The influence of hostility and family history of cardiovascular disease on autonomic activation in response to controllable versus noncontrollable stress, anger imagery induction, and relaxation imagery

Journal of Behavioral Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 213-221

  Nelson, Charles ^a   Franks, Susan ^a,b   Brose, Andrea ^a   Raven, Peter ^a   Williamson, Jon ^c   Shi, Xiangrong ^a   McGill, Jerry ^a,b   Harrell, Ernest ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c University of Southwestern Allied Health Sciences School   (United States)

Author keywords

Anger imagery; Autonomic activation; Cardiovascular disease; Hostility; Relaxation; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGER; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENETIC TRAIT; HOSTILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION; POWER SPECTRUM; RELAXATION TRAINING;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANGER; AROUSAL; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HOSTILITY; HUMANS; IMAGERY (PSYCHOTHERAPY); MALE; PERSONALITY; RELAXATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 21644452409     PISSN: 01607715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10865-005-4657-y     Document Type: Article

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