Type A Personality

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A caution on the use of the MMPI K-correction in research on psychosomatic medicine. 
  • Accentuated vagal antagonism of beta-adrenergic effects on ventricular repolarization. Evidence of weaker antagonism in hostile type A men. 
  • Aerobic exercise reduces levels of cardiovascular and sympathoadrenal responses to mental stress in subjects without prior evidence of myocardial ischemia. 
  • Age differences in self-perceptions of type A traits. 
  • Angina pectoris in type A and type B cardiac patients. 
  • Anxiety-proneness and coronary heart disease. 
  • Behavioral approaches to secondary prevention of coronary heart disease. 
  • Behavioral assessment of the type A behavior pattern. 
  • Biobehavioral basis of coronary-prone behavior in middle-age men. Part II: Serum cholesterol, the Type A behavior pattern, and hostility as interactive modulators of physiological reactivity. 
  • Biobehavioral basis of coronary-prone behavior in middle-aged men. Part I: Evidence for chronic SNS activation in Type As. 
  • Biobehavioral research on cardiovascular disorders. 
  • Caffeine and cholesterol: interactions with hostility. 
  • Cardiovascular and emotional responses in women: the role of hostility and harassment. 
  • Cardiovascular effects of caffeine and stress in regular coffee drinkers. 
  • Cardiovascular responses in the laboratory and in the natural environment: is blood pressure reactivity to laboratory-induced mental stress related to ambulatory blood pressure during everyday life? 
  • Clinical correlates and prognostic significance of type A behavior and silent myocardial ischemia on the treadmill. 
  • Components of Type A, hostility, and anger-in: relationship to angiographic findings. 
  • Development of a brief self-report measure of the type A (coronary prone) behavior pattern. 
  • Differential glycemic response to stress in type A and type B individuals with IDDM. 
  • Effect of Type A behavior on exercise test outcome in coronary artery disease. 
  • Effects of aerobic exercise training on hemodynamic responses during psychosocial stress in normotensive and borderline hypertensive type A men: a preliminary report. 
  • Exercise training in healthy type A middle-aged men: effects on behavioral and cardiovascular responses. 
  • Facial expression and the affective component of cynical hostility in male coronary heart disease patients. 
  • Family history of hypertension influences neurobehavioral function in hypertensive patients. 
  • Gender differences in blood pressure control during a variety of behavioral stressors. 
  • Interpersonal Hostility Assessment Technique: description and validation against the criterion of coronary artery disease. 
  • Neurobiology, cellular and molecular biology, and psychosomatic medicine. 
  • Personality, type A behavior, and coronary heart disease: the role of emotional expression. 
  • Physiological responses to catecholamine infusions in type A and type B men. 
  • Prospective study of perceived stress in cardiac patients. 
  • Psychobehavioral treatment in cardiac rehabilitation. 
  • Psychological factors in coronary artery disease: epidemiologic evidence. 
  • Psychological predictors of heart disease: a quantitative review. 
  • Psychological risk factors in coronary artery disease. 
  • Psychological variables in hypertension: relationship to casual or ambulatory blood pressure in men. 
  • Psychosocial factors in hypertension. 
  • Refining the type A hypothesis: emergence of the hostility complex. 
  • Rehabilitation of patients following myocardial infarction. 
  • Relationship of job strain to standard coronary risk factors and psychological characteristics in women and men of the Family Heart Study. 
  • Relationships among age, sex, the type A behavior pattern, and cardiovascular reactivity. 
  • Reliability of interview-assessed hostility ratings across mode of assessment and time. 
  • Serum lipids, neuroendocrine and cardiovascular responses to stress in healthy Type A men. 
  • Social dominance and 22-year all-cause mortality in men. 
  • Social support, type A behavior, and coronary artery disease. 
  • Stimulus-specific patterns of cardiovascular reactivity in type A and B subjects: evidence for enhanced vagal reactivity in type B. 
  • The Cook-Medley hostility scale: item content and ability to predict survival. 
  • The inhibited power motive, type A behavior, and patterns of cardiovascular response during the structured interview and Thematic Apperception Test. 
  • The relationships between dimensions of hostility and cardiovascular reactivity as a function of task characteristics. 
  • The type A behavior pattern, physical fitness, and psychophysiological reactivity. 
  • Type A behavior and angiographically documented coronary atherosclerosis in a sample of 2,289 patients. 
  • Type A behavior and survival: a follow-up study of 1,467 patients with coronary artery disease. 
  • Type A behavior pattern and blood glucose control in diabetic children. 
  • Type A behavior pattern and chronic glycemic control in individuals with IDDM. 
  • Type A behavior, family history of hypertension, and cardiovascular responsivity among black women. 
  • Type A behavior, nonverbal expressive style, and health. 
  • Type As who think they are type Bs: discrepancies between self-ratings and interview ratings of the type A (coronary-prone) behaviour pattern. 
  • Usefulness of ischemic response to mental stress in predicting silent myocardial ischemia during ambulatory monitoring. 
  • Validity of the type A construct: a reprise. 
  • [Psychiatric and behavioral aspects of cardiovascular disease: epidemiology, mechanisms, and treatment]. 
  • [Psychosocial factors in coronary heart disease -- scientific evidence and recommendations for clinical practice]. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Dodge, Kenneth A., William McDougall Distinguished Professor of Public Policy Studies, Duke Science & Society