Type-D personality mechanisms of effect: The role of health-related behavior and social support

Type D personality and illness perceptions in myocardial infarction patients

“…believing that a treatment will be less effective could lead to medication non-adherence [13]). These findings on illness perceptions fit with previous research that has identified a relationship between Type D and unhealthy behaviour [10], and medication non-adherence [13] illness perceptions were measured using the Brief IPQ and it remains to be determined if similar findings would result using the full IPQ-R. Third, the participants represented a non-consecutive sample; however, we do not believe that this had an impact in terms of selection bias, as the same inclusion criteria were applied to all potential participants. Finally, it may also be considered a limitation that we have not assessed the potential moderating effects of depression and anxiety on the relationship between Type D and illness perceptions.…”

“…Behavioural mechanisms which may explain the negative effect of Type D on clinical outcome include engaging in an unhealthy lifestyle [10], sub-optimal consultation behaviour with medical staff [11,12], and poor adherence to medication [13].…”

Type D personality in Poland: Validity and application of the Polish DS14

“…Previously, the utility of the construct has been examined primarily in the Western European context, including in Belgian, Dutch (Denollet, 1998), Danish (Pedersen & Denollet, 2004, German (Grande, Jordan, Kummel, Struwe, Schubmann, Schulze et al, 2004, and Italian (Gremigni & Sommaruga, 2005) (Williams, O'Connor, Howard, Hughes, Johnston, Hay, et al, 2008). Only recently was the construct also examined in the Ukraine (Pedersen, Yagensky, Smith, Yagenska, Shpak & Denollet, 2009), but only in a healthy sample.…”

Type D personality and hemodynamic reactivity to laboratory stress in women

“…Although indirect mechanisms have been proposed (e.g., Thomas et al, 2006;Brostrom et al, 2007;Schiffer et al, 2007;Williams et al, 2008;Hausteiner et al, 2010), it is possible that psychophysiological pathways involving Type D's affect dimensions might be implicated in Type D-health relationships. The separate components of the Type D personality have shown associations with biological indices of health; NA has been linked to higher levels of cortisol during the day (Van Eck et al, 1996;Miller et al, 1999) and cortisol reactivity to laboratory tasks (Phillips et al, 2005;Sher, 2005), while behavioral inhibition has been associated with a larger cortisol awakening response and larger response to stress in young children (Kagan et al, 1987) and with mechanisms of behavioral inhibition in a small sample of healthy female adults (Tops and Boksem, in press).…”