Defensiveness, trait anxiety, and Epstein-Barr viral capsid antigen antibody titers in healthy college students.
- 1 January 1993
- journal article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Health Psychology
- Vol. 12 (2) , 132-139
- https://doi.org/10.1037//0278-6133.12.2.132
Abstract
The relationship of individual differences in repressive coping styles with differences in antibody titer to Epstein-Barr viral capsid antigen (EBV-VCA) were investigated in a normal, healthy college population made up of people previously exposed to EBV. Each of 54 1st-year undergraduates completed a battery of physical-status questions and items pertaining to potential behavioral immunomodulatory confounds, along with the Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale (T-MAS) and the Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale (MC-SDS). Ss reporting high and middle levels of anxiety had higher antibody titers to EBV, suggesting poorer immune control over the latent virus, as compared with the low-anxious group. Similarly, high-defensive Ss had higher antibody titers than their low-defensive counterparts, and neither group differed from the middle group.Keywords
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