Development and preliminary testing of a brief intervention for modifying CHD-predictive hostility components

Journal of Behavioral Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 203-220

  Gidron, Y ^a   Davidson, K ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

antagonism; coronary heart disease predictive; hostility; intervention; mortality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ANGER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AGGRESSION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CORONARY DISEASE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HOSTILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERSONALITY TESTS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SAMPLING STUDIES; TYPE A PERSONALITY;

EID: 0029870418     PISSN: 01607715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01857766     Document Type: Article

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