Workday communication and ambulatory blood pressure: Implications for the reactivity hypothesis

Psychophysiology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 86-94

  Brondolo, Elizabeth ^a   Karlin, William ^a   Alexander, Kwame ^a   Bobrow, Amy ^a   Schwartz, Joseph ^b  

^a ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambulatory monitoring; Blood pressure; Cardiovascular; Communication; Reactivity; Work site

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

ADULT; AFFECT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANGER; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING, AMBULATORY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COMMUNICATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLICE; POSTURE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; WORK;

EID: 0032899522     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0048577299961565     Document Type: Article

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