Thomassin Kristel, Raftery-Helmer Jacquelyn, Hersh Jacqueline
Department of psychology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada.
Department of psychology, Worcester State University, Worcester, MA, United States.
Front Psychol. 2018 Dec 21;9:2610. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02610. eCollection 2018.
The Trier Social Stress Test (TSST) has become one of the most widely-used protocols for inducing moderate psychosocial stress in laboratory settings. Observational coding has been used to measure a range of behavioral responses to the TSST including performance, reactions to the task, and markers of stress induced by the task, with clear advantages given increased objectivity of observational measurement over self-report measures. The current review systematically examined all TSST and TSST-related studies with children and adolescents published since the original work of Kirschbaum et al. (1993) to identify behavioral observation coding approaches for the TSST. The search resulted in 29 published articles, dissertations, and master's theses with a wide range of coding approaches used. The take-home finding from the current review is that there is no standard way to code the Trier Social Stress Test for Children (TSST-C), which appears to stem from the uniqueness of investigators' research questions and sample demographics. This lack of standardization prohibits conclusive comparisons between studies and samples. We discuss relevant implications and offer suggestions for future research.
特里尔社会应激测试（TSST）已成为在实验室环境中诱发中度心理社会应激最广泛使用的方案之一。观察编码已被用于测量对TSST的一系列行为反应，包括表现、对任务的反应以及任务诱发的应激指标，与自我报告测量相比，观察测量的客观性增强，具有明显优势。本综述系统地审视了自Kirschbaum等人（1993年）的原始研究以来发表的所有关于儿童和青少年的TSST及与TSST相关的研究，以确定TSST的行为观察编码方法。检索结果为29篇已发表的文章、学位论文和硕士论文，这些研究采用了广泛的编码方法。本次综述的主要发现是，对于儿童特里尔社会应激测试（TSST-C），没有标准的编码方式，这似乎源于研究者研究问题和样本人口统计学特征的独特性。这种缺乏标准化的情况阻碍了不同研究和样本之间的确切比较。我们讨论了相关影响，并为未来研究提供了建议。
