The short Sing-a-Song Stress Test: A practical and valid test of autonomic responses induced by social-evaluative stress

The Sing-a-Song Stress Test (SSST) was recently developed as an alternative to the Trier Social Stress Test (TSST) to investigate autonomic nervous system responses to social-evaluative stress. In the SSST, participants are suddenly cued to sing a song in the presence of confederates. However, the SSST is still quite long (~15  min) and the requirement for confederates makes it labor-intensive. The current study tested whether a shorter (~6.5 min), single-experimenter, version of the SSST can still reliably elicit subjective and physiological stress reactivity.

Source: Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical - January 8, 2020 Category: Neuroscience Authors: D.J. van der Mee, Q. Duivestein, M.J. Gevonden, J.H.D.M. Westerink, E.J.C. de Geus Source Type: research