Personality Tests

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "John Henryism" and blood pressure in a Dutch population. 
  • A Social Environment Inventory for the pediatric office. 
  • A test of the tridimensional personality theory: association with diagnosis and platelet imipramine binding in obsessive-compulsive disorder. 
  • Application of artificial neural networks to a study of nursing burnout. 
  • Behavioral and cerebrovascular effects of caffeine in patients with anxiety disorders. 
  • Behavioral assessment of the type A behavior pattern. 
  • Concerns about measuring "spirituality" in research. 
  • Congruence of personality and life events in depression. 
  • Daily moods and symptoms: effects of awareness of study focus, gender, menstrual-cycle phase, and day of the week. 
  • Development of a brief self-report measure of the type A (coronary prone) behavior pattern. 
  • Development of experimental mood induction procedures for testing personality-event interaction models of depression. 
  • Diagnosing depression in patients with medical illness. 
  • Endogenous and non-endogenous depressions: relations to life events, dysfunctional attitudes and event perceptions. 
  • Exercise training in healthy type A middle-aged men: effects on behavioral and cardiovascular responses. 
  • Gender differences in blood pressure control during a variety of behavioral stressors. 
  • Hostile attributional biases in severely aggressive adolescents. 
  • Pain beliefs: assessment and utility. 
  • Perceived control, drive for thinness, and food consumption: anorexic tendencies as displaced reactance. 
  • Personality, type A behavior, and coronary heart disease: the role of emotional expression. 
  • Pervasive and situational hyperactivity--confounding effect of informant: a research note. 
  • Psychiatric syncope: a new look at an old disease. 
  • Psychological and neural mechanisms of trait mindfulness in reducing depression vulnerability. 
  • Psychological inflexibility predicts PTSD symptom severity in war veterans after accounting for established PTSD risk factors and personality. 
  • Psychological predictors of glucose control in patients with IDDM. 
  • Psychological predictors of heart disease: a quantitative review. 
  • Psychophysiological interactions between caffeine and nicotine. 
  • Relations of trait depression and anxiety to low lipid and lipoprotein concentrations in healthy young adult women. 
  • Social support in older individuals: the role of the BDNF Val66Met polymorphism. 
  • Symptoms of interpersonal sensitivity in depression. 
  • The Cook-Medley hostility scale: item content and ability to predict survival. 
  • The effects of age and sex on depression ratings in children and adolescents. 
  • The pediatrician as gatekeeper to mental health care for children: do parents' concerns open the gate? 
  • The relationship between cigarette smoking and chronic low back pain. 
  • The relationships between dimensions of hostility and cardiovascular reactivity as a function of task characteristics. 
  • Type A behavior and angiographically documented coronary atherosclerosis in a sample of 2,289 patients. 
  • Who gets treated? Factors associated with referral in children with psychiatric disorders. 
  • Women's attributions of responsibility for date rape: the influence of empathy and sex-role stereotyping. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Dodge, Kenneth A., Pritzker Professor of Early Learning Policy Studies, Duke Science & Society