Social relationships and ambulatory blood pressure: Structural and qualitative predictors of cardiovascular function during everyday social interactions

Health Psychology

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 388-397

  Holt Lunstad, Julianne ^a   Uchino, Bert N ^b   Smith, Timothy W ^b   Olson Cerny, Chrisana ^b   Nealey Moore, Jill B ^b  

^a BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b 1024 SWKT ^*

Author keywords

Ambivalence; Ambulatory blood pressure; Cardiovascular functioning; Diary study; Health; Social relationships

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBIVALENCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; CHRONOLOGY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMOTION; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZATION; RATING SCALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SPOUSE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; SYSTOLIC HYPERTENSION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING, AMBULATORY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0041624161     PISSN: 02786133     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-6133.22.4.388     Document Type: Article

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