Psychological predictors of heart disease: A quantitative review.

Booth-Kewley, Stephanie; Frıedman, Howard S.

doi:10.1037/0033-2909.101.3.343

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“…Using metaanalysis techniques to examine the relationship between personality and cardiovascular disease Booth-Kewley and Friedman (1987) found considerable statistical evidence for the concept of type A personality over a 30-year period. Other researchers have found that expressed hostility, a major attribute of the type A behavior pattern, is considered to be more pathogenic.…”

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Life-time history of suicide attempts and coronary artery disease in a community-dwelling elderly population

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Life-time history of suicide attempts and coronary artery disease in a community-dwelling elderly population

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“…Negative emotions other than anger have been widely studied over the past decade, and the findings resolve prior debates (Booth-Kewley & Friedman, 1987;Matthews, 1988;Stone & Costa, 1990). In a meta-analysis, Booth-Kewley and Friedman (1987) concluded that symptoms of depression and anxiety predict CHD.…”

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“…In a meta-analysis, Booth-Kewley and Friedman (1987) concluded that symptoms of depression and anxiety predict CHD. This conclusion was criticized (Matthews, 1988;Stone & Costa, 1990) as based in part on "soft" or less definitive CHD endpoints (e.g., chest pain).…”

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Psychosocial influences on the development and course of coronary heart disease: Current status and implications for research and practice.

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Ruiz²

2002

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

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Psychosocial characteristics predict the development and course of coronary heart disease (CHD). In this review, the authors discussed human and animal research on psychophysiological mechanisms influencing coronary artery disease and its progression to CHD. They then reviewed literature on personality and characteristics of the social environment as risk factors for CHD. Hostility confers increased risk, and a group of risk factors involving depression and anxiety may be especially important following myocardial infarction. Social isolation, interpersonal conflict, and job stress confer increased risk. Psychosocial interventions may have beneficial effects on CHD morbidity and mortality, although inconsistent results and a variety of methodological limitations preclude firm conclusions. Finally, they discussed implications for clinical care and the agenda for future research.Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of death in the United States; each year about 450,000 people die from CHD, and 1,000,000 experience an initial or recurrent coronary event (American Heart Association, 2001). Among healthy 40-year olds, between 40% and 50% of men and between 25% and 35% of women will later develop CHD (Lloyd-Jones, Larson, Beiser, & Levy, 1999). Over $100 billion is spent on CHD each year in the United States in direct medical costs, disability payments, and lost productivity (American Heart Association, 2001). This disease involves the three major topics composing behavioral medicine and health psychology, making it a central focus throughout their 30-year history. In the first (i.e., health behavior and prevention), modifiable behavioral risk factors (e.g., smoking, activity level, diet) are important risk factors for the development of CHD (Stamler et al., 1999;Wannamethee, Shaper, Walker, & Ebrahim, 1998), and behavior change is an essential component of prevention. In the second topic (i.e., stress and disease or psychosomatics), other psychological and social factors have more direct effects on the development and course of CHD through the intervening psychobiological effects of stress and negative emotions. In the third (i.e., psychosocial aspects of medical illness and care), established CHD has extensive emotional and social impacts on patients and their families, behavior is a key element of standard care (e.g., medication adherence, dietary change, exercise), and psychosocial interventions are useful additions to traditional medical and surgical treatment.Like the article on CHD in the previous special issue on behavioral medicine in this journal (Thoresen & Powell, 1992), we focused primarily on the second major topic-psychosocial influences on the development and course of CHD. We also reviewed one aspect of the third topic-interventions targeting psychosocial risk factors and their underlying psychophysiological mechanisms. Perhaps the most important implication of research on psychosocial risk factors for coronary disease is that interventions targeting these factors could reduce cardiac morb...

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“…). In a current review and meta-analysis of studies conducted between 1945 and 1984 that linked personality variables with CHD, Booth-Kewley and Friedman (1987) concluded that the CHD-prone individual is characterized by "one or more negative emotions," rather than as a "hurried, impatient workaholic" (p. 343).…”

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Arousal and physiological toughness: Implications for mental and physical health.

Dienstbier

1989

Psychological Review

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From W. B. Cannon's identification of adrenaline with "ftght or flight" to modern views of stress, negative views of peripheral physiological arousal predominate. Sympathetic nervous system (SNS) arousal is associated with anxiety, neuroticism, the Type A personality, cardiovascular disease, and immune system suppression; illness susceptibility is associated with life events requiring adjustments. "Stress control" has become almost synonymous with arousal reduction. A contrary positive view of peripheral arousal follows from studies of subjects exposed to intermittent stressors. Such exposure leads to low SNS arousal base rates, but to strong and responsive challenge-or stressinduced SNS-adrenal-medullary arousal, with resistance to brain catecholamine depletion and with suppression of pituitary adrenal-cortical responses. That pattern of arousal defines physiological toughness and, in interaction with psychological coping, corresponds with positive performance in even complex tasks, with emotional stability, and with immune system enhancement. The toughness concept suggests an opposition between effective short-and long-term coping, with implications for effective therapies and stress-inoculating life-styles.Confrontations with stressors and challenges evoke central and peripheral physiological arousal. Characterizations of that peripheral arousal traditionally have been negative, but some modern views are more positive. After providing some definitions, I discuss the apparent contradictions between literatures whose basis is an assumption of the harmfulness of peripheral physiological arousal and those whose basis is not. DefinitionsAccording to Folkman and Lazarus (1985), the term stress implies "a relationship between the person and the environment that is appraised by the person as relevant to his or her well-being and in which the person's resources are taxed or exceeded" (p. 152). As components of stress, Folkman and Lazarus described threat as "potential for harm or loss," challenge as "potential for growth," and harm-loss as "injury already done" (p. 152). However, because I often emphasize the differences between challenge, on the one hand, and threat and loss, on the other, I use the term challenge separately, using stress to capture only the components of the concept associated with threat and harm/loss.

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Psychological predictors of heart disease: A quantitative review.

Cited by 744 publications

References 47 publications

Life-time history of suicide attempts and coronary artery disease in a community-dwelling elderly population

Life-time history of suicide attempts and coronary artery disease in a community-dwelling elderly population

Psychosocial influences on the development and course of coronary heart disease: Current status and implications for research and practice.

Arousal and physiological toughness: Implications for mental and physical health.

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