The pathways linking giving and receiving emotional and instrumental social support, and cardiovascular reactivity (CVR) are not yet fully understood. Eight-two healthy young adults completed psychometric measures of giving and receiving emotional and instrumental social support and participated in a standardised laboratory stress task. Cardiovascular and hemodynamic parameters were monitored throughout. Both giving and receiving emotional support were positively associated with systolic blood pressure (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP), such that those reporting giving and receiving more emotional support had higher reactivity. Only receiving instrumental was associated with DBP, with those receiving more instrumental support having higher reactivity. Moreover, while the significant association between giving social support and CVR withstood adjustment for several confounding factors (e.g., BMI, sex) it was abolished when receiving support was controlled for. These findings are novel and extend the literature on social support and CVR. Taken together, these findings suggest that receipt of support, rather than giving, may be more influential in this context.

连接给予和接受的途径情感和工具性社会支持以及心血管反应性 (CVR) 尚未完全了解。八、两名健康的年轻人完成了给予和接受情感和工具性社会支持的心理测量测量，并参加了标准化的实验室压力任务。在整个过程中监测心血管和血液动力学参数。给予和接受情感支持都与收缩压 (SBP) 和舒张压 (DBP) 呈正相关，因此报告给予和接受更多情感支持的人具有更高的反应性。只有接受工具性支持与 DBP 相关，接受更多工具性支持的人反应性更高。而且，虽然给予社会支持和 CVR 之间的显着关联经受住了几个混杂因素（例如 BMI、性别）的调整，但在接受支持被控制后就被取消了。这些发现是新颖的，扩展了关于社会支持和 CVR 的文献。综上所述，这些发现表明，在这种情况下，接受支持而不是给予可能更有影响力。