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Cardiovascular, Neurophysiological, and Biochemical Stress Indicators: A Short Review for Information Systems Researchers

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Information Systems and Neuroscience

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation ((LNISO,volume 29))

Abstract

We conducted a systematic review of the scientific literature on indicators for stress measurement. The full texts of 128 articles (published in the period 1970–2017) were analyzed and we identified a total of 21 different stress indicators, including cardiovascular, neurophysiological, and biochemical measures. Moreover, we analyzed the frequency of use of the indicators. Glucocorticoids including the hormone cortisol (52 out of 128 articles), heart rate (HR) and heart rate variability (HRV) (50/128), as well as diastolic blood pressure (DBP) and systolic blood pressure (SBP) (40/128), are the dominant stress indicators. Also, we found that half of the articles (64/128) report about at least two different stress indicators, thus a combination of biological measurement approaches is relatively common in stress research. This review holds value for researchers in the Information Systems (IS) discipline and related interdisciplinary research fields such as technostress.

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  1. 1.

    Physiological, neurological, neurophysiological, electrophysiological, neural, nerve-related, biological (indicator, measure, response, parameter, feedback, reaction), measurement, measuring, reading, record, logging, notes, testing, scan, report, monitoring, evaluation (device, tool, equipment, appliance, instrument, application, gadget, hardware, software, machine, utensil, implement, technology); pupil dilation; dilation, pupillary, pupil, constriction (response); miosis; mydriasis; eye tracking; eye tracker; eye movement; electrodermal activity; EDA; skin conductance (level, response); galvanic skin, electrodermal, sympathetic skin (response); GSR; EDR; SCR; psychogalvanic reflex; PGR; SCL; E-meter; biofeedback; heart, heart rate, HR, pulse rate (variability); HRV; heart activity; blood pressure; BP; electrocardiograph; ECG; EKG; electrocardiogram; brain; electroencephalography; EEG; magnetic resonance imaging; MRI; computed tomography scan; CT scan; CT; hormones; strain; load; workload; pressure; liability; level measurement; distress; nervous.

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    The sources of the articles and databases are (number of downloads in brackets): PsycINFO (60), MEDLINE (47), Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection (30), SocINDEX (9), Business Source Premier (8), ERIC (7), PSYNDEX (2), GreenFILE (1).

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    Standard questionnaire about participants subjective stress level (e.g., job tension, physical stress, psychological stress, strain) [44, 45, 59, 60, 63, 66, 74, 106, 118,119,120,121,122,123,124,125,126] or stress states and motivation (subjective work load, time urgency, state anxiety, involvement) [41, 44, 59, 89, 118, 120, 127], Trier Social Stress Test (TSST) [14, 36, 38, 39, 82, 92, 95, 103], Stress-Coping Scale (SCS), State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) or Iceberg Profile (IP) [38, 50, 64, 88, 117], Profile of Mood State (POMS) [64, 67, 88, 91, 128], Cleminshaw-Guidubaldi Parent Satisfaction Scale, Coping Resources Inventory of Stress (CRIS), Family Inventory of Life Events and Changes (FILE), Global Inventory of Stress (GIS), Parenting Stress Index (PSI), Parental Stress Scale or Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) [12, 40, 128,129,130], Health Opinion Survey, Population Health Perspective (PHP), General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) or Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ) [12, 30, 131, 132], Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) [12, 30], Self-Assessment Manikin (SAM) [31, 48], Cox’s Stress/Arousal Adjective Check List (SACL) [133, 134], NASA-Task Load Index (TLX) [135, 136], Social Stress Recall Task [130], Distress Tolerance Scale (DTS) [128], Montreal Imaging Stress Task (MIST) [91], Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS) [3], State-Trait Anger Expression Inventory (STAXI) [88], Sports Anxiety Scale (SAS) [18], Pressure-Activation-Stress (PAS) scale [7], Parental Responsibility Scale (PRS) [12], Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI) [40], Perceived Stress Questionnaire (PSQ) [137], Affect-arousal Grid [42], Biographic Narrative Interpretative Method (BNIM) [138], Effort-Reward Imbalance Occupational Stress Scales [139], Anchoring-and-adjustment Questionnaire [75], Job Content Questionnaire (JCQ) [77], SWS-Survey [135], Survey of Health Care Professionals [140], Adjective Checklist on Emotions (EWL) [68], List of Cues for Determining Level of Stress [141], Pearlin and Schooler’s List of Emotions [142], Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale and Teaching Anxiety Scale [87], Role Strain Scale [143], and California Test of Personality (CTP) [132].

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Vogel, J., Auinger, A., Riedl, R. (2019). Cardiovascular, Neurophysiological, and Biochemical Stress Indicators: A Short Review for Information Systems Researchers. In: Davis, F., Riedl, R., vom Brocke, J., Léger, PM., Randolph, A. (eds) Information Systems and Neuroscience. Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation, vol 29. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01087-4_31

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