Hostility, anger-in, and cardiovascular reactivity in white women

Health Psychology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 200-208

  Powch, Irene G ^a,b   Houston, B Kent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder   (United States)

Author keywords

Anger in; Cardiovascular reactivity; Hostility; Stress; Women

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ANGER; CORONARY DISEASE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HOSTILITY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNITED STATES; WOMEN;

EID: 0030137202     PISSN: 02786133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-6133.15.3.200     Document Type: Article

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