Type D personality and cardiovascular reactivity in active performance situations: Gender and task-specific influences

Gramer, Margit; Haar, Julia; Mitteregger, Marleen

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2018.05.027

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“…Additionally, while these unadjusted analyses revealed no significant difference between Type D and non-Type D individuals in response to the speech task, Type D individuals were found to exhibit significantly lower cardiovascular responses to the maths task. Type D individuals have previously been shown to exhibit divergent cardiovascular reactions to different stressors (Bibbey et al, 2015;Gramer et al, 2018;O'Riordan et al, 2019), with Type D individuals primarily exhibiting blunted reactions to stressors of lower social salience (Bibbey et al, 2015;O'Riordan et al, 2019 Kelly-Hughes et O'Leary et al, 2013). Blunted cardiovascular reactivity to stress is suggested to reflect a motivational dysregulation, which engenders withdrawal and disengagement from the acute stressor (Carroll et al, 2017;Phillips, Ginty, & Hughes, 2013).…”

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Type D personality and cardiovascular reactivity to acute stress: The mediating effects of social support and negative social relationships

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Type D personality has been consistently associated with adverse cardiovascular health with atypical cardiovascular reactions to psychological stress one potential underlying mechanism. As Type D individuals have been noted to report lower social support and greater perceptions of negativity in social interactions, this study examined if the association between Type D personality and cardiovascular reactivity was mediated by these social relationships. A sample of 195 undergraduate students (138 female) participated in this observational study, where they completed measures assessing Type D personality (DS14), social support, and perceptions of negative social relationships (National Institute of Health social relationship scales), before undergoing a traditional cardiovascular reactivity protocol. Systolic and diastolic blood pressure (SBP; DBP), heart rate (HR), cardiac output (CO), and total peripheral resistance (TPR) were monitored throughout. ANCOVAs and regressions indicated that Type D personality was associated with lower cardiovascular reactivity to a mental arithmetic stressor. Furthermore, mediation analyses (process macro) indicated that the relationship between Type D personality and cardiovascular reactivity was mediated via increased perceptions of negative social relationships, as well as lower levels of social support. Apart from a significant association between Type D personality and increased HR reactivity, all results failed to withstand adjustment for the individual effects of negative affect (NA) and social inhibition (SI) in controlled analyses. Overall, these findings suggest that the predictive utility of Type D personality on cardiovascular reactivity above and beyond the individual effects of NA and SI is limited, and may vary depending on the cardiovascular parameter of focus.

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Type D personality and cardiovascular reactivity to acute stress: The mediating effects of social support and negative social relationships

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“…Future directions for research may wish to consider the underlying haemodynamic profile that can elucidate physiological differences that may not be apparent when considering SBP, DBP, or HR. Future studies should also ensure that tasks are sufficiently interesting for all participants to ensure engagement with the experimental process by perhaps using behaviourally stimulating tasks to correspond with an individual's level of dominance, such as social and asocial tasks with an active evaluation component (see Gramer, Haar, & Mitteregger, ). Additionally, although the present study employed a between‐subjects design, work in this area would benefit from the use of a counterbalanced repeated measures design with a longitudinal follow‐up to examine if these effects persist over time and across stressor for individuals.…”

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Trait dominance and cardiovascular functioning during social stress

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2019

Stress and Health

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Cardiovascular reactivity (CVR) to stress has been found to be an important indicator of future ill health, and individual differences in personality have been posited to explain disparities in outcomes. Dominance is associated with forceful persons who desire hierarchy in social interactions. This study investigated dominance and CVR during social or asocial stressors. Sixty-one women, categorized as low, moderate, or high in dominance using the Jackson Personality Research Form, completed a social or asocial stressor while undergoing cardiovascular measurement during baseline, stressor, and recovery phases. A 3 × 2 × 3 analysis of covariance revealed a significant Phase × Stressor × Dominance interaction for systolic blood pressure (SBP).Women with lower and moderate dominance-but not women with higher dominance-exhibited greater SBP responses to stress in the social condition compared with the asocial condition. No significant difference was found for women with higher dominance, indicative of blunted SBP during the social stressor. During recovery, women with lower dominance had marginally elevated SBP in the social condition compared with the asocial condition. The current study extends prior knowledge of the association between dominance and CVR, such that greater dominance was associated with blunted SBP and lower dominance was associated with attenuated recovery to social stress. K E Y W O R D Scardiovascular functioning, social stress, trait dominance

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“…Regarding the personality structure, individuals show different behavior and emotions while dealing with stress (23). Therefore, type D personality is one of the mediating factors in the relationship between health and stress (18).…”

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“…Previous studies have stated that improving the patients' quality of life and treating the pathological personality traits reduces the cardiac disease symptoms, and decreases the mortality and disabilities among patients (18,22,23). In addition, there is no comprehensive psychological intervention for cardiovascular patients.…”

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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Integrated Intervention Program in Improving on Quality of Life and Personality Type in Heart Disease Patients

Shal

2019

Jundishapur J Chronic Dis Care

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Background: Non-communicable diseases such as cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the main cause of death worldwide. Besides, major risk factors such as age, gender, race, and modifiable or psychological risk factors have a significant role in the incidence of CVDs. This study established an integrated intervention program based on psychological risk factors for Iranian cardiovascular patients, and tried to validate its effectiveness in improving quality of life and personality type. Objectives: Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the efficiency of integrated intervention program in type D personality and quality of life among the cardiovascular patients. Methods: In an experimental randomized controlled trial, a total of 60 patients (29-42 years old, 67% males and 33% females, and all married) were assigned randomly either to the experimental (30 patients) or the control group (30 patients). The patients in the experimental group participated in the intervention program for one month. The content of the integrated intervention program included understanding the role of psychological factors on cardiovascular diseases, understanding personality types, understanding hardiness and resiliency, healthy heart lifestyle, thoughts and behavior, understanding coping styles and emotion regulation, understanding spirituality and personal growth, understanding social support, and learning relaxation techniques. Quality of life and personality type in two groups were measured through WHOQOL and type D personality questionnaire before and after the intervention. All analyses were conducted using SPSS version 20. Results: The patients in the experimental group had significantly more quality of life (P < 0.001) and less type D personality traits (P < 0.001), which support the effectiveness of the cardiac integrated intervention program. Conclusions: The results from meta-analyses indicated the role of psychological risk factors in the development of CVDs. The findings of the current study suggested that cardiac integrated intervention program increases the quality of life and reduces the type D personality traits in cardiovascular patients. Furthermore, it is recommended that cardiac care professionals use this effective treatment to improve the recovery of cardiac patients.

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Type D personality and cardiovascular reactivity in active performance situations: Gender and task-specific influences

Cited by 7 publications

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Type D personality and cardiovascular reactivity to acute stress: The mediating effects of social support and negative social relationships

Type D personality and cardiovascular reactivity to acute stress: The mediating effects of social support and negative social relationships

Trait dominance and cardiovascular functioning during social stress

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Integrated Intervention Program in Improving on Quality of Life and Personality Type in Heart Disease Patients

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