Defensive coping and blood pressure reactivity in medical patients

Journal of Behavioral Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1989, Pages 407-424

  Warrenburg, Stephen ^a,b   Levine, Jacob ^a,b   Schwartz, Gary E ^a,b   Fontana, Alan F ^a,b   Kerns, Robert D ^a,b   Delaney, Richard ^a,b   Mattson, Richard ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

blood pressure; cardiac; coping; defensiveness; denial; Marlowe Crowne

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DENIAL; HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL DESIRABILITY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AROUSAL; BLOOD PRESSURE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; DEFENSE MECHANISMS; DENIAL (PSYCHOLOGY); EPILEPSY; HUMAN; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; REPRESSION; SELF CONCEPT; SICK ROLE;

EID: 0024850638     PISSN: 01607715     EISSN: 15733521     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00844875     Document Type: Article

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