Hostility and cardiovascular reactivity to stress in women and men.

Weidner, Gerdi; Friend, Ronald; Ficarrotto, Thomas J.; Mendell, Nancy R.

doi:10.1097/00006842-198901000-00004

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“…Table 1 shows that the MAT induced elevations in cardiovascu lar activity and negative affect. Recent evidence suggests that the CMHS is best conceptualized as a dichotomous vari able rather than a continuous linear variable [15]. High (n = 31) vs. low (n = 38) CMHS groups were generated by the rank procedure of SAS [16].…”

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Defensiveness, Cynical Hostility and Cardiovascular Reactivity: A Moderator Analysis

Jorgensen¹,

Abdul-Karim²,

Kahan³

et al. 1995

Psychother Psychosom

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We examined the interaction of a defensive need for approval with cynical hostility, in the prediction of pressor and heart rate reactivity to a stressful mental arithmetic task. For both systolic blood pressure and heart rate, analyses revealed the predicted interaction between defensiveness and cynical hostility; subsequent analyses showed significant correlations of defensiveness with systolic blood pressure and heart rate reactivity only among the high cynical hostility subjects. These analyses support the theory and empirical findings linking the conflicting traits of cynical hostility and defensiveness to cardiovascular reactivity and, quite possibly, to stress-related coronary disease.

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Defensiveness, Cynical Hostility and Cardiovascular Reactivity: A Moderator Analysis

Jorgensen¹,

Abdul-Karim²,

Kahan³

et al. 1995

Psychother Psychosom

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“…Anger, hostility, and cardiovascular reactivity-negative findings A number of other studies have also shown a positive relationship between hostility scores and cardiovascular reactivity in laboratory settings with mental stress manipulations (Weidner, Friend, Ficarrotto, & Mendell, 1989;Hardy & Smith, 1988;Smith & Allred, 1989, Houston, Smith, & Cates, 1989. There are also studies, however, reporting no relationship between hostility and cardiovascular reactivity, with varying explanations (Smith & Houston, 1987;Sallis, Johnson, Trevorrow, Kaplan, & Hovell, 1987;Anderson, Williams, Lane, & Monou, 1984).…”

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Hostility and anger expression behavioral and cardiovascular responses to mental stress among cardiovascular disease patients

Tucker¹

2002

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“…According to Saab et al (1989), women react to stress with a lower increase in blood pressure and noradrenaline release than men do. Furthermore, according to Weidner et al (1989), men react to stress with greater blood pressure increase, whereas women, with a greater increase in heart rate. However, in women having a masculine type of career, the reaction to stress, as reflected by the change in catecholamines level, is similar to the men's reaction (Frankenhaeuser, 1983).…”

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Comparison of Cardiac Response to Managerial Workload between Men and Women.

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Abstract. The aim of the study, was to estimate the reaction of selected circulatory system parameters to psychic workload in industrial managers and to answer the question whether may affect this reaction. The study was performed in 23 men (mean 46 ± 6 years of age) and 16 women (mean 42 ± 6 years of age), employed as executives in a large industrial plant. The subjects had their 24-h ECG recorded using Medilog 3000 (Oxford). The ECG recordings were classified as pathological according to the standards of Bjerregaard. Heart rate was calculated for working time, leisure time and sleep. The subjects were also asked to estimate the perceived psychic load according to a method involving subjective estimation of work-demands and of an ability to cope with them. Generally, the subjects reported high work demands, but coping abilities were higher than work demands. Both in the men and women, a relationship was found between the intensity of subjective estimation of psychic load and heart rate response. However, the reaction of the circulatory system to the psychic workload in men was long-lasting (its effects continued until late at night); in women it was more direct (only during work). The frequency of abnormalities in 24-h Holter ECG recordings for both test groups was not very high, a little higher in men (30%) than in women (25%), and was comparable with the frequencies in selected general population groups. Our results may indicate that mental workload of the managerial staff, does not cause increased frequency of ECG abnormalities. However, in view of the fact that cardiovascular diseases are more frequent among men than among women, different reaction of the circulatory system to workload should also be accounted for in an attempt to explain the sources of that phenomenon.

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Hostility and cardiovascular reactivity to stress in women and men.

Cited by 124 publications

References 14 publications

Defensiveness, Cynical Hostility and Cardiovascular Reactivity: A Moderator Analysis

Defensiveness, Cynical Hostility and Cardiovascular Reactivity: A Moderator Analysis

Hostility and anger expression behavioral and cardiovascular responses to mental stress among cardiovascular disease patients

Comparison of Cardiac Response to Managerial Workload between Men and Women.

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