Health-Damaging Personality Traits and Verbal-Autonomic Dissociation: The Role of Self-Control and Environmental Control

Health Psychology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 451-457

  Contrada, Richard J ^a   Czarnecki, Eileen M ^b   Pan, Richard Li Chern ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cardiovascular reactivity; Control; Emotional defensiveness; Performance challenge; Pressured drive

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CONTROL; DEFENSE MECHANISM; DRIVE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; STUDENT; TYPE A BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; AROUSAL; DEFENSE MECHANISMS; DRIVE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; RISK FACTORS; STUDENTS; TYPE A PERSONALITY;

EID: 0031228660     PISSN: 02786133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-6133.16.5.451     Document Type: Article

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