Affective touch and regulation of stress responses
Autor: | Tara Kidd, Shaunna L. Devine, Susannah C. Walker |
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Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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Zdroj: | Health Psychology Review. 17:60-77 |
ISSN: | 1743-7202 1743-7199 |
Popis: | Much has been documented on the association between stress and health. Both direct and indirect pathways have been identified and explored extensively, helping us understand trajectories from healthy individuals to reductions in well-being, and development of preclinical and disease states. Some of these pathways are well established within the field; physiology, affect regulation, and social relationships. The purpose of this review is to push beyond what is known separately about these pathways and provide a means to integrate them using one common mechanism. We propose that social touch, specifically affective touch, may be the missing active ingredient fundamental to our understanding of |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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