Threat-related motivational disengagement: Integrating blunted cardiovascular reactivity to stress into the biopsychosocial model of challenge and threat.

Conclusion: We argue that blunted cardiovascular reactivity represents deficient task engagement, and more generally, motivational disengagement due to threat states. Our biopsychosocial model-based approach conceptualizes this motivational disengagement as a tendency to avoid motivated performance situations. This tendency may represent a defense mechanism against subsequent threat and might explain associations with disorders like clinical depression.
PMID: 32329356 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Anxiety, Stress, and Coping - April 23, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Hase A, Aan Het Rot M, de Miranda Azevedo R, Freeman P Tags: Anxiety Stress Coping Source Type: research