Sex differences in cardiovascular reactivity: Effects of the gender relevance of the stressor.

Lash, Steven J.; Gillespie, Betty L.; Eisler, Richard M.; Southard, Douglas

doi:10.1037//0278-6133.10.6.392

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Psychological, situational, and gender predictors of cardiovascular reactivity to stress: A multivariate approach

Burns

Katkin

1993

J Behav Med

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This study examined whether relationships between anger expression, hostility, social evaluative anxiety, and a presumed mechanism for coronary heart disease development, cardiovascular reactivity (CVR) to stress, are moderated by stress situation and gender and whether such relationships are attenuated by inadequate assessments. Subjects (47 men, 47 women) were assigned randomly to either a Harassment or a Social Evaluation condition, under which they performed a reaction time task. SBP, DBP, and HR measures were recorded during baseline and task. Multiple regression analyses indicated that expressed anger was related to CVR only among men in the Harassment condition; that hostile men who express anger showed the most CVR across situations, and that the traits assessed here did not predict CVR among women. Results suggest that assessments of coronary-risk and interventions to reduce risk may need to take into account attitudes, styles of emotional expression, environmental factors, and gender.

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Psychological, situational, and gender predictors of cardiovascular reactivity to stress: A multivariate approach

Burns

Katkin

1993

J Behav Med

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When to measure resting values in studies of children's cardiovascular reactivity

1994

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Investigations suggesting that the order of obtaining resting and cardiovascular reactivity measurements moderates values have provided inconsistent results and have not analyzed data from children; the generalizability of results is uncertain. In this investigation, all children enrolled in the eighth-grade classrooms of the public schools of an entire county (n = 451) participated in standardized reactivity assessments. The order of resting and reactivity measurements was randomized by examination day (a total of 19 days). Analyses indicated that all comparisons of order effects on mean resting blood pressure and heart rate, as well as reactivity (both change from resting and absolute values and both mean and maximal values), were nonsignificant. Results indicate that measurement order is not always a necessary consideration in studies of reactivity; the conditions under which measurement order is a consideration requires clarification.

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Gender and cardiovascular responses: What is the role of hostility?

Lawler

Harralson

Armstead

et al. 1993

Journal of Psychosomatic Research

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Sex differences in cardiovascular reactivity: Effects of the gender relevance of the stressor.

Cited by 30 publications

References 22 publications

Psychological, situational, and gender predictors of cardiovascular reactivity to stress: A multivariate approach

Psychological, situational, and gender predictors of cardiovascular reactivity to stress: A multivariate approach

When to measure resting values in studies of children's cardiovascular reactivity

Gender and cardiovascular responses: What is the role of hostility?

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