Understanding stress regulation in relation to pathological personality traits: The role of Detachment and Negative Affect

Results showed that individuals with high-trait detachment/negative affect report higher levels of perceived stress, blunted heart period to and incomplete recovery of stress, and an overall elevated negative emotional state during the TSST task, compared to the low-trait group CONCLUSION: The higher levels of perceived stress, an attenuated physiological stress response to and recovery of psychosocial stress, combined with an overall high negative affect in high-trait individuals warrants the development and testing of interventions that target the emotional and physiological risk profile associated with high levels of these pathological traits.