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Perseverative cognition
Repetitive thinking about stressors, such as worry about the future and rumination about the past. The perseverative cognition hypothesis proposes that it prolongs stress-related physiological activation beyond the stressor itself; worry and rumination are associated with enhanced cardiovascular, endocrine and immune activity. Its authors described the support as preliminary. What it means physiologically when 'the body changes state': allostasis as predictive regulation, allostatic load as its cumulative cost, stress recovery and perseverative cognition, with the evidence, the critiques and the limits for catharsis. The works the definition rests on, with the level of evidence each was appraised at. (2006). The perseverative cognition hypothesis: A review of worry, prolonged stress-related physiological activation, and health. doi:10.1016/j.jpsychores.2005.06.074 Supports the claim that worry, rumination and anticipatory stress are associated with enhanced cardiovascular, endocrine, immune and neurovisceral activity, which the authors describe as preliminary support for the perseverative cognition hypothesis.Where the site uses it
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