Predicting acute stress recovery: A resilience index of physiological responses to Trier Social Stress Test
Liang L, Chen CX, Chan NY, Yau SY, Liu Y, Li SX, Wing YK, Lee TM, Hou WK
International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHP · 2026
What the research tells us
Combined cortisol, blood-pressure and heart-rate reactivity/recovery components into a proposed resilience index associated with mental-health measures. Heart rate and blood pressure showed different recovery comparisons with baseline.
Scope & interpretation
A derived index in one dataset needs independent validation. Baseline nonsignificance does not prove equivalence, and association with mental health does not establish intervention benefit.
Study at a glance
- POPULATION & SAMPLE
- 248 participants aged 18–45; 56.0% women; recruitment in Hong Kong.
- EXPOSURE / INTERVENTION / SUBJECT
- TSST; principal-component integration of physiological responses; predictor analysis.
- OUTCOMES
- Reactivity and recovery component scores, combined index and mental-health associations.
- TIME FRAME
- Acute task protocol; online December 2025, journal issue 2026.
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- Study funding
- Central Reserve Allocation Committee, The Education University of Hong Kong, grant 04A39 to W. K. Hou (as reported in the funding statement).
- Competing interests
- The authors declare no competing interests.
Project support
Founded and supported by Resilio.
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