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Psychosomatic Medicine 29:380-390 (1967)
© 1967 American Psychosomatic Society

Sex Differences in Stress Responses to Total and Partial Sensory Deprivation

D. VINCENT BIASE PH.D.1 and MARVIN ZUCKERMAN PH.D.1

1 Staten Island Mental Health Society, Bronx, N. Y., and the Research Laboratories, Division of Endocrinology, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pa.

The responses of 36 males and 36 females to 3 hr. of total sensory deprivation (SD) or partial SD (light or sound deprivation) were compared. Females scored significantly higher on a measure of verbalized stress derived from ratings of the post-SD interview. Males showed a near-significant (p<.06) tendency for a greater increase in GSR conductance from the baseline to the end of the experiment. Both males and females had more spontaneous fluctuations of GSR in the total SD than in the partial SD conditions. None of the verbal stress measures yielded differences between SD conditions. Personality measures of passive-feminine traits and values and field-dependency in the males did not correlate with either verbal or physiological indices of stress response to SD. The results give limited support to the theory combining set and enforced passivity as explanations of sex differences in response to SD.

Submitted on June 23, 1966






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