies and immune system.
IS - 2-3
M3 - Journal article
N2 - The main aim of this exploratory study is to scrutinize the relationship between biologically- based personality dimensions, mood as selfperception of a state of arousal, coping strategies, and cellular immune response measured by a delayed hypersensitivity skin test. Several questionnaires for testing their basic personality features, their coping strategies, and their self-perceived state of arousal were administered to a sample of 23 students. The magnitude of the inflammarory triggered by Dinitroclorobenzene was also registered as well. Results show a lack of relationship between personality dimensions and inflammatory response. In addition, there is a negative relationship between coping strategies, as “seeking social support” and “planning a response”, and the degree of swelling of the inflammatory response. These results would be interpreted in terms of a better control of inflammatory mechanisms by non-immunological processes. Such results may open future pathways for new researches in other to a better study of the relationship between coping strategies and immune system.
PB - Sociedad Española para el Estudio de la Ansiedad y el Estrés
PY - 2000
SN - 2174-0437/1134-7937
SP - 169
EP - 189
T2 - Ansiedad y Estrés
TI - Relationship between immune cell response, self-perceived stress, and coping strategies
VL - 6
ER -