Married couples in supportive relationships felt significantly less stressed while watching horror movie clips with their partner than without, as measured by pupil dilation.
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Depression symptoms rise over time when facing multiple conditions that need different types of self-care, especially among husbands whose conditions differ from their wives', revealed new study.
Depression symptoms rise over time when facing multiple conditions that need different types of self-care, especially among husbands whose conditions differ from their wives', revealed new study.
‘Horror video clips elicited a stress response and there were significant differences between the support and non-support conditions, and marital relationship quality conditions.’
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Eighty-three couples (166 participants) were quasi-grouped in this study, based on a self-reported multidimensional relationship quality scale, to either supportive or ambivalent marital relationship conditions.Read More..
They were then randomized to either spousal support (i.e., handholding) or non-support (spousal absence) condition and watched clips from both horror and nature movies while pupil dilation was measured.
Results shown that the horror video clips elicited a stress response and there were significant differences between the support and non-support conditions, as well as marital relationship quality conditions.
These results suggest the precision, speed, and sensitivity of pupillometry as a potentially fruitful method to investigate the causal mechanisms linking stress buffering and supportive marital relationships
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