The interplay of self-critical rumination and resting heart rate variability on subjective well-being and somatic symptom distress: A prospective study

Abstract

Our findings potentially indicate that self-critical rumination could have a long-term negative impact on psychological functioning, even in a non-clinical sample, and highlight that a lower level of parasympathetic activation, assessed with RMSSD, might be an important factor in the relationship of self-critical rumination and somatic symptom distress.