Influence of anger on pulse parameters in healthy college students: a pilot study

摘要

Purpose: To explore the influence of anger on pulse parametersin healthy participants.Methods: Thirty healthy college students from Beijing Universityof Traditional Chinese Medicine were selected andwere exposed to an anger-inducing video clip. Then theirscores of emotions were evaluated by the participants’ selfreportat three time points: 10 min before watching the video(T1), the moment when the video ends (T2) and 15 min afterthe video has ended (T3). Meanwhile, pulse parameters wererecorded by electropulsograph at the above three time points.Results: After watching the video, anger was successfullyelicited in 29 participants (97%), with a score increasedfrom 1.00 ± 0.00 to 5.56±0.78 (P0.05).Conclusion: This provides an evidence for the understandingof the relationship between anger emotion and pulsecondition in Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM).