ORIGINAL PAPER
Effect of stress on hand movement in a laboratory setting among high school students: preliminary research
1
Department of Cognitive Sciences, School of Intelligence, Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
2
Graduate School of Public Policy, Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
3
HY Digital Healthcare Center, Hanyang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
4
Department of Sports Science, Pusan National University, Pusan, Republic of Korea
5
Casa Paganini InfoMus Research Centre, Department of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics, and Systems Engineering, University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
6
Department of Physical Education, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
7
Department of Sports and Health Management, Mokwon University, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
Submission date: 2020-05-22
Acceptance date: 2020-12-08
Publication date: 2021-02-24
Hum Mov. 2022;23(2):28-37
KEYWORDS
TOPICS
ABSTRACT
Purpose:
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of stress on movement before and after a computer application-based simulated stress task.
Methods:
Differences in the movement of participants were examined by measuring movement quality described by wrist accumulated distance, velocity, acceleration, jerk, and smoothness. Ten high school students performed 3 horizontal and vertical hand circling movements before and after a simulated concentration-based stress task. Blood pressure was measured, and a saliva sample was collected before and after the stress test execution. The participants were instructed to take a 10-minute relaxation period, perform 3 horizontal and vertical circling movements, a 20-minute stress task, and then perform 3 horizontal and vertical movements.
Results:
There were significant differences between before- and after-stress-task levels of cortisol (p < 0.05), heart rate (p < 0.01), smoothness (p < 0.01), and jerk movements (p < 0.05) in the vertical plane. The stress-related variables were lower after the relaxation phase than the stress task. Likewise, movements were smoother and had less jerk in the vertical plane after relaxation.
Conclusions:
This study indicates that stress may affect hand movement quality in the vertical plane. Therefore, we recommend that any movement behaviour adaptive therapy should focus on movements in the vertical plane.
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of stress on movement before and after a computer application-based simulated stress task.
Methods:
Differences in the movement of participants were examined by measuring movement quality described by wrist accumulated distance, velocity, acceleration, jerk, and smoothness. Ten high school students performed 3 horizontal and vertical hand circling movements before and after a simulated concentration-based stress task. Blood pressure was measured, and a saliva sample was collected before and after the stress test execution. The participants were instructed to take a 10-minute relaxation period, perform 3 horizontal and vertical circling movements, a 20-minute stress task, and then perform 3 horizontal and vertical movements.
Results:
There were significant differences between before- and after-stress-task levels of cortisol (p < 0.05), heart rate (p < 0.01), smoothness (p < 0.01), and jerk movements (p < 0.05) in the vertical plane. The stress-related variables were lower after the relaxation phase than the stress task. Likewise, movements were smoother and had less jerk in the vertical plane after relaxation.
Conclusions:
This study indicates that stress may affect hand movement quality in the vertical plane. Therefore, we recommend that any movement behaviour adaptive therapy should focus on movements in the vertical plane.
REFERENCES (38)
1.
Lee S-Y, Hong JS, Espelage DL. An ecological understanding of youth suicide in South Korea. Sch Psychol Int. 2010;31(5):531–546; doi: 10.1177/0143034310382724.
3.
Park S-M, Cho S-I, Moon S-S. Factors associated with suicidal ideation: role of emotional and instrumental support. J Psychosom Res. 2010;69(4):389–397; doi: 10.1016/j.jpsychores.2010.03.002.
4.
Park HS, Schepp KG, Jang EH, Koo HY. Predictors of suicidal ideation among high school students by gender in South Korea. J Sch Health. 2006;76(5):181–188; doi: 10.1111/j.1746-1561.2006.00092.x.
5.
Casuso-Holgado MJ, Cuesta-Vargas AI, Moreno-Morales N, Labajos-Manzanares MT, Barón-López FJ, Vega-Cuesta M. The association between academic engagement and achievement in health sciences students. BMC Med Educ. 2013;13(1):33; doi: 10.1186/1472-6920-13-33.
6.
Lee JS. The relationship between student engagement and academic performance: is it a myth or reality? J Educ Res. 2014;107(3):177–185; doi: 10.1080/00220671.2013.807491.
7.
Fredricks JA, Blumenfeld PC, Paris AH. School engagement: potential of the concept, state of the evidence. Rev Educ Res. 2004;74(1):59–109; doi: 10.3102/00346543074001059.
8.
Shafir T. Using movement to regulate emotion: neurophysiological findings and their application in psychotherapy. Front Psychol. 2016;7:1451; doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01451.
9.
Piana S, Staglianò A, Camurri A, Odone F. A set of fullbody movement features for emotion recognition to help children affected by autism spectrum condition. IDGEI International Workshop. 2013.
10.
Schleifer LM, Ley R, Spalding TW. A hyperventilation theory of job stress and musculoskeletal disorders. Am J Ind Med. 2002;41(5):420–432; doi: 10.1002/ajim.10061.
11.
Lefter I, Burghouts GJ, Rothkrantz LJM. Recognizing stress using semantics and modulation of speech and gestures. IEEE Trans Affect Comput. 2016;7(2):162–175; doi: 10.1109/TAFFC.2015.2451622.
12.
Jayasinghe SU, Torres SJ, Nowson CA, Tilbrook AJ, Turner AI. Physiological responses to psychological stress: importance of adiposity in men aged 50–70 years. Endocr Connect. 2014;3(3):110–119; doi: 10.1530/EC-14-0042.
13.
Lawshe CH. A quantitative approach to content validity. Pers Psychol. 1975;28(4):563–575; doi: 10.1111/j.1744-6570.1975.tb01393.x.
14.
Gnambs T, Freund M. NEPS technical report for attention: administration of the Frankfurt Attention Inventory (FAIR) in starting cohort 4 (grade 9) for students with special educational needs. Bamberg: Leibniz Institute for Educational Trajectories; 2019.
15.
Ahn J-D, Han N-I, Kim J-W. Concentration variation through sport talented children’s training program [in Korean]. J Korea Contents Assoc. 2012;12(8):343–354; doi: 10.5392/JKCA.2012.12.08.343.
16.
Kim TY, Kim SY, Sohn JE, Lee EA, Yoo BG, Lee SC, et al. Development of the Korean Stroop Test and study of the validity and the reliability [in Korean]. J Korean Geriatr Soc. 2004;8(4):233–240.
17.
Heinen T. Do static-sport athletes and dynamic-sport athletes differ in their visual focused attention? Sport J. 2011;14(1).
18.
Hellhammer J, Schubert M. The physiological response to Trier Social Stress Test relates to subjective measures of stress during but not before or after the test. Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2012;37(1):119–124; doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2011.05.012.
19.
Bajaj JS, Heuman DM, Sterling RK, Sanyal AJ, Siddiqui M, Matherly S, et al. Validation of EncephalApp, smartphone-based Stroop Test, for the diagnosis of covert hepatic encephalopathy. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2015;13(10):1828–1835.e1; doi: 10.1016/j.cgh.2014.05.011.
20.
Lee J, Puig A, Kim Y-B, Shin H, Lee JH, Lee SM. Academic burnout profiles in Korean adolescents. Stress Health. 2010;26(5):404–416; doi: 10.1002/smi.1312.
21.
Prinsloo GE, Derman WE, Lambert MI, Rauch HGL. The effect of a single session of short duration biofeedback- induced deep breathing on measures of heart rate variability during laboratory-induced cognitive stress: a pilot study. Appl Psychophysiol Biofeedback. 2013;38(2):81–90; doi: 10.1007/s10484-013-9210-0.
22.
Dunlap WP, Cortina JM, Vaslow JB, Burke MJ. Metaanalysis of experiments with matched groups or repeated measures designs. Psychol Methods. 1996;1(2):170–177; doi: 10.1037/1082-989X.1.2.170.
23.
Cohen J. Statistical power analysis for the behavioral sciences. New York: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates; 1988.
24.
Choi A, Joo S-B, Oh E, Mun JH. Kinematic evaluation of movement smoothness in golf: relationship between the normalized jerk cost of body joints and the clubhead. Biomed Eng Online. 2014;13(1):20; doi: 10.1186/1475-925X-13-20.
25.
Camurri A, Canepa C, Ferrari N, Mancini M, Niewiadomski R, Piana S, et al. A system to support the learning of movement qualities in dance: a case study on dynamic symmetry. Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing: Adjunct. 2016;973–976; doi: 10.1145/2968219.2968261.
26.
Baron EI, Koop MM, Streicher MC, Rosenfeldt AB, Alberts JL. Altered kinematics of arm swing in Parkinson’s disease patients indicates declines in gait under dual-task conditions. Parkinsonism Relat Disord. 2018; 48:61–67; doi: 10.1016/j.parkreldis.2017.12.017.
27.
Tack GR, Choi JS, Yi JH, Kim CH. Relationship between jerk cost function and energy consumption during walking. In: Magjarevic R, Nagel JH (eds.), World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering 2006. IFMBE Proceedings, vol. 14. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007; 2917–2918.
28.
Hillier A, Murphy D, Ferrara C. A pilot study: shortterm reduction in salivary cortisol following low level physical exercise and relaxation among adolescents and young adults on the autism spectrum. Stress Health. 2011;27(5):395–402; doi: 10.1002/smi.1391.
29.
Conley KM, Lehman BJ. Test anxiety and cardiovascular responses to daily academic stressors. Stress Health. 2012;28(1):41–50; doi: 10.1002/smi.1399.
30.
Kim W-J, Kwon M-H, Kwon M-H, Kim J-G. Effects of aroma therapy on EEG and academic stress [in Korean]. Sci Emot Sensib. 2015;18(1):95–102; doi: 10.14695/KJSOS.2015.18.1.95.
31.
Benvenutti MJ, da Sliva Alves E, Michael S, Ding D, Stamatakis E, Edwards KM. A single session of hatha yoga improves stress reactivity and recovery after an acute psychological stress task – a counterbalanced, randomized-crossover trial in healthy individuals. Complement Ther Med. 2017;35:120–126; doi: 10.1016/j.6ctim.2017.10.009.
32.
Philippot P, Chapelle G, Blairy S. Respiratory feedback in the generation of emotion. Cogn Emot. 2002;16(5):605–627; doi: 10.1080/02699930143000392.
33.
Hjortskov N, Rissén D, Blangsted AK, Fallentin N, Lundberg U, Søgaard K. The effect of mental stress on heart rate variability and blood pressure during computer work. Eur J Appl Physiol. 2004;92(1–2):84–89; doi: 10.1007/s00421-004-1055-z.
34.
Galvin JA, Benson H, Deckro GR, Fricchione GL, Dusek JA. The relaxation response: reducing stress and improving cognition in healthy aging adults. Complement Ther Clin Pract. 2006;12(3):186–191; doi: 10.1016/j.ctcp.2006.02.004.
35.
Powers SI, Pietromonaco PR, Gunlicks M, Sayer A. Dating couples’ attachment styles and patterns of cortisol reactivity and recovery in response to a relationship conflict. J Pers Soc Psychol. 2006;90(4):613–628; doi: 10.1037/0022-3514.90.4.613.
36.
Williams RA, Hagerty BM, Brooks G. Trier Social Stress Test: a method for use in nursing research. Nurs Res. 2004;53(4):277–280; doi: 10.1097/00006199-200407000-00011.
37.
Brouwer A-M, Hogervorst MA. A new paradigm to induce mental stress: the Sing-a-Song Stress Test (SSST). Front Neurosci. 2014;8:224; doi: 10.3389/fnins.2014.00224.
38.
Azrin NH, Nunn RG. Habit-reversal: a method of eliminating nervous habits and tics. Behav Res Ther. 1973;11(4):619–628; doi: 10.1016/0005-7967(73)90119-8.
Share
RELATED ARTICLE
| eISSN: | 1899-1955 |
We process personal data collected when visiting the website. The function of obtaining information about users and their behavior is carried out by voluntarily entered information in forms and saving cookies in end devices. Data, including cookies, are used to provide services, improve the user experience and to analyze the traffic in accordance with the Privacy policy. Data are also collected and processed by Google Analytics tool (more).
You can change cookies settings in your browser. Restricted use of cookies in the browser configuration may affect some functionalities of the website.
You can change cookies settings in your browser. Restricted use of cookies in the browser configuration may affect some functionalities of the website.
