150996 20251017144614.0 doi 10.6018/analesps.483411 sideral 126044 ART-2021-126044 eng Mirete, M. Subclinical social anxiety in healthy young adults: Cortisol and subjective anxiety in response to acute stress 2021 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted There is no consensus about the pattern of cortisol release and its relationship with subjective anxiety in situations of stress in the population with social anxiety. Our aim was to determine the cortisol and subjective anxiety response in individuals with social anxiety subjected to an acute psychosocial stressor. 26 college students (58.6% males), mean age = 21.62 +/- 0.43, were exposed to the stress or control adaptation of the Maastricht Acute Stress Test. Salivary cortisol and subjective anxiety were measured before, during, and after stress. Participants showed an increase in cortisol levels during the stress and post-stress phases, with a significantly higher response in those with high social anxiety. Participants with high social anxiety also showed, as a tendency, higher levels of subjective anxiety, especially in the post-stress phase. Only in the stress phase, cortisol and subjective anxiety correlated significantly in socially anxious participants. The findings support a cortisol hyperresponsiveness in a young, nonclinical population with high social anxiety. Future research should focus on the factors involved and the effects of this physiological response on health. Furthermore, the need to control social anxiety in experiments using a laboratory psychosocial stressor is highlighted. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MEC/PSI2016-78763 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by-sa https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.es 2.325 2021 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY 75 / 146 = 0.514 2021 Q3 T2 PSYCHOLOGY 50 / 80 = 0.625 2021 Q3 T2 0.551 2021 Psychology (miscellaneous) 2021 Q2 3.6 2021 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Molina, S. Villada, C. Hidalgo, V. Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0003-3920-1099 Salvadoir, A. 4009 725 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Psicología y Sociología Área Psicobiología 37, 3 (2021), 432-439 An. psicol. Anales de psicología 0212-9728 357017 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/150996/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 3164729 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/150996/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:150996 articulos driver 2025-10-17-14:18:26 ARTICLE