Type D personality is associated with increased desire for alcohol in response to acute stress

Williams, Lynn; Bruce, Gillian; Knapton, Cindy

doi:10.1002/smi.2800

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“…15 Williams et al reported Type D individuals exhibited significantly higher levels of desire for alcohol during the acute stress and recovery phases, compared to non-type D individuals. 16 Williams et al suggested that type D individuals might be motivated to consume alcohol in order to cope with stressful situations. 16 Therefore, type D dental students should be provided more emotional and psychological supports to prevent depression and alcoholism among them.…”

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A cross sectional study to find out the prevalence of type D personality and its associated factors among undergraduate students of a dental college in western Uttar Pradesh

Kumar

Kaur

Bansal

et al. 2019

Int J Community Med Public Health

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Background: An individual personality is reflected in their thoughts, emotion and behavior. Type D personality is defined as joint tendency towards negative emotions and social inhibition. Type D personality is associated with anxiety, depression and psychological stress. The present study is conducted to assess the incidence of Type D personality in the under graduate dental students as they are prone to excessive stress in their education. To study the prevalence Type D personality in first year dental students and to study the various variables associated with type D personality.Methods: The personality of students was analyzed by using DS 14 questionnaire. Likert scale was used to calculate the personality score. The students scoring high on either or both subscales taking cut off value as 10 was considered as type D.Results: 15% students had only social inhibition and 7% students had only negative affectivity. 5% students had both social inhibition and negative affectivity. Overall, the prevalence type D personality was found to be 27% among the students of dental college. The type D personality students were significantly associated with habits like alcoholism.Conclusions: The early identification of Type D personality can be helpful both for physical and mental wellbeing and we can minimize its impact on health by adopting healthier life style, yoga and meditation, mentorship in early college days, emotional support etc.

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“…16 Williams et al suggested that type D individuals might be motivated to consume alcohol in order to cope with stressful situations. 16 Therefore, type D dental students should be provided more emotional and psychological supports to prevent depression and alcoholism among them.…”

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confidence: 99%

A cross sectional study to find out the prevalence of type D personality and its associated factors among undergraduate students of a dental college in western Uttar Pradesh

Kumar

Kaur

Bansal

et al. 2019

Int J Community Med Public Health

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“…One could argue that the scores were meancentered and the authors forgot to report it, but there are in fact several reasons to assume that raw scores rather than centered scores were used. First, several studies report the correlations between NA, SI and their product score [26,31,33]. If NA and SI would have been mean-centered before multiplying them, these raw scores would barely correlate with their multiplication.…”

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“…However, in some of these studies the bivariate correlation between both traits and the dependent measure were reported. For instance, Williams and colleagues [33] showed that the product of NA and SI was positively correlated with alcohol dependence. However, the bivariate correlations also indicate a significant positive correlation for SI with alcohol dependence, while the correlation with NA is very weak and not statistically significant.…”

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A systematic review comparing two popular methods to assess a Type D personality effect

Lodder

Kupper

Antens

et al. 2021

General Hospital Psychiatry

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Introduction: Type D personality, operationalized as high scores on negative affectivity (NA) and social inhibition (SI), has been associated with various medical and psychosocial outcomes. The recent failure to replicate several earlier findings could result from the various methods used to assess the Type D effect. Despite recommendations to analyze the continuous NA and SI scores, a popular approach groups people as having Type D personality or not. This method does not adequately detect a Type D effect as it is also sensitive to main effects of NA or SI only, suggesting the literature contains false positive Type D effects. Here, we systematically assess the extent of this problem. Method: We conducted a systematic review including 44 published studies assessing a Type D effect with both a continuous and dichotomous operationalization. Results: The dichotomous method showed poor agreement with the continuous Type D effect. Of the 89 significant dichotomous method effects, 37 (41.6%) were Type D effects according to the continuous method. The remaining 52 (58.4%) are therefore likely not Type D effects based on the continuous method, as 42 (47.2%) were main effects of NA or SI only. Conclusion:Half of the published Type D effect according to the dichotomous method may be false positives, with only NA or SI driving the outcome.

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“…However, with regard to people with alcohol addiction, some researches have found the link between personality type D and addiction (16,17). This stress-prone personality is characterized by negative affect and social inhibition.…”

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Type D Personality, Stress Level, Life Satisfaction, and Alcohol Dependence in Older Men

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Alcohol consumption among older adults is becoming an increasing public health problem due to the rapidly growing elderly population. There is a theory that Type D personality is positively correlated with alcohol dependence. The study aimed to assess the style of coping with stress, emotions and anxiety in elder men addicted to alcohol and the relationship between the above. The study included 170 men aged 60 years and older (mean age - 63 ± 3.1 years) addicted to alcohol staying in the Department of Alcohol Addiction Therapy for Men. They were tested with the questionnaire sheet and the following scales: Perceived Family Wealth (PFW), Family Affluence Scale (FAS), Cantril's Ladder of Life Scale, Satisfaction with Life Scale, Type D Personality Scale-14 (DS14), and the 10-item Perceived Stress Scale (PSS-10). The respondents' wealth on a scale of 1–5 points was assessed on avg. 3.1 ± 0.2. The above was confirmed by the results of the FAS scale study, where the respondents obtained an average of 3.9 ± 1.9 (min. 1, max. 8), which proves their average level of affluence. The evaluation of the satisfaction with life using Cantril's Ladder showed that the respondents were also satisfied with life on average (on average 5.5 ± 1.9). The assessment of life satisfaction using the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) scale allowed for the conclusion that the respondents were very dissatisfied with their lives (mean 17.2 ± 4.9). The evaluation of the measurement of perceived stress (PSS-10 scale) showed that the respondents obtained an average of 23.5 ± 3.7, and on the sten scale, a mean of 7.7 ± 0.98, which proves a high level of perceived stress. The study using the DS14 scale showed that the respondents were in the negative emotionality (NE) subscale - 17.4 ± 4.5 points, and in the HS scale - 16.2 ± 3.2, which proves that they can be classified as a Type D personality. The participants were very dissatisfied with their lives, with a high perceived stress and Type D personality.

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Type D personality is associated with increased desire for alcohol in response to acute stress

Cited by 7 publications

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A cross sectional study to find out the prevalence of type D personality and its associated factors among undergraduate students of a dental college in western Uttar Pradesh

A cross sectional study to find out the prevalence of type D personality and its associated factors among undergraduate students of a dental college in western Uttar Pradesh

A systematic review comparing two popular methods to assess a Type D personality effect

Type D Personality, Stress Level, Life Satisfaction, and Alcohol Dependence in Older Men

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