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Personality, emotional adjustment, and cardiovascular risk: marriage as a mechanism.

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Smith, TW; Baron, CE; Grove, JL
Published in: J Pers
December 2014

A variety of aspects of personality and emotional adjustment predict the development and course of coronary heart disease (CHD), as do indications of marital quality (e.g., satisfaction, conflict, strain, disruption). Importantly, the personality traits and aspects of emotional adjustment that predict CHD are also related to marital quality. In such instances of correlated risk factors, traditional epidemiological and clinical research typically either ignores the potentially overlapping effects or examines independent associations through statistical controls, approaches that can misrepresent the key components and mechanisms of psychosocial effects on CHD. The interpersonal perspective in personality and clinical psychology provides an alternative and integrative approach, through its structural and process models of interpersonal behavior. We present this perspective on psychosocial risk and review research on its application to the integration of personality, emotional adjustment, and marital processes as closely interrelated influences on health and disease.

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J Pers

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1467-6494

Publication Date

December 2014

Volume

82

Issue

6

Start / End Page

502 / 514

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Stress, Physiological
  • Socioeconomic Factors
  • Social Support
  • Social Psychology
  • Social Adjustment
  • Self Concept
  • Risk Factors
  • Personality
  • Marriage
  • Male
 

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Smith, T. W., Baron, C. E., & Grove, J. L. (2014). Personality, emotional adjustment, and cardiovascular risk: marriage as a mechanism. J Pers, 82(6), 502–514. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12074
Smith, Timothy W., Carolynne E. Baron, and Jeremy L. Grove. “Personality, emotional adjustment, and cardiovascular risk: marriage as a mechanism.J Pers 82, no. 6 (December 2014): 502–14. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12074.
Smith TW, Baron CE, Grove JL. Personality, emotional adjustment, and cardiovascular risk: marriage as a mechanism. J Pers. 2014 Dec;82(6):502–14.
Smith, Timothy W., et al. “Personality, emotional adjustment, and cardiovascular risk: marriage as a mechanism.J Pers, vol. 82, no. 6, Dec. 2014, pp. 502–14. Pubmed, doi:10.1111/jopy.12074.
Smith TW, Baron CE, Grove JL. Personality, emotional adjustment, and cardiovascular risk: marriage as a mechanism. J Pers. 2014 Dec;82(6):502–514.
Journal cover image

Published In

J Pers

DOI

EISSN

1467-6494

Publication Date

December 2014

Volume

82

Issue

6

Start / End Page

502 / 514

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Stress, Physiological
  • Socioeconomic Factors
  • Social Support
  • Social Psychology
  • Social Adjustment
  • Self Concept
  • Risk Factors
  • Personality
  • Marriage
  • Male