Performing with all my heart: Heart rate variability and its relationship with personality-trait-like-individual-differences (PTLIDs) in pressurized performance situations
Authors: Mosley, E. and Laborde, S.
Pages: 45-60
Abstract:Heart rate variability (HRV) is acknowledged to play a role on performance given its links with cognition and stress. These links originate in the connection of HRV with the prefrontal cortex through neural pathways including the vagus nerve. Importantly, some foundational stable characteristics of individuals, which are referred to in this chapter as personality-trait-like individual differences (PTLIDs) were found to influence HRV in the context of performing under pressure. More specifically, both trait emotional intelligence, which is the way individuals deal with their own emotions and with others' emotions, and decision reinvestment, which represents the tendency to reflect on one's decisions, have been found to influence HRV in pressurized situations. These links are still tentative, although a wide range of PTLIDs have been linked to other cardiac parameters which are related to heart rate variability. The aim of this chapter is to show how PTLIDs are connected to HRV and to related cardiac parameters in pressurized situations, allowing for an understanding of the determinants of human behaviour under pressure beyond the situation the individual is facing.
Source: Scopus