Physiological Resonance in Empathic Stress: Insights from Nonlinear Dynamics of Heart Rate Variability
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Participants
2.2. Protocol
2.3. Psychological Characteristics
2.4. Physiological Characteristics
2.4.1. Time-Domain and Frequency-Domain Cardiac Autonomic Markers
2.4.2. Complexity Marker of Heart Rate Variability Time Series
- (1)
- The RR time series is coarse grained considering overlapping windows to represent the initial time series on several time scales . Overlapping windows lead to coarse-grained series at each scale factor of .
- (2)
- At each scale factor of , the matched vector pairs, and are counted for all coarse-grained series, with ( in the present study) which corresponds to the sequence length chosen. This operation refers to the probability that vectors (sequences) of samples that are similar, remain similar with the increase of the sequence length to .
- (3)
- At a scale factor of , RCMSE is computed as follows, with , the tolerance value allowing to consider that vectors are matched. In the present work, of the standard deviation of the original time series:
2.5. Statistical Analyses
3. Results
3.1. Psychological Characteristics
3.2. Physiological Characteristics
3.2.1. Time-Domain and Frequency-Domain Cardiac Autonomic Markers
3.2.2. Complexity in Heart Rate Variability Time Series
3.3. Psychophysiological Keys in Observers-Targets Linkage
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Trait Empathy (Interpersonal Reactivity Index) | |
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Empathic concern | 20.5 ± 4.2 |
Personal distress | 11.7 ± 5.4 |
Perspective taking | 16.1 ± 4.5 |
Fantasy | 15.1 ± 5.8 |
Relationship closeness (inclusion of other in the self scale) | 2.6 ± 1.8 |
β | p Value | |
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ΔCM targets between Prepa and speech situations | 0.42 | 0.0089 |
ΔCM observers between CT and Prepa situations | −0.85 | 0.0003 |
Relationship closeness of observers with targets | −3.96 | 0.0003 |
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Blons, E.; Arsac, L.M.; Grivel, E.; Lespinet-Najib, V.; Deschodt-Arsac, V. Physiological Resonance in Empathic Stress: Insights from Nonlinear Dynamics of Heart Rate Variability. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2021, 18, 2081. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18042081
Blons E, Arsac LM, Grivel E, Lespinet-Najib V, Deschodt-Arsac V. Physiological Resonance in Empathic Stress: Insights from Nonlinear Dynamics of Heart Rate Variability. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2021; 18(4):2081. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18042081
Chicago/Turabian StyleBlons, Estelle, Laurent M. Arsac, Eric Grivel, Veronique Lespinet-Najib, and Veronique Deschodt-Arsac. 2021. "Physiological Resonance in Empathic Stress: Insights from Nonlinear Dynamics of Heart Rate Variability" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 4: 2081. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18042081