Allen P I, Batty K A, Dodd C A, Herbert J, Hugh C J, Moore G F, Seymour M J, Shiers H M, Stacey P M, Young S K
J Endocrinol. 1985 Nov;107(2):163-70. doi: 10.1677/joe.0.1070163.
A study was made in 2 consecutive years of the emotional states and morning and afternoon serum levels of prolactin, cortisol and testosterone of male medical students during a 4- to 5-week period preceding a major university examination. 'Distress', 'anxiety' and, to a lesser degree, 'depression' increased during the 2 weeks immediately preceding the examination and were positively correlated with personality anxiety or neuroticism traits. Group means for hormones showed no consistent change over the same period. Neither was there evidence for a correlation between endocrine and emotional changes within individual students during the pre-examination period. A restricted study showed that there were significant increments in cortisol in samples taken during the examination itself. Changes in emotional state before an examination occurred in the absence of equally dramatic changes in levels of the three hormones studied, though this relationship may have altered during the examination itself. This suggests that the factors controlling the two categories of response may relate differently, in some way, to the imminence of this stressful event.
在连续两年的时间里，对男性医学生在大学一次重要考试前4至5周内的情绪状态以及上午和下午血清中的催乳素、皮质醇和睾酮水平进行了研究。在考试前两周内，“痛苦”“焦虑”以及程度较轻的“抑郁”情绪有所增加，且与人格焦虑或神经质特质呈正相关。在此期间，激素的组均值没有呈现出一致的变化。也没有证据表明在考试前阶段，个体学生体内的内分泌变化与情绪变化之间存在关联。一项受限研究表明，在考试期间采集的样本中，皮质醇有显著升高。尽管在考试过程中这种关系可能发生了变化，但在三种研究激素水平没有同样显著变化的情况下，考试前情绪状态仍发生了改变。这表明，控制这两类反应的因素在某种程度上可能与这一压力事件的紧迫性有着不同的关联。
