Anger/Hostility and Cardiovascular Disease

Williams, Janice E.

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“…In response to anger imagery, adolescents high in trait anger reported feeling angrier and also responded with greater HR, SBP, and DBP than adolescents low in trait anger. The magnitude of cardiac load is related to later hypertension (Pankova et al, 2010) and coronary heart disease (Miller, Smith, Turner, Guijarro, & Hallet, 1996; Williams, 2010), potentially putting adolescents high in trait anger at greater long-term health risk.…”

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“…Thus, the relationship between high trait anger and lack of exercise may be bidirectional and reinforcing. Given the link between anger problems and coronary heart disease risk in adults (Williams, 2010), the relationship between anger, lack of exercise, and health problems, especially coronary heart disease, merits more developmental exploration.…”

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“…Adolescent anger has also been linked with general health problems (Kerr & Schneider, 2008). Much research supports the link between anger problems and coronary heart disease risk in adults (Bleil, McCaffery, Muldoon, Sutton-Tyrrell, & Manuck, 2004; Williams, 2010). Elevated blood pressure in adolescence is an early biological precursor of essential hypertension and coronary heart disease (Ewart & Kolodner, 1994; Pankova, Alchinova, Afanaseva, & Karganov, 2010).…”

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A test of Spielberger’s state-trait theory of anger with adolescents: Five hypotheses.

Quinn¹,

Rollock²,

Vrana³

2014

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Spielberger’s state-trait theory of anger was investigated in adolescents (n = 201, ages 10–18, 53% African American, 47% European American, 48% female) using Deffenbacher’s five hypotheses formulated to test the theory in adults. Self-reported experience, heart rate (HR), systolic blood pressure (SBP), and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) responses to anger provoking imagery scripts found strong support for the application of this theory to adolescents. Compared to the low trait anger (LTA) group, adolescents with high trait anger (HTA) produced increased HR, SBP and DBP, and greater self-report of anger to anger imagery (intensity hypothesis) but not greater self-report or cardiovascular reactivity to fear or joy imagery (discrimination hypothesis). The HTA group also reported greater frequency and duration of anger episodes and had longer recovery of SBP response to anger (elicitation hypothesis). The HTA group was more likely to report negative health, social, and academic outcomes (consequence hypothesis). Adolescents with high hostility reported more maladaptive coping with anger, with higher anger-in and anger-out than adolescents with low hostility (negative expression hypothesis). The data on all five hypotheses supported the notion that trait anger is firmly entrenched by the period of adolescence, with few developmental differences noted from the adult literature.

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A test of Spielberger’s state-trait theory of anger with adolescents: Five hypotheses.

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Rollock²,

Vrana³

2014

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“…One such individual difference is hostility, which involves a core emotional component of anger, in addition to behavioural (e.g., aggression) and cognitive (e.g., cynicism, mistrust, suspiciousness) components (Williams, 2010), and has been established as an important risk factor for CVD (Everson et al, 1997). Several studies indicate that hostile persons display low levels of social support and high levels of social conflict (Houston and Kelly, 1989;Scherwitz et al, 1991;Smith and Frohm, 1985), with others reporting that high hostiles do not derive the usual cardiovascular benefits from laboratory-based support (Chen et al, 2005), displaying exaggerated CVR to self-disclosure (Christensen and Smith, 1993), support provision, and receipt (Holt-Lunstad et al, 2008).…”

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Cardiovascular responses to mental activation of social support schemas

Creaven

Hughes

2012

International Journal of Psychophysiology

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“…Furthermore, intentionally elicited frustration (by a research assistant, for instance) has been found to increase state hostility [6] as well as state anger and affective aggression [7,8]. Anger and aggression are often closely tied in questionnaire studies of traits [9], and their underlying physiology [10] and neurochemistry [11] are merged. Therefore, in this article we will address anger and aggression and their neural correlates mostly together.…”

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Anger under Control: Neural Correlates of Frustration as a Function of Trait Aggression

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Antisocial behavior and aggression are prominent symptoms in several psychiatric disorders including antisocial personality disorder. An established precursor to aggression is a frustrating event, which can elicit anger or exasperation, thereby prompting aggressive responses. While some studies have investigated the neural correlates of frustration and aggression, examination of their relation to trait aggression in healthy populations are rare. Based on a screening of 550 males, we formed two extreme groups, one including individuals reporting high (n=21) and one reporting low (n=18) trait aggression. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) at 3T, all participants were put through a frustration task comprising unsolvable anagrams of German nouns. Despite similar behavioral performance, males with high trait aggression reported higher ratings of negative affect and anger after the frustration task. Moreover, they showed relatively decreased activation in the frontal brain regions and the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) as well as relatively less amygdala activation in response to frustration. Our findings indicate distinct frontal and limbic processing mechanisms following frustration modulated by trait aggression. In response to a frustrating event, HA individuals show some of the personality characteristics and neural processing patterns observed in abnormally aggressive populations. Highlighting the impact of aggressive traits on the behavioral and neural responses to frustration in non-psychiatric extreme groups can facilitate further characterization of neural dysfunctions underlying psychiatric disorders that involve abnormal frustration processing and aggression.

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Anger/Hostility and Cardiovascular Disease

Cited by 24 publications

References 65 publications

A test of Spielberger’s state-trait theory of anger with adolescents: Five hypotheses.

A test of Spielberger’s state-trait theory of anger with adolescents: Five hypotheses.

Cardiovascular responses to mental activation of social support schemas

Anger under Control: Neural Correlates of Frustration as a Function of Trait Aggression

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