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- The Trier Social Stress Test (TSST) is a well-established tool for inducing stress, and a virtual reality version (VR-TSST) has been created to address some limitations of the original method.
- Participants in this study were subjected to either the traditional in vivo TSST, the VR-TSST, or a control condition to compare anxiety levels and physiological responses, measured by heart rate and variability.
- The results showed that while anxiety levels were similar between the VR-TSST and in vivo TSST, the VR-TSST elicited a less intense cardiovascular response, particularly during the math portion of the test.
Article Abstract
The Trier Social Stress Test (TSST) is a reliable social-evaluative stressor. To overcome limitations of the in vivo TSST, a standardized virtual reality TSST (VR-TSST) was developed. The present study compares the emotional (anxiety) and physiological (heart period and variability) response to a VR-TSST with an in vivo TSST and a control condition. Participants took part in either an in vivo TSST (N = 106, 64% female), VR-TSST (N = 52, 100% female), or a control TSST (N = 20, 40% female). Mixed linear modeling examined response profile differences related to TSST type. While there was an equivalent anxiety response to the in vivo TSST as the VR-TSST, we found a smaller heart period and heart rate variability response in VR-TSST compared to the in vivo TSST, especially in response to the math part of the test. The present findings demonstrate that social evaluative stress can be successfully induced in a VR setting, producing similar emotional and slightly attenuated cardiovascular responses.
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