A brief positive psychological intervention prior to a potentially stressful task facilitates more challenge-like cardiovascular reactivity in high trait anxious individuals.

Importantly, while for the control group the interaction between stress reactivity and trait anxiety was not significant ( b = 0.007, p = .231), it was marginally significant for the best possible selves group ( b = −0.009, p = .057), indicating a nonsignificant but potentially meaningful descriptive trend that with increasing anxiety levels peripheral resistance reactivity tended to be lower relative to the control group.

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