Personality Differences Between Potential Coronary and Noncoronary Subjects*

Brožek, Josef; Keys, Ancel; Blackburn, Henry

doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.1966.tb43086.x

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“…The single exception is the low, but consistent, negative correlation between NEM and uric acid. Because high uric acid levels predict later coronary disease (e.g., Brand et al, 1985;Fessel, 1980), these data again (Brozek, Keys, & Blackburn, 1966;Costa et al, 1982), myocardial infarction (Ostfeld, Lebovits, Shekelle, & Paul, 1964), or heart-related mortality (Keehn, Goldberg, & Beebe, 1974;Shekelle et ai., 1981). Moreover, heart patients tend to have slightly lower premorbid NA scores in some of these studies, paralleling our own data (Tables 4 and 5).…”

Section: Serum Risk Factorsmentioning

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Health complaints, stress, and distress: Exploring the central role of negative affectivity.

Watson¹,

Pennebaker²

1989

Psychological Review

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Most current models in health psychology assume that stress adversely affects physical health. We re-examined this assumption by reviewing extensive data from the literature and from six samples of our own, in which we collected measures of personality, health and fitness, stress, and current emotional functioning. Results indicate that self-report health measures reflect a pervasive mood disposition of negative affectivity (NA); self-report stress scales also contain a substantial NA component. However, although NA is correlated with health compliant scales, it is not strongly or consistently related to actual, long-term health status, and thus will act as a general nuisance factor in health research. Because self-report measures of stress and health both contain a significant NA component, correlations between such measures likely overestimate the true association between stress and health. Results demonstrate the importance of including different types of health measures in health psychology research.

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Section: Serum Risk Factorsmentioning

confidence: 86%

Health complaints, stress, and distress: Exploring the central role of negative affectivity.

Watson¹,

Pennebaker²

1989

Psychological Review

2,808

143

2,086

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“…[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] Whether depression also constitutes a risk factor for incident CHD events is somewhat less clear. Although some studies [8][9][10] have found no association between depression and incidence of CHD, the results of several recent studies [11][12][13][14][15] suggest that depression may increase risk for incident CHD outcomes. However, few studies have examined the role of depression in predicting CHD in the elderly despite the steep increase in CHD incidence in old age, especially among women.…”

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Depression and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in Elderly Men and Women

Leon¹,

Krumholz²,

Seeman³

et al. 1998

Arch Intern Med

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“…The TTS Activity subscale was chosen in view of evidence of its reliability and construct validity (41). It is also consistent with the structured interview assessment method and has been linked prospectively to coronary heart disease (42). In addition, the subscale has been demonstrated to predict CV reactivity (43,44).…”

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Type A behavior, tension, and ambulatory cardiovascular reactivity in workers exposed to noise stress.

Melamed¹,

Harari²,

Green³

1993

Psychosomatic Medicine

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Recent negative findings regarding differences in blood pressure (BP) and heart rate (HR) reactivity at work between Type A and Type B workers may stem from the failure to note the stressors to which they were exposed. In this naturalistic study, an objective work stressor--varying levels of ambient noise--was individually monitored among 123 normotensive males. We examined the relationship of Type A behavior (assessed by the Thurstone Temperament Schedule) to ambulatory BP and HR reactivity under high and low noise conditions. We also tested the hypothesized mediating function of tension arousal. Results of multiple regression analyses indicated that when workers were exposed to high noise levels (> or = 80 dB(A)), Type A behavior was positively related to diastolic BP (p = 0.029) and HR reactivity (p = 0.0001), even after adjusting for clinic values, time of measurement, worker activities, and body position during measurement. When the same workers were exposed to low noise levels, the results were not significant. This suggests that noise constitutes a stressor for Type A individuals, and highlights the importance of noting the actual stressor-exposure condition. In addition, Type A individuals reported high tension, noted concurrently with the ambulatory measurements. Tension arousal was also related to BP and HR reactivity. Adding the tension variable to the above regressions weakened the relationship between Type A behavior and BP and HR reactivity. Thus, the tension experienced by Type A workers exposed to noise stress may have served as a mediator of cardiovascular reactivity.

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Personality Differences Between Potential Coronary and Noncoronary Subjects*

Cited by 82 publications

References 16 publications

Health complaints, stress, and distress: Exploring the central role of negative affectivity.

Health complaints, stress, and distress: Exploring the central role of negative affectivity.

Depression and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in Elderly Men and Women

Type A behavior, tension, and ambulatory cardiovascular reactivity in workers exposed to noise stress.

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