An Investigation of Sex Differences in the Effects of Sedentary Competition on Stress-induced Analgesia

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2001
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This investigation of stress-induced analgesia used two sedentary competitive tasks to examine possible sex differences in the pain inhibition caused by stress. Subjects came in pairs to the lab on two occasions, once to compete in either word games or in an auto racing simulation video game and once for baseline measures. Pain was measured on both days using the cold pressor test to assess intensity and unpleasantness of the cold stimulus. Subjects also gave subjective mood ratings on both competition and baseline days. We found no differences in pain ratings between competition and baseline measures or between men and women. We did find differences in pain ratings between athletes and non-athletes, which leads to questions concerning disparity in competitive stress concepts between the two groups.
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