What helps you feel better in a stressful situation? For many people, a heartfelt hug provides stress relief. A new study provides some insights into why.
A new study investigated how hugging affects the levels of stress hormones.Life can be quite stressful, and people have many different ways of coping with stress. One way to make somebody feel better about a stressful situation that is common across the world is to give the
person a heartfelt hug. While many people would agree that hugs are helpful when they are feeling stressed, it is not well known on a biopsychological level how exactly hugs affect the stress response. Therefore, a study published in thefocused on investigating the biopsychological underpinning of how hugs regulate stress to ask volunteers about their hugging habits.
Overall, 112 students volunteered to participate in the study. To assess their hugging habits, the scientists sent them five text messages asking about whether they hugged or not in a three-hour slot on three different days. So, each volunteer gave information about their hugging habits on a maximum of 15 occasions.
In the study, the scientists found an interesting association between hugging frequency and the CAR. On average, the volunteers reported that they had hugged on about 15 percent of the three-hour intervals in which data were collected in the study. Volunteers who reported more hugs in the EMA showed a statistically significant lower CAR the next morning compared to people reporting fewer hugs.
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